“We work at many different types of businesses and manufacturing plants repairing flat and metal roofs and we observe a variety of different types of operation structures and management styles while at theses facilities. What made Madison chemical stand out to us was quality of the its workforce and the overall work environment in the plant. Each and every employee has “bought in” to a company culture of excellence and is invested in the long term success of Madison Chemical. We felt privileged to be working such an impressive operation and group of people and we set out on our own mission to give them the best possible flat roofing job/experience we had to offer”.
The Existing roof was, what is known in the commercial roofing industry as, a Ballasted Rubber Roof. This is the type of rubber roof that is covered in large river stone type rock. The rock serves two purposes 1) to hold rubber in place as it is not glued down but just loosed laid, and 2) it keeps the sun off the rubber extending its life. This type of roof used to b e popular because of it lower cost and ease of installation but better flat roofing membranes along with better flat roofing techniques and process have made ballast roofing obsolete. The rock had to go. For this we used an industrial vac truck. The rock is vacuumed up and fed into a tanker style truck so it can be dumped elsewhere
Once the rock was off the roof we used a crane to hoist the material and safety equipment and got ready to replace the flat roof.
The roofing spec called for a new 60 mil TPO roofing membrane and three inches of new polyiso roofing insulation with a cover board all to be fully adhered. We used a Johns Manville white TPO deck sheet and the invinsa board over the new roofing insulation. Each day we identified a section of the flat roof the was large enough to be a good days work and challenge our crew without bitting off too much roofing that we couldn't get covered by the days end. We began each morning by cutting the existing rubber roofing and folding it back. We then were able to remove the existing insulation board and stack and bundle it to be off the building. 
The Madison Chemical flat roof replacement job went as planned and Exterior Pro was grateful to be apart of this nice project.
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