Fourteen roofers, one ute to start with.

Nate Corrigan started Stormbird in 2011 with a ute and one apprentice, in the months after the January 2011 Brisbane flood.

There was more work than roofers, and a lot of it was being done badly. Nate's idea was simple: get on the roof, take photos of what's wrong, and give people a fixed price in writing. Fifteen years later there are 14 of us, all on the payroll, and Bec runs the office.

The name comes from the eastern koel. In Queensland people call it the storm bird, because its call arrives just before the summer rain.