Commercial Metal Roofing Services
Standing seam, retrofit framing and restoration coatings for commercial metal roofs.
Commercial Metal Roofing Services
Metal suits commercial buildings with long ownership horizons. A standing-seam roof will typically run forty years or more, which changes the calculation for an owner-occupier or a long-hold landlord compared with a fifteen to twenty year single-ply system.
We also work on metal roofs that already exist, which is often the more useful service: an aging metal roof that is leaking at its fasteners and seams can frequently be restored with a coating system for a fraction of what replacement would cost.
Commercial metal work we do
- Standing-seam systems with concealed fasteners
- Retrofit framing to build slope over an existing flat roof
- Restoration coatings for aging but sound metal roofs
- Snow retention where roofs discharge over doors and walkways
- Edge metal, gutters and transition detailing
Retrofit framing over an existing roof
A flat roof that has never drained properly can be given a real slope by framing over it and installing metal on top. The old roof stays in place as part of the assembly, the drainage problem is solved by geometry rather than by patching, and the building gains insulation in the process.
It is not cheap, but on a building that has consumed repair budget for years because of standing water, it often costs less than the next two rounds of the current cycle.
Restoring rather than replacing
Older metal roofs usually fail at the fasteners and the seams rather than through the panels. A restoration system re-secures the fasteners, seals the seams and applies a coating across the whole roof, producing a renewed watertight surface without a tear-off.
This only works while the panels themselves are structurally sound. Where corrosion has gone through, replacement is the honest answer and we will say so.
Questions about commercial metal roofing services
Frequently yes, using retrofit framing. It is a common way to add slope to a flat roof that has never drained properly, and it avoids a full tear-off.
Forty years or more for a well-installed standing-seam system, with the finish rather than the metal usually being the first thing to show age.
Yes. Restoration coatings are often the most economical option on an aging metal roof, provided the panels underneath are still structurally sound.
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