Restoration-first commercial roofing across Western Pennsylvania · Call 814-720-1081
Restoration-first commercial roofing across Western Pennsylvania · Call 814-720-1081
Commonly 10,000 to 80,000 sq ft
Single-ply with dense rooftop equipment
Work done by other trades on the roof
Ceilings, IT and somebody’s desk
A suspended ceiling hides water until enough has accumulated to stain or drop a tile. By then it has been tracking across the deck, the insulation and often the conduit for a while.
That is why chasing the stain rarely works on an office building, and why the entry point has to be traced from above rather than guessed at from below.
HVAC technicians, telecoms installers, window cleaners and solar contractors all get on the roof, and most of them are not thinking about the membrane.
Walkway pads, proper curb details and telling other trades that unapproved work affects the warranty is a large part of keeping an office building’s flat roof watertight. See our maintenance program.
Offices are full of equipment, records and electronics under a suspended ceiling that hides the leak until it is substantial. A small roof fault becomes an expensive interior claim.
In leased office space the roof gets judged by how many complaints reach the manager. A slow leak is a reputational problem for the building before it is a structural one.
Units, condensers, conduit and cabling, plus whichever contractor was last up there. Other trades on the roof are the leading cause of new leaks in this building type.
Everything on the roof photographed and located, including recent work by other trades, which is usually visible and usually the cause.
Moisture scanning concentrated over server rooms, records storage and anywhere a leak would be expensive rather than annoying.
Access, deliveries and the noisier stages agreed with the building manager. Most of the work is quiet, but not all of it.
Every penetration reinforced, field coated to spec, warranty registered, and a documented record the building manager can hold on to.
Minimally. There is no tear-off, so the loud and dirty stages of a roof project do not happen. We agree the schedule with the building manager and route access away from entrances.
Yes, and we would insist on it. That area gets scanned and detailed regardless of what the rest of the roof needs, because the cost of being wrong there is not a roofing cost.
That is extremely common and it is worth solving structurally. Walkway pads to the units, proper curb detailing and a note to other trades about the warranty terms usually ends it.
Water tracks along decking and conduit before it drops, so the stain is rarely under the entry point. That is a trace job, and it is exactly what commercial roof repair is for.
Usually yes. Commercial flat roof restoration is less dramatic economically than on a warehouse, but the disruption argument is stronger, because there is no version of a tear-off that a working office does not notice.
Not sure which of these applies to your building? Call 814-720-1081 and describe it.
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