Rapid expansion of Amalgamated Roofing in the period from 1999 – 2001 saw the company move twice: from a building adjoining Dimond and then in 2002 developed purpose built workshops in Vaughan Road. An extension to the office has recently been added. Rotorua, with a staff of 27, serves the Bay of Plenty, Waikato and the King Country but Donald has never been afraid of working out of town. Slowly the work started to spread further afield – Ohakune, Pukekohe, Levin, Mt Ruapehu, Taupo, New Plymouth, Palmerston North.

In 2003 Donald and Maria started another company in Hastings serving Hawkes Bay and Manawatu. Hastings Manager Jeff Moulder (formerly a self employed contractor and ex AHI Taupo) had moved back to Hawkes Bay, Donald got to hear and they worked out a plan to make it work.

Hastings currently has 15 staff but on completion of a re-roofing job at the Napier port, numbers will drop back to eight. Hastings branch is an Ardex approved installer of Butynol® in Hawkes Bay.

Jeff says the branch has progressed rapidly because there was a tried and tested formula coming from Rotorua to expedite.

In the wake of leaky homes Jeff says that while architects are dictating how roofs should be fixed, builders are relying on roofing contractors increasingly to find answers to problems in relation to E2/AS1 that will ensure the job is signed off by the BCA. In the residential area the architectural style has become a lot more difficult and Amalgamated Roofing prides itself on being able to find answers to problems.