Restoration-first commercial roofing across Western Pennsylvania · Call 814-720-1081
Restoration-first commercial roofing across Western Pennsylvania · Call 814-720-1081
Certification is not a sticker. It is the thing that makes a Conklin roofing warranty registerable against your roof, which is the difference between coverage from a manufacturer and a promise from a contractor.
Manufacturer coverage is registered against a system installed by an approved contractor to a specified thickness. Without certification you can have material that looks the same on a roof that carries no manufacturer warranty at all.
Certified work is inspected against a spec: preparation, detailing, reinforcement and mil thickness. That specification is precisely what a cheaper bid tends to shave, and it is invisible once the roof is finished.
Base coat, fabric reinforcement and top coat are designed to work together and are warranted together. Substituting a cheaper component for one of them ends the coverage for all of it.
The roof is cleaned and prepared to a standard, because adhesion is decided here and nowhere else. This is the step that gets skipped under time pressure.
Seams, fasteners and penetrations get fabric embedded into the base coat. It is most of the labor and nearly all of the longevity.
Applied to the specified mil thickness across the field rather than until the buckets run out, because that number is what the warranty is written against.
A real administrative step after the work, producing a document with your building on it. Ask to be sent it rather than told about it.
Conklin is an American manufacturer of roof coating and restoration systems, used on commercial roofs for decades. We are certified in their systems, which is what allows a Conklin roofing warranty to be registered against the roofs we finish.
They can buy similar materials. What they cannot do is register a manufacturer warranty against the finished roof. So you get a coated roof and a contractor’s word, which is worth exactly what the contractor is worth in year twelve. That is the whole argument.
It makes the specification non-negotiable, and the specification costs money: proper preparation, fabric at every detail, the full mil thickness. That is most of the gap between our bid and a cheaper one, and it is the part that decides whether the roof lasts three years or twenty.
Ask for it in writing and ask which specific systems it covers. Then ask for a copy of a registered warranty from a finished job, with the building’s details removed. A certified contractor produces both without hesitation.
You find out in year six, which is the worst possible time. Registration is a step somebody has to actually do after the job is finished. Ask for the document, keep it with your building records, and keep the maintenance records that go with it.
Still not sure which of these matter most for your building? Call 814-720-1081 and ask.
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