The Next Generation of Liquid-applied Roofing

By Cass Jacoby.  

Gravel-surfaced built-up roof restoration has long evaded a solution until now. Grab your lunch and learn all about Tremco’s solution, AlphaGrade™. 

Are you ready to learn something new this lunch break? Good news, the latest Lunch & Learn is here! This new educational series from RoofersCoffeeShop® is designed to bring learning opportunities to the roofing industry, in a quick video you can easily fit into your work schedule. So grab some lunch and get ready to feast on some prime educational content. 

Tremco continues to lead the industry in building envelope sciences with products that solve problems and provide security for all types of buildings. In this Lunch & Learn, Product Manager for the Liquid Applied Product Line at Tremco Josh Poole discusses the challenge of restoring gravel-surfaced built-up roofs.  

“Your standard options are going to be one of three,” says Josh. “One would be a tear off and replacement with a new roofing system. Also, if you have just a single gravel surface built-up roof on, you can look at retrofit options where you'd then install a cover board, possibly additional insulation if you need to bring up R-value. And then some type of a system over the top, whether it's a single-ply or multi-ply system over that. Or you have a restoration option.” 

The removal of gravel along with the ability to restore the roof with a long-term solution instead of tearing it off has been a challenge for the roofing industry. Thankfully, Tremco has developed a solution — AlphaGrade™, a bio-based, polyurethane, liquid applied system for use on gravel-surfaced built-up roofs. 

“There was a need for some type of a long-term restoration option for these gravel surface built-up roofs,” says Josh. “We needed to try to target something that can offer a long-term performance life, and then also offer future options for restoring re-coat options that you can then maintain and continue to extend that application further out. We looked at a lot of different technologies. And ultimately, we set our goals on developing a high performing urethane option.” 

There are three main learning objectives to this Lunch & Learn:

1 - Restoration of gravel roofs. 

2 - Self-leveling liquid applied system.  

3 - The importance of innovation. 

Josh says that these solutions are born out of a process that begins at the customer and contractor level. “Our company has always been problem solvers,” says Josh. “We really look to drive our new product initiatives, our services initiatives, at how can we develop a product that's going to make life easier and better for the customer, for the contractor that's installing our products.” 

Download the learning guide and kickstart a conversation on restoring gravel roofs and how these innovations can help your business increase its bottom line. 

Grab your lunch and watch the newest Lunch & Learn! Be sure to take a photo of your team enjoying this Lunch & Learn and submit your photo or email it to us and you could win a pizza lunch on us! 

Check out the Lunch & Learn today! 

Learn more about Tremco in their RoofersCoffeeShop Directory or visit www.tremcoroofing.com. 

About Cass  

Cass works as a reporter/writer for RoofersCoffeeShop, AskARoofer and MetalCoffeeShop. When she isn’t writing about roofs, she is putting her Masters degree to work writing about movies and dancing with her plants.