For more than 20 years, Ryan DeBolt has been climbing roofs along with his team and ensuring their work is pristine.

Whether it is siding, windows, roofing or other home repairs, CombOver Contracting treats every home like it is their own. If DeBolt sees any mistakes on a job site, he will have his team make it right before the customer has a chance to see it.

“That’s just the way we do it,” DeBolt said. “When they come home and it’s sparkling and looks great, they’re going to be thinking of us in a good way.”

The family’s A/C “combing” business blossomed into a full-fledged operation over the past two decades, and it was recognized as the Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Month Award – an honor, in the words of DeBolt, recognizing the “award-winning haircut” the contractor provides for area homes.

The company was started by DeBolt and his wife, Heather, who manages the administrative side of the business.

Heather DeBolt said their work is the most rewarding upon completion of a project.

“Seeing the homeowner’s smile when they’re happy with the finished product,” means the world to the team, she said.

With a family-style culture and positive attitude, CombOver Contracting brings something special to the table when it comes to working with homeowners.

“The only thing we have to be serious about is the project,” Ryan DeBolt said. “Everyone that we’ve done business with, one of the main compliments we get is that we’re easy to work with.” When he first started CombOver, he said he enjoyed proving his worth against the competition. However, he also took time to enjoy the process of getting to know his clientele.

“My first appointment was kind of a ‘Tommy Boy’ story before it ever came out,” Ryan DeBolt said, noting that he loves meeting new people.

Seeing various people’s homes and being able to solve their problems continued to quench his passion for fixing things. The company began in siding and windows because, “back in the day you could just go over a leaky roof up to three layers, so that wasn’t really profitable,” he said.

“Usually, we’re buying someone else’s issue, because they weren’t really fixing a leak, they were putting another layer over it,” Ryan DeBolt said.

In 2008, CombOver Contracting began offering expanded services such as roofing, siding, window and gutters.

Working with CombOver is a different experience from larger companies because of sheer volume alone. With a larger construction firm, a contact might be working with three or four other people to complete a job.

“It’s really hard to get all four of those people to translate what the homeowner wants the same way,” Ryan DeBolt said. “Even on a good day, people translate things differently.”

This can create an annoying game of telephone, allowing details and homeowners’ desires to slip through the cracks. By choosing a smaller firm like CombOver, clients work with a single person who completes the project without losing track of what the homeowner wants to do.

The firm also will bring samples directly to a client at a job site.

“We will literally bring the showroom to them,” Ryan DeBolt said. “For anything that I’m trying to explain, I usually have a sample for it. It’s hard not to interpret what we’re doing in the same way because we’ve got all the samples to describe it to the homeowner.”

For more information on CombOver Contracting, visit comboverllc.com.