2525 Main Street, Santa Monica, is where the historical landmark building, Galleria DiMaio, resides. What makes it a historic landmark? It’s where Merle Norman started her make-up empire in 1927 and was later home to E.M. Stolaroff’s Natone Company, or as we know it, Neutrogena Skin Care Company. It’s a building that has gone through an extensive remodel in the 1930’s and an internal gut in 1980. For the current owners, a new roof hadn’t been an issue for the last 30 years until now. How do you perform a large volume tear off on one of the busiest boulevards in a city that has heightened environmental issues with tear offs? In short, you don’t.
The Stats:
Type: Commerical Property
Scope & Size: 13,000 square feet of installation over concrete waterproofed deck over plywood
“1000s of cars an hour pass this building,” says Pacific Roofing Systems, V.P. Alan Stovesand. “On top of the huge challenge of environmental regulations by the city and the multi-level height, we had to consider shutting down a major artery of the city to repair this roof. How do we overcome all of that?”
In one fell swoop, Alan was able to solve each of these challenges with the proposal of one product, SureCoat. By installing a SureCoat Roof System, they wouldn’t have to worry about transporting pieces of torn off roof down a three-story building with multiple dump trucks impeding the traffic flow. The roof was structurally sound, but its surface needed some help. Because there was no need for a tear off, there was zero waste going to the landfills. In fact, 13,000 square feet of roofing materials were prevented from polluting the landfills.
So what exactly did Alan have to do to get this roof fixed? To start, he simply had to clean it. Alan and his team prepped the roof for installation with SureSkrub, the biodegradable SureCoat roof cleaner. To make sure that they were meeting all of the environmental regulations of the city, which included monitoring drains and runoff that lead to the ocean, as many cities do, Alan and his team quickly solved by containing the water, filtering it, and reusing it in an agricultural area close by.
By offering the SureCoat solution, Alan was able to:
Save the building owner tons of money by not tearing off the roof
Save the environment from waste and pollution – there was ZERO waste vs. thousands of pounds from a tear off
Collaborate and engineer a way to meet city water runoff regulations and reuse the runoff captured
Avoid shutting down the main thoroughfare of the city
This successful roof repair was topped off with a 10-Year Renewable Energy Efficient SureCoat Roof Restoration System that will help guarantee that this building will remain a historical landmark for many years to come.
Vets at Work Contracting is a Mississippi roofing contractor using the SureCoat Roof System to save roofs throughout Mississippi and Tennessee! Vets at Work recently completed another environmentally friendly and economically smart roofing system by using the existing tar and gravel built up (BUR) as the base for a new roof by installing the SureCoat Roof System.
9,600 SF of gravel built up roofing (BUR) was restored with the roof tear off alternative that is making its name known across the United States, the SureCoat Roof System. SureCoat Systems has continued to make its impression upon the industry with solutions to construction building problems that have plagued the roofing industry for decades.
Vets at work is a veteran owned and operated Mississippi roofing contractor specializing in the SureCoat Roof System. Vets at Work are roofing Mississippi hospitals, churches, government buildings and other specialized projects where waterproofing, environment and cost are important.
This project consisted of a hot tar and gravel built up roofing system that had been repaired for years with temporary mastics and miscellaneous patches. Many areas of this tar and gravel built up roof (BUR) showed signs of moderate abrasion and wear. The roof repairs were separating and deteriorating causing damage to the substrate underneath the existing roofing materials. The roof itself and the asphalt repairs were worsening and had become extremely brittle.
Roof mastic patches scattered this roof where cracks along the parapet walls and throughout the roof field were allowing for moisture intrusion, deteriorating the roof further. There are ponding areas in the field of the roof that were feeding the roof leaks and contributing to the roof repair failures. Several areas were exposed to direct weather and elements due to the severe deterioration of the roof and weather beaten roof mastic repairs.
We wouldn’t have used anything else. The SureCoat Roof System was the only choice because of the SureCoat Roof System’s waterproofing ability and warranty! – James Wright, Owner – Vet’s at Work
Vets at Work Contracting is a veteran owned and operated Mississippi roofing and construction company for the entire state of Mississippi and Tennessee. With over 60 years of US Military experience, Vets at Work knows how to adapt to any situation and use their attention to detail to ensure the best possible solution for your project.
The SureCoat Roof System can be used to repair and restore all levels of roof failures without a roof tear off. The SureCoat Roof System can recondition, restore and waterproof the most problematic built up roofs (BUR) including tar and gravel, modified, asphalt Cap Sheet, SPF-foam, PVC, TPO, EPDM, Hypalon and other single-ply roofs. With an elongation of 400% and sustained elongation of 160% at freezing, The SureCoat Roof System is an advanced system for even the coldest climates.
What this means for the Church: Now this local Mississippi church has a leak-free roof and a manufacturer’s written material warranty that covers PONDING conditions on low-sloped and flat roofs.
