The short answer
Flat and low-slope roofing in Carbondale covers the porch, addition or commercial section that shingles were never designed for. These roofs need a membrane system, properly terminated flashings, and drainage that actually moves water off the roof.
Almost every flat-roof leak we are called to has one of three causes: shingles installed on a slope too low to shed water, a membrane whose seams or terminations have failed, or drainage that ponds water in one corner until it finds a way in.
Low-slope roofs are unforgiving in a different way than steep roofs. Water sits instead of running, so every seam, edge and penetration is a potential entry rather than a place water passes over. The detail work at parapets, curbs, scuppers and drains is the whole job.
Around Carbondale this comes up constantly on additions, sunrooms, flat porch roofs on older houses, and small commercial buildings downtown and along the highway corridors.
When to call us
- Standing water on the roof a day after rain
- Leaks over an addition, porch or sunroom
- Blisters, splits or open seams in an existing membrane
- Shingles installed on a slope shallower than they should be
- Ponding at a drain, scupper or interior corner
- A commercial section leaking into a tenant space
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What the work actually involves
Here is how a flat and low-slope roofing job runs in Carbondale, start to finish.
Slope and drainage survey
Where water goes now, and where it needs to go.
System selection
Membrane appropriate to the geometry, traffic and exposure.
Tear-off and substrate repair
Wet insulation and rotted deck removed rather than covered over.
Detail work
Parapets, curbs, drains, scuppers and penetrations flashed and terminated correctly.
Water test
Because on a low slope you verify rather than hope.
Where we do this work
Carbondale, Murphysboro, Marion, Herrin, Carterville, Anna, Du Quoin, Benton, West Frankfort, Harrisburg, Chester, Vienna, Metropolis and the towns between them.
Flat and Low-Slope Roofing questions
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