Commercial roof inspection, repair, recover, replacement and storm response in Bozeman, MT, planned around snow loads, thaw cycles, hail and cold limits.
Most roof calls in Bozeman, MT start with a building and one thing the owner noticed after winter: a drip at a dock, ice at the eave, a stain under a rooftop unit. The services here follow that order. Each one begins with what the roof does through a season, where it fails first and what the fix looks like, written so a facilities manager can decide without a second visit.
With a walk. A hands-on inspection walks the field, the drains and the details, and it is where a drift behind a parapet or an iced scupper gets noticed. An infrared moisture survey and core cuts show what the surface hides, and drone imaging helps on roofs too large or too steep to walk safely.
The order matters. A moisture scan before a bid keeps contractors pricing from the same facts, and a dated photo set gives an adjuster or a lender something to read later.
Water in the building comes first. Emergency roof repair dries the roof in at any hour, and leak repair traces the entry before material goes on. After that, planned repair deals with seams, flashing and punctures, and storm damage repair follows the hail and wind that have crossed the Gallatin Valley, including the golfball hail that fell on Bozeman in June 2010.
When core cuts show wet insulation across a wide area, repair stops paying. A recover can work if the insulation is dry and the structure can carry another layer, and replacement is the answer when it cannot. With around 91 inches of snow in a Bozeman year, the structure and the drainage get checked as carefully as the membrane.
By a plan before the freeze. Preventive maintenance clears drains, checks terminations and records what changed, and drain and scupper work keeps the way out open for meltwater through thaw cycles. A cold-weather adhesive window closes in the fall, so the best repairs get scheduled early.
Rooftop equipment, solar racks and skylights each add details that need their own check, which is why curbs and supports and skylight and penetration flashing get separate attention on the walk.
An inspection with core cuts. It tells you whether the roof needs repair, a recover or replacement before any money is spent on the wrong one.
We make roofs safe and dry them in year-round. Permanent work waits for temperatures that let adhesives and sealants cure.
We photograph the damage, cut cores where needed and write the repair scope so it can be compared with the carrier's estimate.
The work is the same. The exposure differs, since Belgrade took golf-ball hail and 89 mph gusts in August 2013, and we plan around it.