Roof Recover and Overlay in Denver

Roof Recover and Overlay for commercial buildings across Denver.

Before we scope a replacement on any Denver commercial building, we pull moisture cores from five to ten representative locations - drain pans, parapet corners, mid-field, and anywhere a facility manager has flagged interior staining. If more than 25 percent of those cores come back saturated, replacement is the right call. Recovering wet insulation in Denver's semi-arid climate can seem counterintuitive - the air is dry, so why does moisture matter? The answer is freeze-thaw. Denver's 90 to 110 freeze-thaw cycles per year turn trapped moisture in saturated insulation into an expansion-contraction engine that destroys the membrane bond, buckles the cover board, and accelerates deck corrosion on the pre-1990 light-gauge steel decks common in the DTC and Stapleton redevelopment districts.

If the wet count is under 25 percent, a recover with targeted wet-area tear-out can buy 15 to 20 years of additional life at roughly half the capital cost of full replacement - and that recommendation goes to you in writing with the moisture-core map attached. We also document deck condition through inspection ports under wet cores and at deflection points. Denver has significant commercial inventory from the 1970s and 1980s energy-sector office boom along 17th Street and the Lincoln Center corridor - buildings that are running first- or second-generation single-ply on light-gauge metal deck that needs deck assessment before any new system goes down.

Our project managers will walk the roof, pull moisture cores where the recover-vs-replace decision depends on it, and deliver a written scope detailed enough to bid against - including hail-resistance specification, snow load documentation, and cover board specification.