TPO · Fully Adhered
75,000 sqft Cold Storage Facility
Sqft75K
System80-mil TPO FA
Timeline10 days
Membrane roof systems for warehouses, plants, distribution centers, and commercial buildings across NC, SC, GA, TN. We install and replace TPO, EPDM, built-up, modified bitumen, and coating-restoration roofs — certified applicators for Carlisle, Firestone, GAF, Johns Manville, and IKO. Line-item bid in about 36 hours.
A licensed PM has your request. We'll reach out within 24 business hours — typically sooner. If your roof is actively leaking, call (866) 487-8572 for same-day response.
Commercial flat roofing is a category, not a single product. Every low-slope commercial building — warehouse, manufacturing plant, distribution center, retail strip, office — carries a membrane roof rather than the shingles or panels used on steep-slope construction. The job of a flat-roofing contractor is to match the right membrane to the building, install it weather-tight, and detail the drainage and penetrations so the roof reaches its full warranted life. We carry all six low-slope systems and hold certified-applicator status with Carlisle, Firestone, GAF, Johns Manville, and IKO, so the recommendation is driven by the building rather than by which product we happen to stock.
The most common single-ply choice on commercial flat roofs is TPO — a white, reflective membrane with heat-welded seams that delivers strong cost-to-performance and cuts cooling load on conditioned buildings. EPDM rubber is the better call where rooftops see heavy foot traffic, where a ballasted assembly is wanted, or where cold-climate thermal cycling rewards EPDM's elasticity. For roofs with ponding history, heavy mechanical loads, or a specified redundant membrane, built-up roofing and modified bitumen lay down multiple plies that tolerate abuse. And when an existing membrane is still serviceable, a silicone or acrylic coating restoration renews it for 10–15 years and defers the cost and disruption of a full tear-off.
The deciding factors are rarely about the membrane alone. Drainage governs membrane life more than the membrane brand: where water ponds, we build tapered insulation to positive slope so the roof sheds to its drains instead of holding standing water that degrades any system. Insulation R-value is set to the applicable state energy code, structural deck capacity is verified before we add insulation depth, and every penetration, curb, and flashing is field-detailed to the manufacturer's standard so the NDL warranty actually holds. That discipline is the difference between a roof that reaches 25 or 30 years and one that leaks at year eight.
Installed commercial flat roofing runs roughly $6–14 per square foot across the Southeast — system, tear-off vs. recover, insulation depth, and rooftop complexity drive where a project lands. A coating restoration over a sound membrane is the lowest-cost path and defers a full replacement.
Every flat-roof replacement runs the same six-phase process, built around NRCA commercial standards and OSHA 29 CFR 1910.28 fall protection. The difference between a 20,000 sqft retail roof and a 400,000 sqft warehouse is phase count and crew size, not method — and a moisture scan up front always decides recover vs. tear-off before a single board goes down.
Drone survey plus on-roof walk to assess membrane condition, drainage, penetrations, and rooftop equipment. Infrared or electronic moisture scan and core samples establish whether insulation is wet and whether the roof can be recovered or must be torn off. Detailed line-item bid delivered in about 36 hours.
Recommend the flat-roof system that fits the building: TPO for cost and reflectivity, EPDM for traffic and thermal cycling, BUR or modified bitumen for redundancy and ponding, or a coating restoration for a serviceable existing membrane. Insulation R-value set to state energy code; tapered insulation specified where drainage is poor.
Commercial roofing permit filed with the county, including structural calcs for insulation load and code R-value compliance. Phased tear-off sequenced so no section is exposed to weather while the building operates below. Deck inspected, rotted sheathing replaced, fasteners verified before new system goes down.
Insulation board laid to target R-value; tapered packages built to drains where needed. Membrane installed per manufacturer spec — TPO heat-welded seams, EPDM seam-taped or fully-adhered, BUR/modified bitumen torch- or mop-applied. All flashings, curbs, and penetrations field-detailed to manufacturer standards.
Drains and scuppers re-set with new clamping hardware, HVAC curbs re-flashed, pipe and conduit penetrations sealed with manufacturer-spec boots. Every penetration documented in a photo log so the building owner has a complete as-built record for future service.
Final moisture scan confirms no trapped substrate moisture. Manufacturer NDL warranty registered (20–30 years by system). As-built drawings, penetration map, and a maintenance schedule delivered to the owner so the roof's full warranted life is protected.
TPO, EPDM, built-up, modified bitumen, and coating-restoration roofs on warehouses, plants, and commercial buildings across NC, SC, GA, TN. Phased tear-off, tapered-drainage builds, and NDL-warranted single-ply installs.
The first decision on any flat roof is recover, replace, or restore, and it's settled by the substrate, not by preference. Recover — a new membrane over the existing one — is allowed when there is no more than one existing layer and no widespread wet insulation; it saves tear-off and disposal cost but seals any existing problems underneath. Full tear-off is mandatory when the deck is compromised, when two roof layers already exist, or when an infrared survey shows saturated insulation, because recovering a wet roof voids the warranty and rots the deck. Coating restoration fits a roof whose membrane is still broadly sound: a silicone or acrylic coating renews it for 10–15 years. We run a moisture scan and core samples before recommending any of the three, because the wrong call here is the most expensive mistake an owner can make on a flat roof.
Most of our flat-roof work is on industrial and commercial low-slope buildings where operations continue underneath. We sequence tear-off and dry-in by zone so no section is exposed while the building runs, and we weatherproof every zone before crews leave the roof — critical for protecting inventory and production. See our work on manufacturing plant roofing, distribution and warehouse roofing, and cold-storage roofing, where reflective single-ply and high-R insulation directly cut the building's cooling and refrigeration load. Whatever the building, the deliverable is the same: a weather-tight, properly drained, manufacturer-warranted flat roof with a complete as-built record.
TPO, EPDM, built-up, modified bitumen, and coating-restoration roofs from 10,000 to 500,000 sqft. Moisture scan, line-item bid in about 36 hours, and NDL manufacturer warranty. NC, SC, GA, TN.