What fails on apartment and condo roofs here
Multi-family roofs fail in a way a single house doesn't: one leak becomes three tenant calls, and a storm that dents one building usually dented the whole complex. East Texas hail and wind work on every roof at once, and a small repair put off on one building turns into a stained ceiling in somebody's unit.
The usual culprits are the same ones we find on any roof. Flashing at walls and penetrations. Shingles lifted or missing after wind. Hail bruising that doesn't leak yet. On a duplex or a condo block, the hard part is that nobody on the property can see the top of the building, so the damage waits until a tenant files a complaint.
That is why property managers, building owners and homeowners' associations call us for the whole picture instead of the one unit that is leaking.
