Large-format retail and big box roofing across Greater Houston. Acre-scale TPO and coating reroofs, leak repair over live sales floors, and storm response in Harris County.

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• Big box and large-format retail roofing in Greater Houston
• A big box store is mostly roof. Behind the storefront sits an acre or more of flat membrane covering sales floors, stockrooms, and back-of-house, dotted with HVAC curbs, exhaust fans, skylights, and drains. When that membrane fails, the water does not just stain a ceiling tile. It lands on merchandise, soaks inventory in the stockroom, shorts out registers, and creates slip hazards in aisles full of shoppers. We roof large-format retail across Greater Houston and Harris County at the scale these buildings demand, and with the understanding that the store stays open the whole time.
• The retail stock here is enormous. Power centers and standalone big boxes line the major retail corridors, from the suburbs north and west of the city to the dense shopping districts near the Galleria. Many of these buildings date back decades and carry roofs that have already been patched, recoated, or partially replaced. Others are newer construction with single large membrane fields. We work on both, scoping each job to the building's real condition rather than a one-size assumption.
• What makes Houston hard on retail roofs
• The sheer size of a big box roof is what makes Houston's weather so punishing on it. A large flat field gives wind a lot of surface to grab, and Gulf Coast hurricane season regularly tests the edge metal, corners, and fastening patterns that hold a membrane down. Large hail finds every square foot at once, and on an aging membrane a single storm can leave thousands of bruises that turn into leaks over the following months.
• Then there is the water volume. When heavy rain stalls over Harris County, an acre of roof has to move an enormous amount of water to its drains in a short window. Undersized, clogged, or poorly placed drains let water pond across wide low areas, and ponding on a big box roof is relentless. Harvey in 2017 showed how fast these large flat roofs can be overwhelmed when drainage cannot keep up. On top of the storms, the constant heat and UV cook the membrane year-round, drying it out, opening seams, and degrading the surface long before the building owner expects to reroof.
• Common failure points on large retail roofs
• Ponding water in wide low areas between drains
• Hail bruising and splitting across the open membrane field