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The Importance of Commercial Roof Uplift Testing

  • Perla Irish
  • November 1, 2021
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  1. Importance of Roof Uplift Testing
  2. Detecting Design and Installation Flaws
  3. It Increases Your Property’s Sense of Security
  4. It Helps You Know Your Roof’s Remaining Life
  5. Serves As Warranty and Insurance Requirement
  6. The Height of Your Building
  7. Building’s Location
  8. Property Openings

Every commercial property owner wants to attract customers regardless of whether they’re renting short-term or long-term. While you can attract commercial property renters and buyers in many ways, conducting uplift testing is more paramount than other methods you can think of.

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The Importance of Commercial Roof Uplift Testing

When strong winds blow across the surface of your roof, regions of low pressure are established above it. This causes upward acting pressure that detaches and uplifts your roof in what is known as a roof uplift.

The frequency of your roof uplift problem chiefly depends on winds and other roof-damaging elements such as snow.

Importance of Roof Uplift Testing

Unlike other parts of your property, your roof is more prone to degradation primarily because of its high vulnerability to damaging factors like expansion, contraction, traffic stress, and the adverse effects of different weather conditions.

Therefore, according to experts from America Roofing, roof uplift testing is significant in many ways, as can be seen below.

Detecting Design and Installation Flaws

Today, the world is driven by appearance. The same applies to your commercial property. Your place needs to look attractive to help attract renters and buyers.

Roof uplifting testing helps you quickly identify roof installation and design flaws that could speed up your entire property’s degradation and shorten its lifespan.

Some of the installation deficiencies roof uplift testings help you identify wrongly placed roof materials, incorrectly or insufficiently installed roof adhesives, improper property storage, especially those on roof boards, and issues with metal decking.


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It Increases Your Property’s Sense of Security

Roof uplift testing helps renters and property buyers know that they are in a place that complies with the basic property damage protection stipulated by unpredictable calamities.

Having the ability to predict and control the effects of calamities such as wind throws, uplifting increases security. It also eradicates worries of leakages and roof fall, considering most of the flaws leading to these issues are identified on time.

Moreover, to better benefit from roof uplift testing’s security advantage, be sure to combine it with regular and proactive roof maintenance to help rectify major problems that roof uplift testing can’t handle alone, such as broken or missing shingles.

It Helps You Know Your Roof’s Remaining Life

The remaining life of your roof is a question most property owners ask. Although there is no standard time frame, you can tell how long your roof has left. Roof uplift testing is one of the most effective techniques you can use to know when your roof is old enough for a replacement.

When conducting uplift testing, you’ll be able to identify roof anomalies that’d help you know whether or not your roof needs replacement or rectification.

Metal decking, wrongly installed adhesives, and contracted or expanded roof materials identified during uplift testing will help you make an informed decision based on your budget.

It also enables you to decide whether you’ll want to rectify or replace your roof.  Identifying these issues is only possible when you make use of uplift testing.

Serves As Warranty and Insurance Requirement

Primary manufacturer and insurance roof policies require that your roofing system and materials are in good condition, and reports of anomalies are reported on time when deficiencies are identified.

This will only happen when you’ve got regular roof inspections and checkups, and one of the ways you can perfectly do that is through roof uplift testing.

On top of that, to maintain the validity of your property insurance and roofing material warranties, some manufactures and insurance companies demand you to provide a valid roof uplift testing rating.

Factors Affecting Your Roof’s Uplift Test Intensity

Some of the notable factors determining your roof uplift testing rating include the following aspects.

The Height of Your Building

The taller your commercial building is, the higher its vulnerability to adverse effects of winds. Wind pressure, speeds, and load usually increase based on the height of your property.

To increase the effectiveness of your tall property’s ability to withstand winds and other damaging elements, be sure to regularly conduct uplift tests of its roof for hidden issues like miss-positioned materials.

Also, uplift tests your roof regularly for materials misplaced by the wind.

Building’s Location

The location of your commercial property also influences the number of uplift forces it bears. Places in higher altitude conditions usually experience severe conditions and unpredictable weather changes, hence suffering from severe uplift problems.

On the other hand, areas in flat locations experience little to no uplift forces; thus, commercial properties demand less uplift testing on these places.

Property Openings

Openings like cracks and windows sometimes increase your property’s vulnerability to uplift forces. Windows and cracks usually increase the buildup and depressurization of wind elements during hurricanes and snowfalls.

Increased inside buildups and depressurization of wind elements degrades your property’s roof stability, increasing uplift forces’ effects.

Therefore, close your property openings completely to prevent the increase of these uplift forces from buildups and depressurization dressing hurricanes and snowfall seasons.

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