Commercial Roofing Services in Covington

Replacement makes sense when damage is spread across the roof instead of sitting at a few spots: wet insulation over large areas, seams opening along many laps, membrane shrinking off curbs and parapets, deck rust along many flutes, or metal panels rusted through across several runs. A moisture survey shows how much can stay.

A recover puts a new roof over the existing one; a tear-off removes everything to the deck. Kentucky’s reroofing rules bar a recover over a water-soaked or deteriorated roof, or on a building that already has two or more coverings. A recover still needs a cover board, and every wet area comes out first.

Tapered board has the slope cut in, laid with crickets behind curbs, saddles between drains, sumps at each bowl, and edge tapers toward scuppers. With the old roof off, replacement is the natural time to add it, and new insulation also has to meet the energy code level the permit office asks for.

Drains, scuppers, and edge metal all get reset because the new insulation raises the roof. Old drain bodies get inspected and replaced or fitted with retrofit inserts, primary scuppers get resized, and parapet roofs get overflow drainage checked so a clogged drain has another way out.

Crews tear off only what they can close by evening, check and replace deck, fasten insulation and cover board, install and flash the membrane, and seal the section with a tie-in. Debris goes down a chute or by crane, and metal roofs follow the same close-up-daily rule run by run.