Flat & Commercial Roofing in Fairhope, AL

Low-slope roofs fail at the seams, the penetrations, and the edge — never in the middle of the field. On the Greeno Road buildings that usually means HVAC curbs and the flashing around whatever equipment got added after the roof went on. Downtown, next to the Fruit & Nut District, it is more often the parapet cap and the transitions where an older building meets a newer addition — and on a building sitting that close to Mobile Bay, the parapet is the part taking the wind first.

Drainage comes before membrane, every time. Standing water is what turns a seam problem into a tear-off, so we look at where the water is supposed to go and whether it still gets there before recommending anything. A roof that ponds after every rain has a slope or a drain issue that a new membrane will simply cover up.

Recover or tear off is a real assessment, not a default answer. If the existing system is dry underneath, a recover is often the honest and cheaper call. If there is water in the insulation, a recover buries it and you pay for the roof twice. We show you what we found either way.

The residential half of this in Fairhope is the flat section on a house — the porch roof, the sunroom, the addition across the back. On a housing stock with a 1997 median build year, most of those additions are younger than the house they are attached to, which means the transition where the low-slope section ties into the main roof was cut in later, by somebody else, to a standard nobody recorded. Those tie-ins are small jobs with outsized consequences: they drain toward the house, and they are almost always where the interior leak is actually coming from.

Commercial work gets scheduled around a building that is still open for business. We are based in Fairhope, estimates are free, and you can reach us at (251) 342-4338.