LC3 Skylight Installation

Imagine, a customer comes to you and asks your company to be a part of a major skylight installation. Of course you say yes - that’s the business you're in. However, this was no ordinary skylight. We were tasked with removing a 106 x 60 ft. section of roof, with the requirement of keeping the structure in the dry at all costs. Not a small request considering the severity of North Texas weather.

Collaboration With the help of Audrey Boss of Turner Construction, we put our heads together and came up with a plan to essentially build a Circus Tent on top of the exposed area of this facility. To our knowledge this is the first time a roofing contractor has attempted such a feat.

The process

  1. Removed the existing roofing system, as well as roof decking, the bar joist and all related steel items.
  2. Built a 12” tall roof curb around the perimeter of the roof opening and flashed it into the existing roofing system.
  3. Fabricated a 110’ x 70’ Johns Manville 45 mil TPO to create a temporary roof tarp.
  4. Anchored multiple ropes and ran them lengthwise along the roof curb.
  5. Installed a protection pad on the existing roof surface prior to moving the tarp.
  6. With the protection pad in place, we positioned large scissor lifts on the inside of the building which would be used to support the tarp.
  7. Using self-propelled roof cutters and man power from the crew, the tarp is moved over the roof opening.
  8. Raised the scissor lifts below, giving the top of the structure its circus tent apperance.
  9. Once the new curb for the skylight was built and flashed, we installed the new CPI Quadwall Skylight to complete the project.

The Real Challenge

It was required to move the 2500lb roof tarp at least 9 different times off the exposed area allowing the iron workers to complete their steel installation.

Roof Systems employees pulled it off seemlessly. Not once did any rain water penetrate the structure during the skylight construction, and despite some of the brutal storms that occurred during the life of this project - the tarp never faulted.

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