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Written by Chris   
Saturday, 12 June 2004

This is a picture of my great great grandfather after installing a cedar shingle roof on a church in the late 1800's in Manistique Michigans Upper Peninsula.

I started workIng In my Grandfathers and Fathers roofIng business In 1979. My first job was a ground clean up person on a roof crew.
 
Eventually I advanced to a roofers position.I roofed wIth my Dad until 1988 when he retired. Then my Brother-in-Law and I continued the operations until 1992 when we went are separate ways.

At that time, I started C.S. ROOFING CO, LLC. CS is simply my Initials whIch stand for Chris Swearengin.

Roofing, although hard work, has always been a passion for me it takes dedicatIon to say that you have been in the same field for 29 years.

I just celebrated 16 years of runnIng my own company. All of us at CS Roofing take great pride in what we do and we treat every job as if it were our own home.

 

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