Taylor Premium Roofing provides professional flat & low-slope roofing in Taylor, MI for residential and commercial properties across Downriver Wayne County. Nearly every house in this city has a low-slope plane somewhere: the attached garage, a closed-in breezeway, the family room tacked onto the rear in the middle seventies, the covered stoop. Low-slope work here is residential work, and it comes with a problem the main roof does not have.
That problem is that these planes have no attic. The ceiling is fastened straight to the underside of the framing, the cavity between drywall and deck is three or four inches deep, and there is no room in it for both insulation and moving air. Add a tightened envelope to a cavity like that and the deck above it becomes the coldest surface in the assembly.
Which is why we open one before quoting one, and why our recommendation depends entirely on what is in there. A cavity that has been packed solid wants venting restored at both ends with a genuine channel above the insulation, or it wants converting properly to an unvented assembly with air-impermeable insulation against the deck. Half measures on these planes produce sodden sheathing and a stained ceiling within about four winters.
The covering itself is straightforward. What is normally up there is mineral-surfaced rolled goods buried under a decade of brushed-on aluminum coating, and it gives way at the laps slowly rather than failing anywhere dramatic. We strip it and lay a self-adhered two-ply modified bitumen system finished with a granulated cap sheet, which puts no torch anywhere near your house, or single-ply on a larger field.
Where the water goes afterwards is the part that gets skipped. These planes carry a quarter inch of fall to the foot on a good day, and the main roof above frequently empties straight down onto them without a diverter of any kind. We build fall where there is none, fit a kick-out at the point the addition wall meets the house, and land the discharge in a downspout instead of on the slab.
Sound membrane with open laps gets a lap repair for a few hundred dollars, and we will say so rather than quote the plane. A garage roof at twelve years with tight seams and dry sheathing beneath it is not finished, and booking the real job six years out suits us a good deal better than taking an easy one now.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — blown cellulose settled over the eave top plate, corrugated vent chutes fitted bay by bay, a perforated intake strip cut into the original soffit board, a rigid insulation dam holding fill back off the deck, the one-inch clear air space required above insulation, supplemental attic fill laid over original 1960s blanket — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Taylor and nearby communities including Southgate, Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Wyandotte.
What We Handle
Everything our flat & low-slope roofing in Taylor covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of flat & low-slope roofing work in Taylor, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- flat roof repair Taylor MI
- low slope garage roof Downriver
- family room addition roof
- modified bitumen cap sheet Michigan
- rolled roofing replacement Taylor
- TPO membrane residential
- porch roof replacement Wayne County
- flat roof leak repair Downriver
- self adhered SBS membrane
- garage roof replacement Taylor
- low slope addition ventilation
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Taylor services.
Materials, equipment and how we do flat & low-slope roofing
The difference between flat & low-slope roofing that lasts and flat & low-slope roofing that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with blown cellulose settled over the eave top plate, corrugated vent chutes fitted bay by bay, a perforated intake strip cut into the original soffit board, a rigid insulation dam holding fill back off the deck, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Taylor job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in Downriver Wayne County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do flat & low-slope roofing outside Taylor
Taylor Premium Roofing covers Taylor and the surrounding communities of Downriver Wayne County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Southgate, MI — Wayne County, population 30,014
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Allen Park, MI — Wayne County, population 28,638
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Lincoln Park, MI — Wayne County, population 40,245
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Wyandotte, MI — Wayne County, population 25,058
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Riverview, MI — Wayne County, population 12,490
- Flat & Low-Slope Roofing in Trenton, MI — Wayne County, population 18,544
Start on the Taylor Premium Roofing homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Taylor Chooses Taylor Premium Roofing
- ✓We measure how deep the insulation sits over your top plate before pricing anything, because on this housing that number decides whether a new roof will stay dry.
- ✓Thousands of houses here were sound-insulated under an airport noise program that never touched the roof. We ask whether yours was one, and we scope it differently if it was.
- ✓Intake is restored before any exhaust is added. We will decline to sell a ridge vent over a buried soffit and explain why at more length than you want.
- ✓The air path is a separate priced line beside the covering, with a figure for chutes, a figure for soffit work and a figure for ridge, so you can strike any of them.
The standards behind flat & low-slope roofing
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The flat & low-slope roofing work we do in Taylor follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every flat & low-slope roofing project in Taylor gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free flat & low-slope roofing free estimate in Taylor, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.