Our Story

The Oil Fields

Before Kory Peters and Johnny Peters ever set foot on a residential roof, they were welding steel on some of the largest industrial sites in North America. Both brothers are Red Seal Journeyman Boilermakers. They worked the Alberta oil sands: Suncor, Syncrude, MEG Energy, CNRL Kearl Lake. "Every site out there," as Kory puts it.

The oil fields aren't just a line on a resume. They shaped everything about how Fraser Roofing operates today:

• Professionalism: Show up right, act right, do the job right
• Management: Coordinating crews, materials, and timelines on massive projects worth billions
• Quality control: Zero tolerance for shortcuts. A bad weld can kill someone. That standard never left
• Safety: Real safety culture. Hazard assessments, fall protection, tie-offs, all ingrained, not just paperwork
• Punctuality: You don't show up late to a $10-billion job site
• Discipline: Dry camps, early mornings, focused work. No distractions, no excuses

Those billion-dollar oil industries rubbed off on the Peters brothers in a good way. The systems, the accountability, the relentless standards, all of it followed them home to British Columbia.

From Steel to Shingles

The transition started simply. Johnny's friend (a roofer back in BC) offered him work during time off from the oil fields. Johnny took it. Kory followed.

"As soon as I was on a roof, I was hooked. I loved it."

But it wasn't love at first step. Kory almost quit on day one.

The granules on fresh shingles, zero traction, nothing like the solid steel he was used to. The heat, sun beating down from above while the shingles radiated it right back up. A double oven. The angles, walking on a pitched roof while carrying bundles of shingles. Nothing natural about it. And the body, Kory was dealing with a lower back injury from snowboarding, carrying extra weight from years of camp food. That first day, he seriously considered walking away.

He didn't.

The Transformation

Within months, everything changed. The weight came off, climbing ladders, packing shingles all day was better than any gym membership. The back healed, the constant stretching, bending, and reaching turned out to be physio disguised as work. And the confidence grew.

Kory watched a younger coworker move fearlessly across steep pitches, walking on roofs like it was flat ground. What started as intimidation became inspiration. Fear turned into instinct.

"Once you understand the roof, you become a mountain goat on it."

Learning the Craft

Kory and Johnny didn't skip steps. They earned every skill the hard way:

1. Packing shingles70-pound bundles up ladders, across roofs, stacking in staging areas. Day after day. It's the foundation every roofer starts with
2. Ripping roofs: tearing off old shingles down to the deck, clearing debris, exposing the bones of the building
3. Always watching, always learning: standing behind experienced crews, studying their hand placement, their nail patterns, their speed. Eager to get the chance
4. Finally shingling: when the opportunity came, the boilermaker discipline was already embedded. "Doing everything right was deep in my blood from boilermaking. No low nails, no bad cuts, no shortcuts."

ten years of Roofs

Asphalt shingles. Metal roofing. Cedar shakes. Barns. The brothers worked every type of roof the Fraser Valley could throw at them. They subcontracted for local companies, worked as employees, learned the business side alongside the craft.

We have been roofing the Fraser Valley since 2016, most of that time on other companies' crews, which is where the trade was learned. Fraser Roofing Ltd. is the company we built after that, incorporated in 2026. Based in Chilliwack, BC, serving the entire Fraser Valley from Hope to Abbotsford and everything in between.

What Makes Them Different

Safety That's Not Just Talk

When you've worked on sites where a mistake means someone dies, safety isn't a poster on the wall. It's how you breathe. On a Fraser Roofing job site:

• Fascia boards are tied off before anyone steps on them
• Everything gets tied off, speakers, tools, water bottles. If it can fall, it's secured
• Tool lanyards on everything that could become a projectile
• Ladder tie-offs at the top, stabilized at the base
• Roof anchors driven into trusses, not just screwed into sheathing
• Ropes for lowering and lifting materials, controlled, not thrown

This isn't overkill. It's what responsible roofing looks like when the people doing it come from an industry where safety is survival.

The Physical Reality

Roofing isn't a trade you do from a desk. Kory and Johnny are transparent about what the work actually involves:

• Fiberglass embeds in your skin on hot days, the shingle granules work their way into every pore
• The roof surface becomes a sauna, heat from the sun above and radiant heat from below
• It's not a 9-to-5, you stay until the roof is watertight. Period. No homeowner sleeps with an open roof

"Packing shingles keeps me young."

Teamwork Is Everything

"We all get tired, so we all have to do our part." On a Fraser Roofing crew, planning is everything. Staging areas are mapped before the first bundle goes up. Material flow is organized so no one is waiting, no one is wasted. Crew positioning accounts for slope, sun exposure, and fatigue. It's coordinated like an industrial operation, because that's exactly what they learned to do.

Where Our Standards Come From

Both brothers are Red Seal Journeyman Boilermaker Fitters, ten-plus years in heavy industry before either of them ran a roofing crew. 600,000-barrel oil storage tanks. Towers, heat exchangers, boilers. Reading blueprints and fitting steam headers and piping for the TIG welders. On that work a weld either passes inspection or it gets cut out and redone.

A boiler and a roof are the same engineering problem. Both are envelopes that have to be continuous, and neither one leaks a little. One bad lap, one nail through the wrong place, one piece of flashing that was never installed, and water is inside the building, and it does not stay where it got in. Every square inch of a roof has zero tolerance for water, the same as a vessel holding pressure. That gets ingrained.

The difference is that in heavy industry somebody always checks. Every weld inspected, every joint signed off, a paper trail behind all of it, because a failure is measured in lives. Nobody X-rays a roof. Once the shingles are down a homeowner cannot see what is underneath them, and most never will, until it leaks. That is why Kory and Johnny still do the things nobody would catch them skipping: siding pulled back so ice and water shield goes in properly, new step flashing and kick-out flashing where the roof meets a wall, chimneys re-flashed instead of caulked, every detail to the manufacturer's published spec, and roofs loaded by crane on hand signals.

They came out of cost-type industrial work, paid to get it right and document it, not to get it done fast. Your roof is one of the most valuable assets you own and the only part of the house whose whole job is keeping weather off everything else. When it fails it does not fail alone; it takes sheathing, insulation, drywall and framing with it.

Why the Name Is Fraser Roofing

Because they are from here. Kory and Johnny were born and raised in the Lower Mainland, in the Fraser Valley, not a territory picked off a map, but the place they grew up and the place they still live and work, from Hope through to Abbotsford.

It is also the reason the name works as a commitment. A roofing company named after the valley cannot quietly move on from a bad job. They are going to run into you at the hardware store.

Just Getting Started

After ten years of roofs and Red Seal Boilermaker certifications that most roofers will never hold, Kory and Johnny still see themselves as growing. Not arrived. Not finished.

"We're only just getting started."

From their headquarters in Agassiz, BC, Kory and Johnny Peters continue to build Fraser Roofing one roof at a time, bringing oil sands discipline, boilermaker precision, and deeply personal pride to every home in the Fraser Valley.

Ready to see what Red Seal standards look like on your roof? Call Kory or Johnny at 604-728-0146 or email johnny@fraserroofing.ca for your free inspection.

Last updated: February 2026