Commercial Skylights
Commercial skylights Tucson businesses depend on are usually older, more numerous, and harder to get to than anything on a house. A warehouse or a school gym might have forty units on one roof, all installed the same year, all aging on the same clock.
That changes the job. On a house you are dealing with one unit and one decision. On a commercial roof you are dealing with a pattern, and the useful question is not just what is leaking today but which units are next.
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Repair And Ongoing Maintenance
Most commercial calls start with water coming in somewhere it should not.
The first job is the same as it is on a house. Is it the skylight, or is it the roof around it? On a large low slope roof that question gets harder, because water can enter in one place and show up on a ceiling tile fifty feet away. We check the unit, the curb, the flashing and the surrounding roof before anyone starts pulling things apart.
For larger properties with a lot of units, ongoing maintenance makes more sense than waiting for failures one at a time. Catching a blocked drainage channel before it becomes an interior leak is cheaper than the leak, the ceiling tile, and whatever was underneath it.
Flat And Low Slope Roofs
Most commercial buildings in Tucson have a flat or low slope roof, and that creates a specific problem that gets blamed on the skylight almost every time.
Water does not shed off a flat roof quickly. It sits. If a unit was set level with or below the roof surface, water pools against the base of it until it finds a way in. The skylight gets the blame for something the installation caused, and more sealant does not fix it.
The actual fix is building the curb up above the roof surface so water is diverted around the unit rather than pooling against it. That is a roofing detail as much as a skylight detail, which is exactly why so many of these get misdiagnosed and repaired twice.
Replacement Across Multiple Units
When a commercial roof has a run of aging units, replacing them together is usually cheaper per unit than doing them one at a time over five years. One mobilization, one set of access arrangements, one disruption to whoever is working underneath.
The other thing that drives timing is a reroof or recoat. If the roof is being redone, that is the moment to deal with the skylights. Setting twenty year old units back down on a new roof means the only way to change them later is to open up new work, and the roof warranty conversation gets complicated when someone else has to cut into it.
Daylighting For Larger Spaces
Warehouses, shops, gyms and manufacturing floors are the buildings where daylight pays for itself fastest, because they are large, they have tall ceilings, and they run lights all day.
We handle new installation on commercial roofs, including larger openings and multi unit layouts laid out to put light where people actually work rather than evenly across a slab. Solar light tubes also have a place in commercial buildings, particularly for interior offices, corridors and restrooms with no exterior wall.
How We Work With Businesses
- Full assessment. Every unit on the roof, not just the one that is leaking. You get to know what you are dealing with across the whole building.
- Photos of what we found. Useful when you have to explain a repair to someone who controls the budget and is never going on the roof.
- A plan and the options. What needs doing now, what can wait, and what it costs either way. If some units have years left, we say so.
We schedule around your operation. On an occupied building that usually matters more than the work itself.
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Same Company, Bigger Roof
We are skylight specialists with over 30 years of roofing experience behind the work, and commercial buildings get the same approach as houses. Look at everything, show you what we found, explain the options, then do the work.
If you are not sure whether you are looking at a repair or a replacement, describe what you are seeing and roughly how many units are on the roof. That is usually enough to point you in the right direction before anyone drives out.
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