HOT!

House has hot roof w/ smooth river rock. 2.5/12 gravel keeps ending up in gutter and now they are replacing siding/soffit and finding a couple small pieces of bad decking at the edge.

New roof time, they want new decking & shingles. I say nay(or at least want to)

Can I spud off gravel, fix bad decking, replace drip and flood w/ new gravel that is rougher so it won't travel and still expect another 20 years+?

What other options are there? I've done hot work, but mainly floods, top mops and patches, but nothing with gravel. Otherwise they kinda like the idea of a 60 mil TPO roof.

Note to self: Scratch MikeH off the Christmas mailing of Duralast-Best Roof Ever T Shirt.

Clover,

if you can get Carlisle or Manville pvc I think you'll be moving in the right direction. Stick with 60 mil would be my preference, and it will still be less than you're paying for DL.

Sometime when you get an op to get on those 5 year TPO's see if you can weld to them. It might really hard without a LOT of prep. That's been our experience anyway.

TomWhoWritesAlot: Great story! Never heard of the goodyear rubber blimp, best roofing ad ever! I got to use a big crayon at junior college, it was sweet.

That's also funny because of the three companies we have been certified by, none of them have seen our work except for whats on my webpage. And that ain't much! ....Oh, you sell how much in a depressed area? Your certified.

MikeH: I considered your loathe for Durolast while signing up, but I don't have great access to metal systems and I have been servicing a few restaurants lately. I was told they spec Durolast. After my next decent single ply project I will be going after Carlisle or Versico.

I've got TPO roofs that are about 5 years old at this point that still look great, BUT that doesn't impress me either. Just sayin.

clover83 Said: Im only in w/ Duro-last right now, Tom, and Im mainly pushing it on restaurants. Didnt start doing single ply until a few years ago, and moved in kind of slow.

I'm not a Durolast fan, at all, not even a little bit... but it's still a better roof than 60 mil TPO.

well... maybe, depending on where you're from.

It was many many Moons ago. I was a boyish man or manish boy depending on who tells the story. Many who first heard this story have gone to the big roof in the sky. Many that are reading this again wished they had gone to the big roof in the sky rather than read it again.

We had a version of TV back then. More of a rounder screen and less pixels but we could still view things far away.

On this day the SuperBowl appeared on this screen. It was after Namath and before Montana but we did not watch for any game, it was the amusing commercials and perhaps the hopes of a new beer coming out that made us watch.

The Colored screen turned bright white, I knew this was a sign. Into the Bright White a stick figure appeared and suddenly like some sort of Magic or Witchcraft the stick man threw out what appeared to be a white blanket or sheet. Suddenly over the Stick persons head a Stick like Blimp appeared that read, GoodYear Rubber and Tires Roofing System with a Toll Free phone number. The MetLife Blimp with Snoopy had not been invented yet.

I wrote the number down with my Crayon (I have used many boxes of Crayons since) and made plans to be near a phone the next morning. We lacked the technology to communicate without a wire connected to the inside of the building. The wire was owned by Ma Bell at the time and anything out of the area was picked up by sister AT&T.

I called and called but as history would show this Stickman blanket thing shut the entire phone lines down for 3 sun ups and sun downs. On the 4th rising of the sun I dialed the number and a voice answered.

I explained to the voice that I did roofs and wanted to do the roof of the great Stickman with the Blimp. I was told I must journey many miles by THE PLANE THAT FLYS to attend a school and if the roofing Gods were with me I would be awarded a Sheepskin telling all I was allowed to apply the great Stickman with blimps roof.

I made arrangements with the people of THE PLANE THAT FLYS to take this Journey. It was a great Journey, I smoked in the building of this Big Bird and was allowed to enter without taking my belt, shoes, be Xrayed and have someone stick a finger up my behind.

It was truly like a Holiday and some nice people allowed me to stay in their Inn. Today I always think of that as a holiday inn.

At the Pow Wow we learned how to throw the blanket out just like the Stickman with the blimp. We also learned things like the making of elephant ears and other neat folds as this was the way, learn the sheet, be the sheet form the sheet.

I did well as a boyish man I had the ability to hear and see and I had strong back like bull.

I took THE PLANE FLYS back to my home and waited some sun ups and sun downs when a messanger appeared bringing my father, KickTomsButt, much skin that had writing. He handed me one and it was from the Stick People, I was allowed to put their sheet on throughout the land.

I saw another strange skin that came with it. It told how we could not put sheet on Multi Shelter dwellings. Well, we were driven from our native land near the Adirondack Mountains to South Florida countless sun up and downs before this. Everyone in South Florida lived in tall Multi Dwelling strutures climbing to the sky.

The skin became worthless. Over all the sunsand moons since a tear comes to my eye when someone mentions SuperBowl. Ahhhh but as many things go when you rid yourself of the manish boy you never complete your quest, the stickman and sheet was buiried in the ground only spoken of by the few that lived the tale.

Do tell :)

clover83 Said: Im only in w/ Duro-last right now, Tom, and Im mainly pushing it on restaurants. Didnt start doing single ply until a few years ago, and moved in kind of slow.

Have you ever heard my Goodyear story????? Seems like people were always asking me to tell it. :)

I'm only in w/ Duro-last right now, Tom, and I'm mainly pushing it on restaurants. Didn't start doing single ply until a few years ago, and moved in kind of slow.

Why TPO? Give them PVC, more bang for the buck.

60 mil TPO sounds like the ticket to me.