The Modern story began in Adelaide, South Australia, with a steam cleaning business. Ron & Tina Bayley owned and ran Bramalco Steam Cleaning during the 1970s and specialised in residential and commercial properties operating from home and a small depot. A small part of the business at that time was in roof repairs, and in 1987 the directors developed more effective strategies to enable that part of the business to flourish.
In early 1988, Bramalco Pty Ltd was formed, so beginning South Australia’s newest and fastest growing business in the home improvements sector. The roof restoration business was born and quickly became the dominant part.
Over the next 5 years, drive and imagination saw rapid growth and diversification. The directors recognised the need for efficient, effective management at departmental level to ensure that effective delivery of product and service to the company’s growing customer base was maintained.
In 1992 a branch of Modern Roof Restoration was opened in Perth, Western Australia. Further expansion followed in 1994 with the introduction of Streamline Roller Shutters to the Perth operation. The combination of experienced Adelaide staff with the new and enthusiastic Perth team quickly ensured a successful Perth division of Modern.
By 1997, Modern Roof Restoration had added Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong and Central Coast NSW to its sphere of operations. A further multi-million dollar investment in South Australia provided a world class manufacturing facility for roller shutters and ensured leadership in the Australian roller shutter market. A shutter assembly facility was added to the Sydney operation to accommodate the largest state market.
Keen to ensure the highest product quality, Modern’s Roof Coatings Division employed an industrial chemist to oversee development and manufacture of coating products and to conduct ongoing research. Constant improvement is at the core of every Modern business division.
In 2006 Modern embarked on some intensive research to enhance the environmental qualities of our existing products, and along the way look into further products that every day Australians could install on their home to reduce their carbon footprint.
The results of this research were the launch of our heat reflective roof coating called Supablock™ and the release of our second generation Enviro Blind Roller Shutters – both of which provide fantastic thermal insulating qualities which assist to reduce reliance on heating and cooling.
But the real company growth came in the form of roof top solar electricity power systems (Solar PV). With this product Modern gave its customers the very real choice of using highly polluting and environment damaging conventional electricity OR replacing some (or all) of this with clean, green electricity straight from the sun and into their homes. Within 12 months of trading Modern Solar had quickly become bigger than Modern itself!
Today, Modern is an Australian market leader in Roof Restoration, Re-Roofing, Roller Shutters, Plantation Shutters, Louvre Shutters and Solar Electricity. Modern are proud members of many associations to ensure that we meet the high standards of Australian produced products.