Roofs in Los Angeles, San Diego, and the surrounding Southern California regions, can be re-coated to extend the warranty originally provided in the final year of the warranty coverage. Some coating manufacturers offer five (5) year and ten (10) year extensions of warranty coverage. What is the value of warranty coverage? When all conditions are [...]
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Evaluating your soggy roof sandwich
An in-service flat (low-sloped) roof can be an ugly thing! These roofs are very common in Southern California. This roof evidences many types of what we roof inspector types call: failure mechanisms. The roof as it stands has been coated, in the past, with an aluminum asphalt emulsion. All flat roofs should be evaluated by [...]
Roof Removal or Salvage?
An existing Class A fire rated roof, in the greater Los Angeles, San Diego and surrounding Southern California areas, may be salvageable as part of a new protected membrane roof (PMR) assembly. The key to success is diagnostic testing by a professional third party roof consultant. This is a view of an existing roof in [...]
Roof Leaks caused by dish antennas
A typical mounting solution by an installer of dish antennas, in Southern California, is seen in these photographs. Each mounting bracket plate has (4) holes, through which pass (4) fasteners (bolts). These bolts penetrate through the roof material into a concealed wood nailer. The threads on the bolts allow precipitation to wick and funnel the [...]
Rooftop Mounted Equipment
Many buildings, especially in the greater Los Angeles and surrounding Southern California areas, use recessed flat roofs as locations for the HVAC service equipment. These wells are designed to screen from view at ground level, any unsightly service equipment. The flat roofing surrounding these units, in these crowded areas, eventually fails causing leaks. Unit vibration, improperly [...]
An Old San Diego Roof Gets Upgraded!
These photos show an AW Consultants clients roof in San Diego. The built up asphalt roof was nearly twenty (20) years old – leaking, radiating heat, and had completely failed. The bids the owner had to remove and replace this roof system (which was unnecessary) were very expensive. The owner was also concerned about the [...]
