TeamCraft Roofing Inc.

Earthquakes are natural phenomena that, while awe-inspiring, can also pose serious risks to buildings, especially industrial and commercial structures. One of the most vulnerable parts of a building during an earthquake is its roof. Lets consider the impact earthquakes can have on industrial and commercial roofs and explore how TeamCraft Roofing can provide solutions to mitigate these risks. The agency reported a quake at 10:23 a.m. with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia. U.S.G.S. figures indicated that the quake might have been felt by more than 42 million people. #roofing #earthquake #tristate #construction #BuildingRepair

How are your contractors safely gaining access to your roof? Many of our customers understand that in order to repair or renovate a roof, access to that elevated work surface needs to be conducted safely. How are your contractors safely gaining access to your roof?  If you have other elevated work areas on your building, do you separately consider how are those areas being accessed? It might come as a surprise,  but there are many different things a building owner can do to increase safety at their facilities -- just by addressing this one aspect of safe access. Let’s take a look at a typical industrial roofing project, that has 10 roofers accessing a roof that is 30 feet high. The average roofer on this job would use the ladder for approximately 5 trips per day, or in total would go up and down the ladder 10 times. With 10 employees accessing the roof, that means the employees are using the ladder 100 times per day. That adds up to 100 opportunities for an employee to get injured. Now let’s consider the length of a project -- many of our projects are several months long. Knowing that, we can calculate the number of opportunities there are for a ladder injury to take place over a 60-day period. If each day there are 100 times someone uses a ladder, this means that over the course of this project we would allow 6,000 injury opportunities -- just by utilizing a ladder for roof access.  Another compounding factor is that many roofing jobs are at a working height of greater than 30 feet. These variables all point to an important conclusion -- ladders should be avoided for elevated work access.  6,000 injury opportunities on a single job is way too many. Many of our jobs will have twenty to thirty roofers on a single project, and we have multiple projects happening simultaneously all over the country -- so scale comes into play as well. If we think a bit differently, we can evaluate how these variables effect elevated work access, and come up with a better plan. Written by Jeff Mason, our corporate safety director. #safety #roofing #commercialroofing #OSHA #stairtower

In the long history of our planet, few natural phenomena have changed the landscape or caused more tragedy than water. Life couldn’t exist without it but the destruction it can create is boundless. Water can cause many problems for your roof, not just leaks. Most of us do not realize how heavy the element is. For example, consider a 5,000 square foot roof that is covered in just one inch of water.  The water weighs 5.2 pounds per inch per square foot, which means just one inch of water on a 5,000 square foot roof would way an incredible 26,000 pounds! Buildings are not engineered to tolerate this extra weight. Follow the link to read the complete article written by our own, Allan Cornett! #roofing #commercialroofing #familybusiness #construction