Commercial Reroofing in Houston, TX

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• When a commercial roof has reached the end, reroofing is the decision
• Reroofing is what happens when patching stops being economical. At some point the repairs come too often, the membrane has lost its weathering layer, the insulation underneath is saturated, or a major storm has simply finished off a roof that was already tired. Reroofing replaces the roof system — sometimes the membrane and a fresh layer of insulation over the existing one, sometimes everything down to the structural deck. Getting that call right, and executing it cleanly on an occupied building, is the whole job.
• We reroof the flat and low-slope commercial buildings that make up so much of Greater Houston's building stock — the warehouses and distribution centers, the strip retail and shopping centers, the office and medical buildings, the manufacturing plants, and the industrial facilities along the Ship Channel. From the office towers of the Energy Corridor and the Westchase District to the retail centers around the Galleria and Uptown, to the sprawling logistics roofs out by the Port of Houston, these are large, exposed expanses of membrane that take the full force of the Gulf Coast climate. When they fail, they fail across a lot of square footage at once.
• Recover versus tear-off: how we make the call
• The first real decision in any reroof is whether you can recover the existing roof or whether it has to come off. We base that on what the roof tells us, not on which option is faster to sell.
• Roof recovery (overlay)
• A recover installs a new roof system directly over the existing one, avoiding the cost, disruption, and disposal of a tear-off. It is a strong option when the existing membrane is dry, the insulation underneath has not been compromised by trapped moisture, the deck is sound, and the building has not already used up the number of roof layers the code allows. A recover keeps the interior protected throughout, since the old roof stays in place as work proceeds — a real advantage over an occupied, climate-sensitive space. Before we recommend it, we verify the substrate is actually dry, because covering wet insulation only seals the moisture in to keep doing damage.
• Tear-off and full replacement
• When the insulation is saturated, the deck is corroded or rotted, the roof already carries the maximum permitted layers, or moisture scanning shows widespread wet areas, the right answer is a complete tear-off. We strip the roof to the deck, inspect and repair the structural substrate, install new insulation built to the proper slope and R-value, and lay down a fresh membrane system. It costs more and takes longer, but it resets the roof entirely and is the only honest choice when what is underneath is failing. After events like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, when standing water and wind-driven rain soaked the insulation in countless commercial roofs, full tear-off was frequently the only path that made sense.