Commercial Roofing in Oroville, CA

Industrial and agricultural roofs on the Oroville flats

The industrial buildings around the Oroville airport and along the Highway 70 and Highway 162 corridors are mostly metal: pre-engineered steel buildings with screw-down panels that have been through 30 or 40 summers. On those roofs the failures are predictable — fasteners that have backed out as the panels expanded and contracted, rust at every lap and every place water sits, and skylights whose sealant gave up years ago.

Out toward Palermo, Richvale and Biggs, olive, rice and orchard operations add processing sheds, storage and equipment buildings with the same metal problems plus the dust and debris of harvest. We repair, recover, coat and replace metal roofs, and we know when each of those is the right call.

Retail, office and public buildings

Along Oro Dam Boulevard, Olive Highway and Feather River Boulevard, Oroville's retail centers, restaurants and offices sit under flat single-ply and modified-bitumen roofs loaded with HVAC equipment — and in this heat, those units run hard, vibrate constantly and work their curbs loose. Downtown's older brick buildings along Montgomery and Myers streets carry parapet walls and internal drains that need regular attention.

Oroville also has an unusual share of public and institutional roofs for a town its size: county buildings, the hospital district, schools and the facilities that came with the dam and the state water project. We have the licensing, insurance and in-house crews that public work requires.

Built for Oroville heat and canyon wind

Two things separate Oroville from the rest of the valley. The first is heat: Oroville routinely records the highest temperatures in Butte County, and roof surfaces there can run 60 to 70 degrees above the air temperature.

That heat cooks asphalt, embrittles cheaper membranes and drives cooling costs on any dark roof — which is why we lean on white PVC membranes and light-colored metal in Oroville more than anywhere else we work.

The second is wind: buildings on Kelly Ridge, along the Feather River canyon and on the open ground east of the Thermalito forebay take gusts that lift edge metal and peel membranes from the perimeter in. We spec mechanically fastened perimeters and heavier edge metal on those sites as a matter of course.

Repairs, Leak-Stop and maintenance in Oroville

Most of the calls we get from Oroville businesses are repairs — a leaking skylight over a shop floor, a rusted valley on a packing shed, a failed curb over a restaurant kitchen. Because we are 30 minutes away, Leak-Stop dispatch reaches Oroville the same day or next day depending on volume.

After the water is stopped we document the roof so you know what is coming, and we put buildings on a maintenance schedule that catches fastener and seam failures before the first north-wind storm of the year finds them. Manufacturer warranties on membrane roofs require annual inspection; we perform it and keep the records for you.