Commercial Flat Roof Framing Repair & Replacement

It starts as a roofing problem and turns into a framing one if nobody catches it. Water past the membrane sits on the deck and works into whatever it can reach. Plywood goes first, then the sub-purlin under it. None of that shows from below until the ceiling stains. Standing water that never drains is the other tell, because a low spot that holds a puddle is usually low for a reason.

We open it, do the framing, deck it, and close it back watertight, so you are not chasing two trades across one hole. One thing to check before anybody cuts: if the roof carries a manufacturer warranty, the terms usually spell out who is allowed to open and reseal the system. Send us that paperwork up front and we will work inside it rather than void it.

Only what sits directly below the work. We tape that footprint off, cover what stays, and everything outside the line keeps running. The bigger rule is weather. Anything we cut gets dried in before the crew leaves for the day, so a night of rain does not land on your inventory.

Your policy decides, and the split usually turns on whether the damage was sudden. Storm, impact and fire losses are normally claims. Slow rot and long-run sag normally read as wear and get denied. Either way we write the scope in Xactimate, which we have used since 1994, so the adjuster is handed a format they already work in.