TPO Roofing in Overland Park, KS
Your building's white TPO roof will not tell you how much life is left in it.
Roof age, membrane type if known, and roof access.
Welding TPO roofing in Overland Park, KS into one continuous membrane
You're weighing a new membrane against a few more years out of the roof you already have, and from the parking lot a TPO roof tells you nothing. The seams settle it, and a seam shows where it stands long before a leak does.
TPO comes off the roll in wide sheets welded with hot air, so the field behaves as one continuous sheet. That's the strength of the system and where it gives out first: every rooftop unit and pipe is a hole cut through that sheet, and the stain in a tenant's ceiling usually starts at one of them. Our roofers know these Overland Park buildings, from the blocks south of I-435 that filled in after the mid-1980s to the older ground north along Metcalf, where a roof can already carry two systems.
The order an Overland Park TPO roof goes on
Each step waits on the one before it, so a bid that skips one has moved that cost somewhere else. How long the work takes follows the roof itself: a clean field goes quickly, and every curb, drain and parapet on a flat roof adds hand welding that cannot be hurried.
- ·Tear-off or recover board
- Either the old membrane comes off or a cover board goes over it. A core cut settles that.
- ·Insulation and tapered fill
- Polyiso board restores R-value, and tapered pieces move water toward the drains. Both are measured by area.
- ·Attachment method
- Plates and screws, or adhesive across the whole field. Wind exposure and deck type pick one.
- ·Field sheet layout and welding
- Layout is planned before the first sheet so the seams fall away from the water path, then a robot welder runs those same seams. Hand welding closes the details, and temperature is checked as the day warms.
- ·Flashings, terminations and edge metal
- Wherever the sheet stops it needs a hand-welded detail, and this is where most leaks begin. Curbs, pipes and drains each get one; a termination bar and edge metal lock the membrane down against uplift at every wall and edge.
- ·Seam probe and warranty registration
- A blunt probe is dragged along every weld to find voids. The manufacturer registers the system afterward.
A recover skips the tear-off and keeps everything after it, which is why a recover bid and a tear-off bid are not two prices for the same job.
Testing every weld before anyone signs the roof off
A finished TPO roof looks identical whether the welds hold or not. These checks are what tell them apart.
Our roofer takes core cuts through the roof you have now
No one can price a membrane job off a satellite image. The wet insulation under your old sheet is what turns a recover into a tear-off halfway through the work.
Test welds come apart by hand before the field goes down
Heat, wind and the temperature of the roll all move the setting on the welder. A weld tuned to the morning is the wrong weld by the middle of the afternoon.
Our roofer drags a blunt probe down the full length of every seam
A void hides a foot away from where the eye says the weld is perfect. The probe finds what the eye cannot.
You get the core-cut photographs and the probe results
Those photographs are what a second opinion reads later, and what the manufacturer wants before it issues system terms.
Clearing up what single-ply membrane roofing survives and what it does not
Owners ask these before choosing a membrane. In Johnson County what hail does to a single-ply sheet moves the choice more than price does.
What does hail do to a TPO roof?
What is the difference between TPO, EPDM and PVC?
How long does a TPO roof last?
Can TPO go over the existing roof?
Who warrants a TPO roof?
Telling us what the building does before anyone quotes a number
Tell us what the building does, who is under it, roughly how old the roof is, how somebody gets onto it, and which budget year the money sits in. Our commercial roofer for this metro prices what you send, and the figure that comes back is yours to carry into your next budget cycle. Sit with it until the budget cycle comes round.
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What a membrane job costs moves with the roof area, the layer count underneath and how much rooftop equipment sits in the way.
Use, roof age, and how someone gets on the roof.