Spray foam roofing for Nicholasville retail and office buildings, planned around the rooftop units that shut down while foam goes on near their intakes.
On a busy retail or office roof, the HVAC units decide how a foam job is staged. Here is how we work around them.
Fumes from foam and coating get pulled indoors through fresh-air intakes. So each unit near the spray zone is shut off at its disconnect for a set window, then restarted once the coating sets. On a strip center, that means one tenant's units at a time.
We coordinate the shutdowns with your HVAC service company and post the times for each tenant. Units are wrapped in plastic, curbs are cleaned, and conduit runs are raised or masked before the rig starts.
Strip center roofs share one membrane across several tenants, and their leaks cluster around equipment. These five spots come up on most walks.
Corner joints in curb flashing open up first, and water runs under the membrane toward the storefront. Foam wraps the curb and its corners as one piece.
Drain lines from rooftop units drip onto the same patch of membrane for years, softening it. We reroute or support the line before spraying around it.
Firewalls between tenant spaces often rise through the roof as low parapets with their own flashing. Those joints get sprayed up and over so water stays out of the gap.
Water leaves strip roofs through scuppers over the storefront canopy, and clogged openings back water up the slope. We clear and size them before foam goes down.
Technicians crossing the roof to reach units wear paths into the membrane. A granulated walk path in the topcoat gives them grip and protects the foam.
For a Nicholasville retail roof, the gains from foam and its topcoat show up around equipment and tenants.
Each rooftop unit on a strip roof has its own curb flashing, and they fail one by one.
Foam turns every curb into part of one sprayed surface, and the topcoat is renewed later without disturbing the units.
Tear-off crews open the deck over sales floors and offices.
With dry insulation underneath, the old roof stays, so the deck stays closed while tenants keep working.
Older retail roofs often have one thin layer of board under the membrane.
Closed-cell foam adds about R-6 per inch on top, plus air sealing; real savings track the building and its equipment.
Membrane roofs come off again at the end of their life.
The topcoat is cleaned and recoated when it wears thin, and the foam stays in place while it remains dry.
Three ways foam and coating go onto Nicholasville roofs, set by what is up there now.
Dry built-up or single-ply roofs over several tenants get foam sprayed straight over them, one tenant section at a time.
Older foam roofs on Nicholasville offices wear thin along technician paths first, so those lanes get cleaned and recoated with granules.
Where readings show water in the board near front scuppers, that patch is cut out, refoamed to match, and coated.
Tell us which tenant space, which unit, and whether the roof is metal or membrane. We will plan the walk around that unit.
(859) 204-7918Roof work and tenant coordination run side by side on a strip center, so both lanes matter.
On a Nicholasville strip roof, the first walk logs each tenant's units, curbs, and condensate lines, with moisture readings around every curb and front scupper.
We build a shutoff list unit by unit with your HVAC service company, so each tenant knows which hours their system is off and when it restarts.
Curbs are scrubbed, wet board near scuppers is replaced, condensate lines are lifted, and each unit is wrapped in plastic against fumes and overspray.
Customer parking on the downwind side of the roof edge is coned off while spraying runs. Storefront doors get a posted notice, and deliveries move to the clear side.
Foam goes on tenant by tenant, the topcoat follows with granulated service paths, and units restart only after the coating has set around their intakes.
Wilmore is a short drive west; the rest sit on the roads out of Lexington.
Church, school, and gym roofs.
Foam over metal and flat roofs across Fayette County.
Tapered foam and crickets on long roofs.
Barns, shops, and sheds on one property.
Rust priming on older metal shops.
Brick parapets and coping downtown.
Permits, power, and scheduling around tenants in Jessamine County.
Building work in Nicholasville falls under Jessamine County. The state directory lists a Jessamine County local building inspector plus an assigned state inspector, and the county posts its commercial building permit application online.
Bring a roof plan that says whether the old membrane stays, how much foam goes on, and whether tapered foam changes water flow at scuppers or gutters.
Blue Grass Energy, the electric cooperative headquartered in Nicholasville, serves Jessamine County, though some properties use other providers, so check the bill. It matters because rooftop units are shut off at their disconnects while foam is sprayed near the intakes, then restarted once the coating sets.
Yes, in most cases. We spray one tenant section at a time, shut down only the units near that section, and post the hours on each storefront door.
Tenants with food prep or sensitive stock get their window set first, and customer parking on the downwind side stays clear.
It follows the slope and insulation plan we agree on. Thickness is built up at low spots so water heads to the scuppers, and we probe the foam at edges and drains to confirm the depth before the topcoat goes on. You get those readings with the roof photos.
Each one gets masked or lifted before spraying. Sign anchors and dish mounts are sealed with foam at their bases, and cables are raised so foam stays off them. Tell us about any equipment you own up there so we can plan who reconnects it.
Share the roof size and how many tenants sit under it.
