Apartment & multifamily roofing in Houston

An apartment community rarely has just one roof. There are the apartment buildings themselves, a clubhouse and leasing office, maintenance shops, and on some properties covered parking or a pool building. Those roofs often went on in different years, from different contractors, in different systems.

On the low-slope and metal roofs, that can mean TPO and PVC, modified bitumen, built-up and metal panels, sometimes all on one property. Each one wears out on its own clock. Treating the property as one roof means either spending money on buildings with years left in them, or missing the one that is actually failing.

So we walk each building and look at its roof on its own terms. We can also estimate how much service life each roof has left, which is what a multi-year budget for the property needs. If you need that on paper for a purchase, a sale or a lender, that is a paid commercial roof inspection. The formal report gives a condition summary, photos of the issues and repair recommendations, and is usually sent within 48 hours.

The trouble spots on these properties tend to be where roofs meet walls and where equipment sits on the roof. On each building, that means looking closely at these:

Multifamily roof work happens over people's homes. Residents are in at all hours, parking is tight, and children, pets and patios sit right below the roof edge.

A repair is a small, local job. On bigger work, we open only as much roof as we can close the same day, and nothing is left open overnight. Over an apartment, an open roof and a Houston afternoon storm end with water in someone's living room.

Before the schedule is set, tell us where material and vehicles can go, which entrances and fire lanes have to stay clear, and where roof access is. Tell us too how much notice your residents need, so your notices go out in time with the work dates.

Roof access on apartment buildings is often a hatch in a top-floor hallway or a ladder in a stair tower. Tell us which, and whether reaching it means walking past residents' doors with tools and material. Where core samples are needed to check the insulation, each one is patched immediately, so no opening is left over anyone's home.

Where condensing units sit on the roof, their lines often run across it, and some sit on curbs too low to flash. We raise curbs, and lift gas and condensate lines onto supports, with the property's HVAC contractor.