Roof was two feet thick

This roof was up to two feet thick in some areas!

We recently did one one BIG repair job, on a building in down town Oklahoma City. The roof is a rounded roof, with two walls on either side of the building. The drains on the roof had been clogged up and so the water was just pooling up. Of course this lead to leaks, and more leaks and worse leaks and lots of water damage.

As it seems, the answer to this problem for some repair guys, was to just keep adding more and more roofing materials, over the existing roofing materials. All this did was slow the leaks for a short time, but since the problem still existed. The leaks always came back, again and again and again.

We came in and tore out all the old roofing at the bottom of the roof and up the walls, which was nearly two feet thick in some places. Found the drains, cleaned them all out. Made sure they would do their job, then installed ISO board and TPO roofing.

Since the roof acts like a swimming pool, we basically put in a swimming pool liner.

The moral to this story?

Well, if the roof is leaking then chances are very good that adding more materials over old materials is not going to solve the problem. It may at best delay the problem, but eventually it will be back in full force.

If you have a leak, your best solution is almost always going to be tearing out the old materials and replacing the roofing. Something, like with this roof, you may want to use a different material more suited to your roofs specific situation.

Got leaks, we can fix them!

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