Patios, parapets, whole mid-century houses — the low-slope roof nobody sees.

A huge number of Valley homes have a low-slope roof even if the front elevation is all tile — over the patio, over the addition, behind a parapet wall, or across an entire mid-century ranch. Water does not run off these roofs so much as it is escorted off, and every place where the roof turns up a wall or drops into a scupper is a place it can be held instead.

We install torch-applied and self-adhered modified bitumen with a granulated cap sheet, and we work on sprayed polyurethane foam roofs — the tan, seamless surface that covers thousands of Phoenix and Mesa homes. Foam is genuinely well suited to this climate when it is maintained: it is monolithic, it insulates, and it can be re-coated instead of torn off. Left uncoated, the UV eats it.

The details are the whole job. Base flashing that runs up the parapet properly and terminates under counter-flashing rather than a bead of caulk. Scuppers and drains sized and flashed so they actually take water. Positive drainage worked into the field so the roof is not holding ponds three days after a storm. And a clean tie-in where the low-slope meets the tile or metal above it — the single most common leak on a mixed roof.