Phased Around Your Hours
Before opening, between services, or section by section. The constraint comes first, then the schedule.
Flat and low-slope, phased around your hours. Warehouses, retail strips, offices, restaurants and light industrial. Free survey, written scope, no shutdown.
A commercial roof is a line item until the day it becomes a shutdown. Then it is the only thing anyone is talking about.
Big Easy Roofing Company works on flat and low-slope commercial property throughout the parish and thirteen cities beyond it: warehouses, retail strips, offices, restaurants and light industrial. The systems are different from a house, the failure modes are different, and so is the thing you are actually protecting, which is trading hours.
We phase the work around your operation. Retail gets done before opening. Restaurants get done between services. Warehouses get sectioned so you keep running. Tell us the constraints before we quote, not after.
Before opening, between services, or section by section. The constraint comes first, then the schedule.
The people who survey your roof are the people on it. Nobody arrives on your site unannounced.
It protects the roof, and it protects your position with your insurer. It is the cheapest roofing money you will spend.
Five of them account for almost everything we are asked to look at on a commercial roof. Find the one that matches what your building is doing, or ring and describe it.
Each has a page of its own if you want the detail. If the roof is leaking today, do not read any of it:
Talk to a roofer504-229-3955
Water on a flat roof does not fall, it travels. It runs along the deck to a low spot, sits there, and goes through at a seam or a fastener that can be forty feet from the ceiling tile it eventually drips onto. Chasing the stain finds nothing.
When the deck and the insulation underneath are still sound, a re-roof over the existing system is faster and cheaper than a full tear-off, and it puts far less disruption into your week. We tell you honestly which one your roof is a candidate for.
On a sound flat roof a coating adds years of life and reflects heat off the building, at a fraction of what a replacement costs. It is the right answer more often than most building owners expect, and we will say so when it is.
Two visits a year, drains and seams cleared and checked, and a written record you can hand to your insurer or your board. Most commercial roof failures we get called to were preventable and visible a year earlier.
A commercial claim lives or dies on documentation. We survey the whole roof elevation by elevation, mark every affected area on a plan rather than in a list, and produce a scope of loss your carrier can price without sending anybody back out.
We put the whole program on paper before anybody sets foot on the roof, including the hours we are not allowed to touch.
Somebody walks the whole roof, not the parking lot. Drains, seams, laps, flashings, every penetration and every low spot, photographed. If there is insulation under the membrane we tell you what condition we think it is in and how we would confirm it.
Free, and you keep the survey whoever does the work.
A line-item scope with the system specified by name, not "flat roof repair". You can see what is structural, what is optional, and what can wait until next year’s budget. Where a carrier is involved, the loss documentation is packaged with it.
Written, itemized, and it does not expire on Friday.
You tell us the hours you cannot lose and we build the program around them. Retail before opening, restaurants between services, warehouses sectioned so the operation keeps running. This gets agreed before the work starts, not renegotiated during it.
Your constraints come first, then our schedule.
Only as much roof is opened as we can make watertight the same day, section by section. Deliveries staged so your yard stays usable, and the site left clean at the end of every shift because you are still trading in the morning.
Nothing is left open overnight. Ever.
The survey and the written scope are free, and nothing is committed until you sign off the budget.
Book a free surveyGrouped by what they actually do, so you can split two ways: putting a roof right, and keeping it that way. One crew covers both halves, so nobody hands your building over mid-project.
The calls that come in when water is already inside the building, and what follows them.
Where the water goes through, not where it lands
View service →Seams, laps and blisters, closed properly
Parapets, curbs and every penetration
Impact mapped per elevation for the claim
Over a sound deck, faster than a tear-off
When the deck and insulation say so
Extensions and new build, specified per use
The cheapest roofing money you will ever spend, and the least dramatic.
Years added and heat reflected, at a fraction of replacement
View service →Seamless, reflective, walkable when cured
Two visits a year, written record each time
Every drain, seam and curb photographed
Moisture out of the build-up, not into it
R-value that shows up on the utility bill
Metal, fiber cement and panel systems
Tell us the building and your trading hours, and we will phase the work around them.
Flat is not a material, it is a category, and the five systems inside it are not interchangeable. Ponding water finishes one of them and barely troubles another. Grease from a kitchen extract will destroy a membrane that is fine on a warehouse. We spec for the building, not for the category.
The layered felt-and-bitumen system still sitting on a lot of older New Orleans buildings, usually under gravel. Heavy, repairable, and frequently worth repairing rather than replacing. The failures are almost always at the flashings and the drains, not in the field.
Rolled sheets with a polymer-modified asphalt, heat-welded at the laps. Tough underfoot, which matters on a roof that carries HVAC units and gets walked on. The seams are the whole job, and a bad lap will find you in the first heavy rain.
The default on most new low-slope work. Light, fast to install and reflective in the white membranes, which matters in Gulf heat. Each of the three behaves differently around grease, ponding and chemical exposure, which is why a restaurant and a warehouse should not get the same spec.
Not a roof on its own. A seamless liquid membrane over a sound one, adding years of life and reflecting heat, for a fraction of what a replacement costs. It only works if what is underneath is dry and sound, so we survey before we ever recommend it.
You will not find a wind warranty claim here. The GAF WindProven warranty this company promotes is a Timberline shingle warranty, and it does not apply to a TPO, built-up or modified bitumen roof. Manufacturer warranties on low-slope systems are written per system and per installer, so we quote the actual warranty attached to the actual product on your building.
Materials, phasing and drainage on paper before anyone is on your roof.
Neither is about the roof itself. Both change the number at the bottom of the page.
A sound flat roof with a failing surface does not need tearing off. A coating over it adds years and reflects heat off the building, and it lands nowhere near a replacement on cost or on disruption.
The survey decides which one your roof is. If the insulation under the membrane is wet, a coating traps the problem and we will tell you that rather than sell you one. If it is dry, coating is very often the honest recommendation.
Insurers increasingly ask what was done to the roof and when. A building with two documented visits a year and photographs of each one is in a very different position after a storm than a building with nothing.
We are roofers, not public adjusters, and we will not promise you an outcome. What we can do is make sure there is a record, and that the record is in a format somebody else can actually read.
Not on the list? Ask us directly. Somebody who has actually been on a roof will answer.
Talk to a roofer504-229-3955That is the normal case, not the exception. We phase the work section by section and only open as much roof as we can make watertight the same day. Retail gets done before opening, restaurants between services, warehouses in sections. Tell us the hours you cannot lose before we quote.
That depends on whether what is under the membrane is dry. If the insulation is wet, a coating seals the problem in and we will not recommend one. If the deck and insulation are sound, coating is very often the right answer and costs a fraction of replacement.
Emergency tarping is same day, including overnight in storm season. A full documented survey is usually inside the week. Either way somebody rings you back before close of business.
We walk the roof with your adjuster and give them elevations, measurements and a scope of loss in the format they work in. What we will not do is negotiate the claim or tell you what it will settle at. Estimating a loss is the adjuster’s job and negotiating it is a public adjuster’s. We do neither, and we would be suspicious of a roofer who offered to.
Yes, and for commercial work you will also want the certificate of insurance and the additional-insured endorsement before anyone mobilizes. We send both with the scope, before anyone is on your roof.
Name and phone are enough. We call back the same business day.