And if so, who?<\/p>\n
I live in a 40 unit co-op (1920s era) that needs roofing attention, and my guess is that it probably needs to be stripped to the deck, insulated, and re-roofed. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the deck needed to be repaired. Asbestos is not unlikely, but unknown. Masonry and parapet caps look to be in pretty good shape, but the parapets are pretty gooey, so hard to tell what’s under there. <\/p>\n
I’m on the board of directors, and the lucky nominee to head this little project. I’m also an architect (15 years experience in large scale commercial if you want to know), but smart enough to know what I don’t know. I don’t know what or whether I need to file. I don’t know what other code required changes might be triggered by such a change. And though I know what epdm, modified bitumen, and TPO all are, I don’t know this market niche well enough to weigh in on the price\/payback of each. I could do some work and find out everything that I don’t know, but I know that I don’t want to be the responsible party for 39 potentially unruly neighbors.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And if so, who? I live in a 40 unit co-op (1920s era) that needs roofing attention, and my guess is that it probably needs to be stripped to the deck, insulated, and re-roofed. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the deck needed to be repaired. Asbestos is not unlikely, but unknown. Masonry and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-46838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roofers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/07\/architect-or-a\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Architect or a Roofer?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/07\/architect-or-a\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/07\/architect-or-a\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Roofers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"drat_bklyn"}],"creator":["drat_bklyn"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-07-28T15:45:32Z","datePublished":"2010-07-28T15:45:32Z","dateModified":"2010-07-28T15:45:40Z"},"rendered":"