Commercial Roofing in Midlothian, TX
A stain spreads on a tenant's ceiling and nobody can say whether it is an open seam or soaked insulation. Commercial work begins the same way at Midlothian Roofing Co: one of our roofers up on the deck, reading it before anyone puts a price on anything.
What's really up there, before naming a system
Commercial roofing in Midlothian, TX covers more ground than a town this size usually hands it. Three cement operations work the limestone here, Martin Marietta, Ash Grove and Holcim, and Gerdau's steel mini-mill has run since 1975 with about 1,015 on site.
RailPort adds 1,700 acres: distribution centers, a Luminant power plant, a Google data center, and the Auto Park that processes Toyota and Mazda vehicles. Target's center alone runs 455 people. Around it sits everything the growth brought: strip retail, offices, apartment clubhouses, warehouses, schools.
Almost none of it wears shingles. A low-slope roof ages on a different clock than a pitched one, and hides the wear where nobody at ground level looks.
So a roofing brand that only knows shingles is no use here. Which system belongs on your building comes out of a documented inspection, not a catalog.
Which low-slope system belongs on your building?
Six sheets do most of the commercial work in this county. Here is what each one is made of and the kind of building it suits.
TPO
A white thermoplastic sheet heat-welded at the seams, reflective enough to send summer sun back off a newer retail or office building instead of into it.
EPDM
A black synthetic rubber membrane built for stamina rather than looks, which is why it runs across warehouse and light-industrial decks where nobody is judging the color.
PVC
Another welded sheet, picked for what it shrugs off: cooking grease, animal fat, and the exhaust that drifts across a restaurant kitchen roof and eats other membranes.
Modified bitumen
Reinforced asphalt sheets bonded in layers, tough enough to take boots week after week, so it lands on roofs where somebody is always up servicing equipment.
Built-up roof (BUR)
Tar and gravel built up in layers, heavy on purpose and slow to install, still holding up on plenty of the county's older commercial buildings on nothing but its track record.
Roof coatings
A silicone or acrylic layer rolled over a membrane that still has life in it, buying years for a fraction of a tear-off, but only on a roof that tests dry first.
Which of the six goes down gets settled on your own deck, by what a roofer finds walking it. If nobody has told you what is already up there, call and one of our roofers will go up and read it.
Repair, restore, or replace: the call that decides which
Three things can happen to a commercial roof that is giving trouble. The fourth row is how a roofer works out which of the three yours gets.
- 01Targeted repair
- One opened seam, a backed-up drain, loose flashing, a leaking curb
- 02Coating restoration
- A dry, sound membrane gets years added instead of a tear-off
- 03Full re-roof
- The system comes off when patching it again stops being honest
- 04How the call gets made
- Foot traffic, trapped moisture, deck condition, how long you hold the building
Permitting runs through the City of Midlothian's roof permit process on a commercial re-roof the same as it does on a house. If a storm is what put you here, the claim is yours to file, and what a roofer found up there is what it rests on.
From the read to a signed number
Getting a number on a commercial roof should not take the building offline. Three steps, in this order, and you keep operating through all of them.
The read
A roofer tests the insulation for trapped moisture, walks the deck, works every drain, seam, flashing and rooftop curb, and photographs what turns up with the date on it. That file exists before a price does.
The recommendation
Patch it, coat it, or replace it, with the reason attached and one figure for whichever way you go. Both land in front of you before a crew is booked.
The work, then the walk
The membrane goes down, or the repair gets made, to the figure you signed. Then the seams, flashings and drains get one more pass before anybody calls it finished.
What building owners ask before a flat roof goes on the schedule
A flat roof is budgeted long before it is replaced. These are what owners and property managers ask first.
Q1How do you know if a flat roof needs a full replacement or just a coating?
Q2Can hail damage a flat roof without it showing from the ground?
Q3Does a commercial roof need the building empty during the work?
Q4What is the difference between a manufacturer warranty and a workmanship warranty on a commercial roof?
Q5How long should a new commercial roof last?
Price your Midlothian commercial roofing
You should not have to guess which of the three your roof needs. Call it in or put the building address through the form, and a roofer grades the deck and comes back with one figure and the reasoning behind it. Nothing is owed for the visit, and there is nothing to decide on the spot.