About

Sunshine Coast Ventilation Services. Shayne  leads a team of professionals, providing all aspects of roof ventilation services.

In addition to over 45 years of experience in this field, Shayne is a qualified & certified guttering & roofing specialist. Shayne began his roofing career in 1976 in Canberra, working for his father’s company, developing skills and learning the trade. After a few years, in 1980 aged 18 Shayne started his own roofing business, and has been self-employed ever since.

During the past 45 years, Shayne has continued to broaden his knowledge & skills by working internationally, including in the USA. Shayne relocated to the Sunshine Coast in 2010 for a change of lifestyle and in doing so reformed his brand to service the Sunshine Coast. *Add photo of Shayne, Ning & family – maybe near the beach? Something local/beachy*

 

COMPANY HISTORY

The Universal Tile Ventilator was invented by Shayne’s father, Kevin Baker - a roofer with over four decades in roofing of all types. Kevin has invented a number of products, all borne out of necessity - when presented with a problem from a customer, Kevin would set about solving it with a product that works!

In 1994 a huge condensation problem occurred in a new home in the suburb of Deakin ACT. After consultation with numerous experts without success, Kevin was called in. The task was to stop the condensation running down all of the walls in the 4.5-million-dollar home. To add to the condensation problem the homeowner did not want ugly protrusions sticking out of his roof, which automatically ruled out many of the products that were on the market at the time.

Kevin came up with a solution that was unobtrusive and worked amazingly; this was the predecessor to the Universal Tile Ventilator.

As most products available on the market were inferior to the Universal Tile Ventilator, Kevin sold his roofing business in 1999 to concentrate on his ideas and inventions to create superior products for roof ventilation, eventually starting the company Universal Tile Ventilators not long after.

In 2006 Universal Tile Ventilators won the New Inventors Award for both tile ventilators.

The products worked so amazingly the call was for a similar unobtrusive ventilator that could be used on a colorbond corrugated roof, this took some time and testing however knowing how roofs work Kevin came up with a similar product that works equally as well as the Universal Tile Ventilator using all the same principles of fluid dynamics only with a different concept for arrival.  The Smoothline Ventilator for corrugated colorbond roofs was conceived, one of the Top 10 Energy Saving Products in the 2009 Green Pages Directory.