The flat roof you have is usually fixable.
Most residential flat roofs we see are EPDM (single-ply rubber) installed in the 1990s or 2000s. They have 25 to 30 year service lives and they fail at the seams, the penetrations, and the parapet flashings — almost never in the field. A skilled repair on a good substrate buys you years.
We diagnose the substrate honestly. If the membrane is brittle, dry-rotting, or has standing water in multiple locations, replacement is the right answer. If it's a leaking seam, a failed pipe-boot, or an open parapet detail, we patch and we tell you it's a patch.
We install EPDM, TPO, and modified-bitumen — the three honest single-ply systems for Boston-area flat roofs. We do not install spray foam or coatings on residential flat roofs except as a last-resort buy-time measure.
