Roof Management – Protecting Your Roof Asset
Roof Analysis – Initial Inspection
A complete inspection is performed on the roof collecting data such as:
- Roof assembly consisting of type roof, roof deck, type of insulation, etc.
- Estimate life expectancy of type of roof systems.
- Wall coverings, termination points, metal flashing.
- Evaluate 3rd part installation of equipment items such as HVAC, skylights, vents, electrical junction boxes, signage boxes etc.
- Drawing – Scaled top view of the roof with equipment placement.
- Picture album of our original inspection.
The purpose for this information is for many reasons all needed in determining overall condition of roof and water tightness relating to the entire roof envelope. It also catalogs items of the roof so as to aid in determining new equipment installed or old equipment being removed as well as conditions of the roof establishing a timeline or starting place to evaluate wear and tear from year to year.
Budgets can be determined based on future replacement cost and maintenance needs.
Establishing a starting point helps understand how long and how much it will cost to manage you roof assets.
Maintenance and Repairs – Phase 1 –Bringing the roof up to baseline level
- Make all necessary repairs as found in our original inspection.
- Remove of weathered sealant at maintenance areas and apply new modified mastic with 3m granules broadcasted into wet mastic. ( This provides our base for phase 2 )
- Apply high performance acrylic coating to sound mastic work. Broadcast 3 m granules into wet coating.
- Clear debris from roof top.
Maintenance and –Phase 2- Bringing the roof up to serviceable condition
- Check sealants applied from year before.
- Apply high performance acrylic coating to all mastic work.
- Apply high performance acrylic caulk to areas where mastic has cracked.
The white coatings are more flexible then mastic and the white coating will help to prevent the drying out of the mastic and aid in prevention of cracking due to thermal shock. When cracking dues occur the caulk will bridge and seal the cracks with a compatible material making it easy to keep up in the future.
Maintenance – Basic yearly maintenance
Now that the roof is in serviceable condition all that is needed is to keep up with the foundation we have just created. Yearly pictures and overall inspection of the roof couple with the ability to create an accumulation of history of data will allow us to make important decisions as the roof ages in determining when replacement is truly necessary.
