J&S Construction

Sam Schrock | 715-701-6766

Sam Schrock, owner of J&S Construction, Bonduel, has expanded his offerings to include seamless gutters.
Schrock has been in the construction business for 15 years doing sheds and re-roofing.
“This was just another thing that goes with the construction that we can offer the customers as opposed to subbing it out,” Schrock said.
The gutters come in 5- or 6-inch widths and are produced from a machine he has in a trailer to take to job sites. The 6-inch is more of a commercial style, he said.
Before he added this new line and bought his machinery last fall, he got advice from others doing it to learn more.
“They all said it’s a green light – if you know construction, you know gutters too. Someday I hope my little boy is going to help me do this,” Schrock said, as he watched as his son Kevin scramble up a ladder leaning on the truck.
Sam can do a general estimate over the phone, but measuring at the potential job site provides a more accurate number.
“More exactly, if I go out and measure it, I can get you a much better number on it. Just call me. I’m more than happy to give (a customer) a quote or go out and look at it,” Schrock said.
He said 90 percent of his customers want metal roofs, “and guttering comes in right with that to get the water away from your building. And if you’ve got trees around the yard, you want to consider doing leaf guards, which I offer too,” Schrock said.
Gutters are necessary whether a customer has a steel or shingle roof.
“They both go hand in hand. The biggest thing is to get the water away from your building. It will save your foundation,” he said.
He started working with his brother Joe, the J in J&S, in 2018, and bought him out at the age of 24. The name had served them well and he kept it.
“I always said, why change a good name?” he said. “He had been going for (six years) and people knew his name, and if I started with a new name, it was going to be a new person again.”
Sam enjoys the work.
“I like taking old house roofs and making them look new, doing a neat trim job. It just makes me feel good, giving somebody a good roof,” Schrock said.
Guttering jobs can be done in as little as one day and he can get those scheduled quickly and match colors. Roofing or other construction jobs need more lead time.
“I usually try not to book myself too tight, and that’s one of the reasons, if somebody wants gutters and they want them in two weeks, I can be out there pretty fast doing it,” Schrock said.
His brother Jerry, one of four employees, has a rollform machine which produces roofing sections with a concealed fastener in his own business called Premier Rollforming.
“There’s an up-charge on that, but it’s definitely a better roof for your money,” Schrock said. “The roofing is all steel, and the guttering I can do in steel or aluminum.”
He has two other employees as well.
Tariffs have not caused big price increases or availability problems for him yet.
“So far, I have had no issues getting materials. Pricing all across the board went up a little bit but not dramatically,” he said.
His main territory is about a one-hour range, but he will travel beyond that.
“I just did one 2 hours and 15 minutes away from here. That’s a long haul, but we did it. Wherever the money is, that’s where we go,” he said.
His customers have been pleased with his work.
“Ninety-five percent of my work has been repeat customers and referrals,” he said. “My brother (Joe) started this company in 2018, and I still have people from his customers calling me to do more sheds and roofs. When it’s all said and done at the end of the day, the customer has got to be happy. That’s my number one goal – a happy customer, because if they’re not happy, I’m not happy.”
Sam has lived in the Bonduel area for the past 10 and a half years. Prior to that he had lived near Kingston, WI.
“That’s where I grew up, on an 80-acre farm,” he said.
He moved here to work with his brother in a new territory and met his wife here.
“I got married in 2020, and now I’ve got two little boys and a girl, so life is just great,” he said.
More change has been happening this spring as Schrock is moving to a new location about five miles from his former shop on Porter Road. The new address is W3857 County Road E, Cecil, where he plans to be soon. The phone number will continue to be 715-701-1766.
He wants to keep the company something he can continue to manage on his own but could see adding one or two more workers.
“I’ve got enough on my plate right now as far as keeping guys busy, and if I go too big, I’m afraid I’ll lose some quality,” he said.