Georgetown’s Commercial Roofing Contractor

Commercial Roofing for Georgetown Businesses

Georgetown’s commercial footprint has grown fast alongside the residential boom, from the mixed-use around the historic Square to the retail and office along the I-35 and Ronald Reagan corridors and the light industrial on the city’s edges. Those buildings mostly carry flat or low-slope roofs, and a flat roof is a completely different animal from the pitched roof on a house. Water does not run off it, it sits on it, so the membrane, the drainage, and the details at every penetration have to be right or the roof leaks. Plenox handles commercial and flat-roof work for Georgetown businesses with systems matched to the specific building rather than a one-size install.

What We Handle in Georgetown

Our commercial work covers new membrane installation, re-roofs, leak repair, and inspection programs across the flat-roof systems common in the area. We assess the existing assembly, the drainage, the rooftop equipment, and the way the building is used before we recommend a system, because a restaurant with heavy kitchen exhaust loads has different needs than a warehouse or a professional office.

• TPO membrane. A reflective single-ply system that cuts cooling load in Central Texas heat and welds into a monolithic surface with no field seams to fail.
• Modified bitumen. A durable multi-ply system suited to roofs with heavy foot traffic or complex equipment layouts.
• Flat-roof leak repair. Locating the actual source of a leak, which on a flat roof is rarely directly above the interior stain, and repairing the membrane and flashing correctly.
• Roof inspections. Scheduled assessments that catch ponding, seam separation, and flashing failure before they turn into interior damage.

Why Flat Roofs Fail in Central Texas

The reason a Georgetown commercial roof needs a contractor who understands flat systems comes down to how these roofs actually fail. The number one killer is ponding: water that does not drain because the roof lacks slope or because a drain is clogged or set too high. Standing water accelerates membrane breakdown, adds structural load, and finds every weak seam. The Central Texas sun then does its part, driving UV degradation and thermal cycling that works seams loose over time. And the rooftop itself is a hazard, because every HVAC unit, vent stack, and conduit penetration is a place the membrane has to be sealed, and penetrations are where most commercial leaks start. On a Georgetown building with a lot of rooftop equipment, the details at those penetrations matter more than the field of the roof.

What makes commercial leaks expensive is that they rarely show up where they start. Water enters at a failed seam or penetration, tracks along the deck or the structure, and appears as a ceiling stain somewhere else entirely. A repair aimed at the stain instead of the source fixes nothing, and the business keeps paying for the same leak. We trace leaks to the actual entry point and address the membrane and flashing there, which is the difference between a repair that holds and one that reappears after the next storm. For businesses that would rather prevent the problem, a scheduled inspection program catches ponding, seam separation, and flashing failure while they are still cheap to fix.

Georgetown’s commercial buildings age unevenly, and that shapes the work we do. The older retail and office near the Square carry roofs that have been patched by a string of previous owners, so the first job is often untangling what is actually under the membrane before we can spec a lasting fix. The newer construction along the I-35 and Ronald Reagan corridors tends to have larger, flatter roof planes with more rooftop equipment, which means more penetrations to seal and more attention to drainage. A restaurant, a medical office, and a warehouse each put different demands on the roof, and we match the assembly and the inspection schedule to how the building is actually used rather than handing every owner the same plan.

Rooftop Equipment and the Details That Leak

Georgetown’s commercial buildings, especially the medical offices near St. David’s and the restaurants around the Square and the outlet corridor, carry a lot of rooftop equipment. Every packaged HVAC unit, every kitchen exhaust fan, every gas line and conduit run is a hole cut through the membrane that has to be flashed and sealed. Those penetrations are where the majority of commercial leaks start, not the open field of the roof. A restaurant with heavy grease-laden exhaust puts a different kind of stress on the flashing than a professional office does, and grease that lands on a membrane will degrade it if it is not the right material for the job. When we scope a Georgetown commercial roof we count the penetrations and look hard at how each one is detailed, because a roof with fifty clean penetrations outlasts a roof with five bad ones.

Curbs and equipment supports are the other quiet failure point. When a rooftop unit is added or replaced years after the roof went on, the crew that set it does not always tie the new curb into the membrane correctly, and that gap sits there leaking slowly until a tenant notices a stain. Any time we are on a Georgetown roof for a leak or an inspection, we check the equipment curbs and the condensate lines, because a chronic drip from an HVAC condensate pan reads exactly like a roof leak from inside the building and gets misdiagnosed constantly. Tracing it to the actual source saves the owner from paying for a roof repair that was never going to fix the problem.

The Plenox Approach

We schedule commercial work around your operations so the business keeps running, and we back every commercial roof with our lifetime workmanship warranty. Whether the job is a full membrane replacement, a re-roof, a chronic leak, or an inspection program, we match the system to the building and stand behind the work. See our commercial roofing page, our commercial flat roofs page, and our commercial roof leaks service. View completed projects in our gallery. Call (432) 288-5562 or contact us for a free roof assessment.