St. Cloud, Minnesota
Local PVC Roofing in St. Cloud, MN
Grease, brick and an inspector's opinion all land on the same roof in St. Cloud, where downtown restaurants vent onto low slope decks over century old buildings and five locally designated districts, the Commercial District among them, mean the parts you can see from the sidewalk are not entirely your call. PVC handles the exhaust. The rest is detailing.
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Old decks, new membrane, and the district rules
Tear off downtown is an archaeology job. Under the current roof sits built up felt and asphalt, sometimes coal tar, laid over a wood deck that has been patched a dozen times. PVC cannot sit against any of it, so the old layers come off or get separated with new insulation, and the wood underneath gets replaced where the water found it. The restaurant roofs are the ones we watch. Kitchen row buildings share walls, and a fan discharging near the property line puts grease on somebody else's roof. Then there is the street view. In the Commercial District and the other four historic districts, the parapet, the coping and anything visible from the street fall under the city's preservation rules, so those details get drawn before they get built. On a plain back building with nothing venting through it, we still quote EPDM roofing and explain the tradeoff before you choose.
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Downtown roofs get different details
Edge details that pass the district
Coping profile, edge metal color and anything that reads from the sidewalk get chosen with the historic district rules in mind, not after somebody from the city drives past.
Old asphalt layers off the deck
PVC and asphalt do not get along, and a century of built up roofing is asphalt. It comes off, or new insulation goes between, and the deck gets made sound before the sheet goes down.
Grease kept on your own roof
Buildings here share party walls, so an exhaust fan close to the line throws grease onto your neighbor. We place the discharge and the containment so it is your membrane taking it, and PVC can.
Internal drains that still run frozen
Water on these roofs leaves through the middle of the building, not the edge. A frozen leader and a plugged strainer are how a downtown ceiling comes down, so drain assemblies get rebuilt with the roof.
Counterflashing cut into the brick
Surface caulk on a hundred year old wall is a two year fix. Where the membrane meets masonry we set the counterflashing into a cut joint, so water has to get through metal first.
No kettle over a full dining room
A mechanically fastened PVC roof goes down without hot asphalt and without the fumes that come with it, which matters when there are tables, apartments or an office directly under the deck.
Working over tenants and traffic
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We read the rules first
Before the design is set we check which district the building sits in and what the city expects on the visible elevations, because finding that out mid tear off stops the job.
Tenants told what happens when
Restaurants below, offices above, deliveries in the alley. We give the building manager a schedule the tenants can actually work with, and we stick to it or call.
Sometimes it all has to come off
If there are three roofs up there and the insulation is wet, a recover is wasted money. We would rather lose the smaller job than weld a new membrane over a soaked deck.
Sidewalk and storefront protected
Downtown means people walking under the work. We protect the entry, keep the alley passable, and get debris off the sidewalk the same day it comes off the roof.
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St. Cloud flat roof questions
What people in St. Cloud ask us about this work. If yours is not covered, call and ask.
Does a new flat roof downtown need historic district review in St. Cloud?
It can. The city has five locally designated historic districts, including the Commercial District, Southside and Pantown, and exterior work in them falls under preservation rules. A membrane nobody can see from the street is usually straightforward. Coping, edge metal and parapet work is where the review matters, so we sort that out before the tear off starts.
What is actually under the flat roof on an old St. Cloud building?
Layers. Built up felt and asphalt, sometimes coal tar, usually more than one roof, all over a plank deck. We cut a core to find out rather than guess. That answer changes the quote more than anything else, because wet insulation and rotted plank have to come off before a welded membrane means anything.
Can you re-roof a restaurant without closing the dining room?
Usually. PVC goes down mechanically fastened, so there is no kettle and no asphalt smell working its way through the vents into your dining room. We take it in sections and close each one before we leave. The loud part is the tear off, and that can go in your slow hours.
Walk the roof with us downtown
Tell us the block, the building and what vents through the roof. We will get up there, cut a core where it is warranted, and quote the PVC work with the district rules accounted for.
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