Commercial Roof Replacement in Metairie, LA

A single-tenant single-ply re-roof on a 5,000 to 15,000 square foot building typically runs 2 to 3 weeks from tear-off to warranty registration. A 30,000 to 60,000 square foot phased tenant-occupied job runs 4 to 6 weeks. Weather, deck condition, and permit turnaround all move the number, and every scope written by Big Easy Roofing states the calendar plan up front.

In most cases yes. Big Easy Roofing sequences a commercial re-roof around business hours where the interior use permits it, using a phased tear-off that keeps the roof watertight overnight and never exposes deck over occupied space at end of day. Restaurants, medical offices, and retail sites are the common phased scopes on Metairie commercial jobs.

A straight system-for-system re-cover on the existing deck at the same slope usually does not. A tear-off to deck, a change in insulation thickness that alters the wall parapet detail, deck repair over more than a small area, or any rooftop equipment relocation typically does trigger a Louisiana-licensed architect or engineer stamp on the plans for the Jefferson Parish permit.

TPO is the workhorse for a Metairie warehouse under 30,000 square feet: heat-welded seams, white reflective surface for cooling load, 20 year service life, $5.50 to $11 per square foot installed. Modified bitumen fits an existing bituminous system on a smaller footprint where a torch-safe application is acceptable, at $4 to $8 per square foot with a 15 to 20 year life.

Two warranties. Big Easy Roofing writes a labour warranty on the installation. The manufacturer writes a materials warranty, and where you buy a full-system NDL (No Dollar Limit) warranty at closeout the manufacturer covers labour and materials with no dollar cap for the 20 or 30 year term, subject to a mid-life inspection at the manufacturer's schedule. NDL is the tier most Metairie commercial owners buy.

That depends entirely on the cause of loss and on your policy, and it is your insurer or a licensed public adjuster who answers it. Louisiana law prohibits a contractor from interpreting coverage, so we will not guess at it. What Big Easy Roofing provides is the technical record: a photographed condition survey and a good faith itemised, detailed loss scope your carrier or public adjuster can price against.

Mechanically-attached is the standard specification for a Metairie single-ply re-roof, engineered to the wind uplift rating the plans require. Ballasted single-ply is common in low-wind interior states but is a poor fit for the Louisiana Gulf Coast because the ballast itself becomes a projectile in a design-wind event and the system rarely meets FM 1-90 without additional attachment.

Measurably, for a low-slope commercial roof on a cooling-dominated building. A white TPO or a white-coated modified bitumen with a Solar Reflectance Index in the 0.70 to 0.80 band reduces roof surface temperature under Louisiana summer sun compared to a black EPDM, and the reduction shows up in the HVAC runtime on the following utility bill. The state energy code allows this as a compliance path.

FORTIFIED Commercial is an IBHS standard, separate from the LDI Louisiana Fortify Homes Program (which is residential-only, up to $10,000). Certification requires the roof design to hit specific wind-uplift and continuous-load-path criteria, with an IBHS Evaluator sign-off after install. Big Easy Roofing writes to the standard where the client asks for it; the certification itself is filed by an IBHS Evaluator.

Whole-building is faster and cheaper per square foot because the crew and the crane stay mobilised. Phased is the choice when a business cannot go dark and the roof cannot be temporarily exposed over occupied space. A phased plan splits the roof into quadrants sized to be tear-off and dry-in the same day, which is why phased jobs typically add 15 to 30 percent to the calendar time.