Commercial Roofing in Pflugerville

TPO and low-slope membrane work for Pflugerville businesses, from the flex and warehouse buildings along the 130 corridor to the retail strips on FM 685 and Pecan. Licensed and insured, with an OSHA-certified crew and a lifetime workmanship warranty on every job.

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Low-Slope Roofs on Pflugerville Buildings

Most of the commercial roof in Pflugerville went on in the last twenty years, and a lot of it went on fast. The flex and distribution buildings that filled in along the 130 corridor are big single-membrane roofs put down on a construction schedule, with light manufacturing and warehouse tenants underneath them. The retail out on FM 685 and Pecan is a different animal: smaller footprints, more penetrations per square foot, and a curb every few feet for kitchen exhaust and rooftop units. Both are low-slope, both are usually TPO by now, and neither one gets looked at the way a house roof does.

That is the whole problem with a flat roof. It does not drip on you the week it starts failing. Water gets past a seam or a flashing, runs sideways under the membrane, wets the insulation, and sits there for months before a tenant sees a ring on the ceiling tile. By then the repair is not a seam, it is insulation and possibly deck. We would rather find that in March on an inspection than in June on an emergency call.

So the first visit is always the same. We get up there and find out what is installed, how old it is, and what shape it is in before anybody talks about scope. A ten-year-old membrane on a Pecan Street strip center and a big field roof off SH-130 do not get the same answer.

The Work We Take On Here

TPO and membrane systems. Heat-welded TPO is the working standard on low-slope roofs in this part of Travis County, and it is what we install and repair most. We spec thickness for the building rather than for the invoice.
Drainage correction. Ponding shows up on more Pflugerville roofs than anything else we see. Undersized drains, crushed insulation, and dead-flat field areas all hold water long after the storm has moved on.
Hail assessment on membranes. Hail damage on a membrane reads nothing like hail on shingles. We document it properly for the carrier.
Leak investigation. Water enters in one place and shows up in another. We trace the path instead of patching the ceiling stain from above.
Maintenance programs. Scheduled visits, written condition reports, photos. See our commercial roof inspections page.
Emergency leak calls. When a tenant is taking water in, we move. See our commercial roof leaks page.

Hail, Heat, and Water That Will Not Leave

Pflugerville sits on flat, open ground with the prairie north of town giving spring storms a clean run at the city, and the hail that lands here tends to be bigger than what falls up in the hills. On a commercial roof the damage lands in two places. The membrane takes bruising that fractures the reinforcement without opening a visible hole, and the rooftop units take the worse beating: bent condenser fins, split coil guards, cracked curb flashing, and torn duct wrap. Half the hail claims we work on out here started with a tenant complaining that the air conditioning quit, not that the roof leaked.

Then the water stays. Pflugerville rain arrives all at once, and a roof with drains that were undersized on day one, or that have been quietly collecting gravel and leaves ever since, holds standing water in the low spots for days. Ponding is the most reliable way to shorten a membrane’s life. It breaks down the sheet, feeds growth that holds even more water, and loads a deck that was never sized to carry it week after week. When we scope a reroof we look hard at where the water goes, because new membrane over the same bad slope ponds in the same places.

Heat does the slow damage. A dark membrane out here runs far hotter than the air on an August afternoon, then drops thirty degrees overnight, and every cycle pulls at the seams and terminations. That is the mechanical reason a roof welded and detailed well outlasts a rushed one by five or eight years.

Keeping the Doors Open While We Work

A restaurant on Pecan cannot close for a week and a distribution tenant off 130 cannot have a forklift aisle shut down, so scheduling is part of the job rather than an afterthought. We stage materials where they will not block a dock or a customer entrance, run the loud work around the hours you tell us to avoid, and dry the building in at the end of every shift so an overnight storm does not turn an open section into an interior loss. If your tenants need notice, we will get you the schedule far enough ahead that you can send it.

We hand the paperwork back with the building: photos, scope, membrane spec, warranty terms. That file is worth having the next time the roof comes up in a lease renewal or a capital budget. Every roof carries our lifetime workmanship warranty, and we include six years of annual weatherproofing afterward, which is us coming back to check seams and penetrations before they turn into claims. Call (432) 288-5562 or reach us at our contact page. For the wider service overview see our commercial roofing page and our project gallery.

Re-cover or Tear Off, Told Straight

When a Pflugerville membrane is worn out, there are two honest paths and we will tell you which one your roof is on. A re-cover lays a new membrane over the existing system. It is faster, quieter, cheaper, and far less disruptive to a tenant, and it is a legitimate answer when the insulation underneath is dry, the deck is sound, and the building has not already been re-covered once. A tear-off strips everything back to deck. It costs more and takes longer, and it is the only correct answer when the insulation is wet, the drainage needs to be rebuilt, or there is already a second layer up there.

We do not guess at that, because a re-cover over wet insulation buys you nothing. It seals the water in, the deck keeps corroding under a brand new roof, and in four years somebody pays for the tear-off anyway. So we open the suspect areas, check moisture in the insulation, and look at the deck where the membrane is compromised. On the big field roofs off SH-130 the condition is almost never uniform. One quadrant over a dock door can be finished while the rest has ten good years in it, and mapping that is how an owner avoids replacing membrane that did not need it.

Not every roof is at that decision yet. Plenty of what we do here is a half day of seam and flashing work that buys a sound membrane several more years, and we would rather do that and earn the reroof later. We wanted to do it the right way instead of trying to make a quick nickel, which on commercial work means the recommendation matches the roof. Our shop is twenty-five minutes west in Leander, so a building out here is a normal week for us. For the rest of what we do in town, see roofing in Pflugerville, along with metal roofing and storm restoration.

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Pflugerville Commercial Roofing FAQ

How often should a low-slope roof in Pflugerville be inspected?

Twice a year is the sensible rhythm here: once in spring ahead of storm season, once in fall after the summer heat cycling has worked on the seams. On top of that, get up there after any hail or high-wind event no matter what the calendar says. Call (432) 288-5562 to get on the schedule.

How long does TPO last on a building around here?

Fifteen to twenty-five years, depending on membrane thickness, seam weld quality, and whether small problems got handled early. The Central Texas sun is unforgiving, so a thin sheet or a rushed install lands at the bottom of that range. We spec for the building rather than for the cheapest number that passes code.

Can hail damage a membrane roof if there is no visible hole?

Yes, and that is the part owners get caught by. Hail fractures the reinforcement inside a TPO sheet and bruises the insulation under it without punching through, so the roof looks fine from the parking lot and leaks a year later. The rooftop units usually tell the story first, with bent fins and cracked curb flashing. We photograph all of it for the carrier.

Why does water sit on my roof for days after a storm?

Ponding, usually from drains that were undersized when the building went up, drains now packed with debris, or field areas where the insulation has compressed and there is no slope left. It is worth fixing on its own terms, because standing water shortens membrane life more than anything else up there.

Will you have to shut down my business to do the work?

No. We schedule around your hours, stage materials clear of docks and customer entrances, and keep the building dried in at the end of every shift. Restaurants and retail tenants on Pecan and FM 685 stay open while we work, and we will get you the schedule early enough to give your tenants notice.

Is a re-cover cheaper than tearing the old roof off?

It is, and it is faster and much less disruptive, but it is only the right call when the insulation under the old membrane is dry, the deck is sound, and the building has not already been re-covered. A re-cover over wet insulation traps the water and the deck keeps corroding under a new roof. We probe the suspect areas and check the moisture before recommending it, and on the larger 130-corridor roofs we map the condition by section, because one bad quadrant does not mean the whole roof is finished.