SPECIALTY ROOFING & SERVICES

High Rise (St. Luke's Tower)

This high rise project posed extraordinary circumstances for Competition Roofing. For example, trash removal had to be done through the interior of the 27-floor building. There were no other options. The roof was coal tar pitch with asbestos, which presented another challenge due to the messiness and restrictions of the removal process. Using a series of carts, hoists, elevators and forklifts, trash and debris in sealed containers passed through "clean rooms," HVAC equipment rooms and several long basement corridors. The same system was used for moving the new materials to the roof.

Religious Facility (Trinity Lutheran Church)
The sanctuary has a nailable concrete plank deck and a clay tile roof. The tile and underlayment had been damaged in Hurricane Alicia in 1983 and had not been properly repaired.
The entire roof had to be stripped, and the underlayment and flashings had to be replaced. The original tile was reinstalled.
Storm Damage Repair - 24-Hour Service (Supermarket)

A large supermarket was hit by a tornado the Saturday evening before Thanksgiving. The tornado took the roof off the store right before one of its biggest sales periods.

A call to Competition Roofing put three crews on site that evening. We worked continually until the roof was made watertight on Sunday evening. The store reopened Monday morning, and roofing work was completed Tuesday night. The repairs were completed in record time even though the roof system had to be redesigned using materials and methods that were immediately available.

 
Historic Structure (Harris County Civil Courts Building)
 

 We received the assignment to re-roof the old 1910 Harris County court building. The site was extremely restrictive, and, because the building was a historic structure, we could not attach a trash chute or scaffolding to the outside. Removal of debris and loading new materials posed a major challenge.

 
There were seven roofs on the structure, all of which had to be removed, producing tens of thousands of cubic feet of material debris. The bottom roof was clay tile set in mortar that required a jackhammer for removal. This had to be done without disrupting courtrooms during the day.

We set up a night crew to do tear off and a day crew to install new roofing material. The teams worked 24 hours a day altogether to get the job done with minimal disruption.
In addition to the restrictive site concerns, the new roof had to look like the original tile due to the historic building classification. There was not enough budget for clay tile, so a terra cotta colored membrane was used for the roof. Real clay tile could be added later when the budget was available.
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