Salomon Burgos

A Working Relationship That Began During South Florida’s Hurricane-Recovery Years

Salomon Burgos is a Service Foreman at Aastro Roofing Company, where he leads roof-repair, leak-investigation, maintenance, and service projects throughout South Florida.

Salomon joined Aastro Roofing Company around 2017, but his working relationship with Aastro President and Founder Jason Blair began more than a decade earlier.

Jason first met Salomon during the intense South Florida hurricane-recovery period of 2004 and 2005. Jason had recently relocated from Michigan to help meet the extraordinary demand for qualified roofing labor created by widespread storm damage.

At the time, Jason was helping manage a large commercial roofing project involving approximately 14 warehouse buildings in Oakland Park, Florida. Salomon approached Jason at the jobsite and asked whether he needed additional help.

Jason did. That brief conversation became the beginning of a professional relationship—and eventually a close friendship—that has continued for more than two decades.

Helping Build a South Florida Roofing Workforce

Salomon was one of the first local roofing professionals Jason hired after relocating to South Florida.

The opportunity quickly expanded beyond Salomon alone. Jason also hired two of Salomon’s brothers and later worked with additional members of his extended family, including nephews, cousins, and brothers-in-law.

Those relationships helped Jason build roofing crews capable of responding to the enormous amount of work created by the hurricane-recovery period.

The crews Jason brought from Michigan provided experience and immediate production capacity, but developing a sustainable South Florida operation also required local relationships and people who understood the region, climate, workforce, and construction environment.

Salomon and his family became an important part of that development. The working relationships established during those years would later become part of the foundation behind Aastro Roofing Company.

From El Salvador to South Florida

Salomon is originally from El Salvador and continues to maintain strong personal and family ties there.

He has also built much of his adult life in South Florida. For more than 20 years, Salomon has worked in the region, raised his family, and developed the practical roofing knowledge required to perform under South Florida’s demanding conditions.

South Florida roofing work involves intense heat, sudden rain, high humidity, tropical weather, wind-driven water, strict permitting, inspections, coastal exposure, and high-wind installation requirements.

Salomon’s experience was developed through years of performing roofing work in those conditions—not merely through classroom instruction.

He understands that a roofing system must be evaluated and repaired according to the building, roof type, age, installation history, surrounding conditions, and the actual path water may be taking into the property.

A Relationship Extending Beyond the Jobsite

Jason and Salomon’s relationship developed through years of working together on roofing projects, managing crews, responding to storms, solving field problems, and building lives in South Florida.

The relationship also created an important cultural and communication connection. Salomon and members of his family helped Jason learn Spanish.

That education did not take place in a formal classroom. It developed through daily work, jobsite conversations, crew coordination, family relationships, and the need to communicate clearly with Spanish-speaking employees and roofing professionals.

Learning Spanish helped Jason communicate more directly with crews and strengthened his ability to build relationships across Aastro’s workforce.

Over time, the relationship grew beyond employer and employee. After more than two decades of working together, Jason considers Salomon a close friend and part of the extended Aastro family.

Joining Aastro Roofing Company

When Jason founded Aastro Roofing Company in 2016, he was building an organization around relationships, reputation, training, supervision, documentation, communication, and accountability.

Salomon joined the Aastro team around 2017.

By that time, Jason had already worked with him for more than a decade and understood his character, experience, work habits, and practical roofing abilities. Salomon also understood Jason’s expectations.

Their shared history gave Salomon a strong foundation within the company, but his position at Aastro was not based solely on friendship or tenure.

He still had to learn and follow Aastro-specific procedures involving service-call documentation, repair photographs, customer communication, work-order requirements, safety, property protection, material use, repair limitations, quality-control review, and escalation to management when a condition exceeded the approved service scope.

Long-term familiarity created trust. Aastro’s systems created accountability.

Leading Roof-Repair and Service Work

As Service Foreman, Salomon leads crews responsible for diagnosing and correcting roofing problems on residential and commercial properties.

Service work differs from full roof replacement. A replacement project generally has an approved scope covering a large or complete roof area. A service call may begin with far less certainty.

The customer may report an active leak, an interior ceiling stain, damaged roof material, loose flashing, cracked or displaced tile, missing shingles, deteriorated sealant, ponding water, a penetration problem, storm-related damage, or recurring water intrusion that another repair did not resolve.

Salomon must evaluate the available evidence and help determine what can reasonably be addressed within the authorized repair scope.

That requires practical judgment. The visible symptom inside a building may not be located directly beneath the point where water entered the roof. Moisture can move through components of the building before becoming visible.

A responsible Service Foreman therefore cannot assume that the area above a ceiling stain is automatically the source.

Leak Investigation and Repair Evaluation

Salomon’s responsibilities include reviewing the customer’s reported concern, examining the roof area, identifying visible deficiencies, documenting conditions, and communicating what the service team discovers.

Depending on the roof and service request, he may evaluate pipe penetrations, vents, skylights, wall and roof transitions, valleys, roof edges, flashing, tile conditions, shingle conditions, membrane seams, drainage areas, rooftop equipment, previous repair materials, exposed fasteners, and deteriorated sealants.

The objective is not simply to apply sealant to the first visible opening. The objective is to identify a repair approach that has a reasonable relationship to the condition being reported.

Some service problems can be addressed through a defined repair. Other conditions indicate broader deterioration, multiple failure points, concealed damage, or an installation history that prevents a limited repair from providing a dependable long-term solution.

Salomon’s responsibility includes recognizing when the service team can proceed and when the condition should be documented and referred for additional evaluation, a larger repair proposal, or a roof-replacement discussion.

Performing Repairs Within an Approved Scope

Once a repair scope is authorized, Salomon organizes the work required to complete it.

That can involve confirming the repair location, reviewing materials and equipment, establishing safe roof access, protecting the surrounding property, removing damaged roofing materials, opening the affected area, evaluating the substrate or roof deck, replacing damaged components where authorized, installing compatible repair materials, addressing flashing or penetration details, resealing the repaired assembly, cleaning the work area, and documenting the completed repair.

Service work often requires technicians to integrate new materials into an existing roofing system. That requires an understanding of material compatibility and installation sequence.

A repair must not create another problem while attempting to correct the original one. The service team must consider how water will move, how the repaired area connects to surrounding materials, and whether the existing roof is capable of supporting the intended repair.

Roof Maintenance and Preventive Service

Salomon also supports Aastro Roofing Company’s roof-maintenance work.

Maintenance is different from waiting for a major leak to occur. A maintenance visit may involve reviewing vulnerable areas, correcting limited deficiencies, clearing debris, checking drainage, resealing selected components, documenting roof conditions, and identifying items that require additional authorization.

On commercial and multifamily properties, maintenance work may involve drains and scuppers, equipment curbs, penetrations, membrane seams, flashings, transitions, rooftop traffic areas, pitch pans, sealants, coping, perimeter conditions, and signs of moisture or deterioration.

Salomon helps ensure that the work completed during a maintenance visit remains within the authorized scope.

When the service team discovers a condition requiring more extensive work, the appropriate response is to document it and communicate it—not quietly expand the project without approval.

Documentation and Customer Communication

Roof repairs can be difficult for customers to evaluate because much of the work occurs in areas they cannot safely observe.

Photographic documentation helps make that work more transparent. Salomon and the service team are expected to document relevant conditions before, during, and after the repair.

That documentation may show the reported problem area, visible roof deficiencies, materials removed, exposed conditions, damaged components, repair preparation, installed materials, flashing or waterproofing details, and the completed repair area.

The photographs support internal review, customer communication, warranty records, future service history, and quality control.

Salomon also helps communicate with the customer or appropriate Aastro personnel when field conditions differ from what was initially expected.

Experience Supported by Continuing Training

Salomon has worked in roofing for decades, but Aastro Roofing Company does not treat experience as a substitute for continuing education.

Roofing products, repair materials, membranes, adhesives, sealants, safety requirements, documentation systems, and manufacturer instructions continue to change.

Salomon remains responsible for participating in training and reinforcement involving service procedures, leak investigation, roof-system compatibility, repair materials, manufacturer requirements, fall protection, ladder safety, property protection, documentation, customer communication, and Aastro’s internal service standards.

The company also maintains supervision and quality-control procedures for experienced employees.

Jason’s confidence in Salomon is based on a relationship extending more than 20 years. That confidence does not mean Salomon’s work is exempt from review. Aastro’s philosophy is that trust and accountability should reinforce one another.

A Foundation Built on Long-Term Relationships

Aastro Roofing Company was not built solely through contracts, advertising, equipment, or roofing products. It was built through people and relationships.

Salomon represents one of the longest and most important of those relationships.

He met Jason when Jason was still establishing himself in South Florida. He helped provide the labor and family connections required to respond to hurricane-recovery work. He helped Jason communicate more effectively in Spanish. He worked with Jason for years before Aastro existed and later became part of the company’s Service Department.

Their relationship has survived changing companies, economic cycles, storms, difficult projects, workforce changes, and more than two decades of life and business.

That history creates a level of mutual understanding that cannot be manufactured through a short hiring process.

Family, Heritage, and More Than Two Decades of Trust

Salomon has spent more than two decades building his life in South Florida. He is married, has raised a family in the area, and has children who grew up in the United States.

At the same time, he continues to maintain a strong connection to his family and heritage in El Salvador.

Salomon’s importance to Aastro Roofing Company cannot be measured only by the number of repairs he has completed. His larger contribution is the continuity he represents.

Jason met Salomon during the earliest years of his South Florida roofing career. They worked together before Aastro Roofing Company existed. Salomon and his family became part of Jason’s professional and personal life. He later joined Aastro and continued contributing through the Service Department.

Today, Salomon Burgos is a trusted Service Foreman, an experienced roofing professional, a close friend of the Blair family, and part of the long-term relationships that helped make Aastro Roofing Company possible.