Commercial Roofing in Hudson, WI

Flat and low-slope commercial roofs in Hudson — inspection, repair, recover, coating, and replacement.

Two of the Hudson buildings we were on this spring are below. Neither one was leaking when we walked it. That's not an accident, and it's the best argument we've got for getting on a roof before it makes you. The one walking it is usually Mose, the owner. More about American Eagle and how we work.

Two Hudson roofs this spring

200,000 square feet, and not a drop coming through

We inspect a two-building warehouse site in Hudson, about 200,000 square feet across both roofs.

The big building's roof is near the end of its life. It carries years of patches from whoever had it before us. And it isn't leaking.

That last part is why we're not selling a replacement. We're watching it. Every time we're up there we walk it looking for what's about to turn into a problem, and when we find something, we patch it and buy more time.

The smaller building was a different story — 50,000 square feet, and in much worse shape. That one we replaced this spring.

The owner didn't want both roofs landing in the same year. So we did the worse one first. That only works if somebody's actually telling you which roof is worse — and telling you when the answer is not yet.

The office building the HVAC crew flagged

A 40,000 square foot office building in Hudson. The owner had HVAC work done, and the crew that was up there said somebody ought to look at the roof, because it didn't look good from where they were standing.

They were right.

It's a ballasted roof — stone over membrane. In places the stone was gone or pushed out of position and the membrane was sitting bare. The edges weren't adhered well. Older patches were starting to come apart. There was storm debris up there.

Then the thing that decided it: there was no water damage underneath.

That's the difference between a roof job and a building job. We took the old rubber off and put a new membrane down, and the deck underneath was sound — because it hadn't started leaking yet. We fixed the slope in one spot by a drain while we were at it, so water leaves the roof instead of sitting on it.

The owner went ahead with it.

Wait another two years and that's a different conversation, with a different number on it.

What both of these have in common

Neither owner called us because water was coming through a ceiling.

One roof is old and patched and still dry, so we're keeping it alive. One looked rough from a service platform, so it got a new membrane and a drainage fix while the deck under it was still good.

That's the whole case for walking a roof on a schedule instead of waiting for it to tell you.