NR Building Solutions

Commercial roofing

Commercial roofing for property owners and portfolio operators

The same crews, the same reporting and the same vendor file — applied to the commercial assets sitting in the same portfolio as your communities.

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How it is priced
Per square, by system, with tear-off and deck priced separately
Timeline
Set in your written estimate, after the walk-through
Who performs it
NRBS crews, self-performed

One vendor file across two asset types

An operator who owns manufactured housing communities almost always owns something else in the same portfolio: a clubhouse, an office, a laundry building, a maintenance shop, a storage facility, a retail pad.

Those are commercial roofing assets. In most portfolios they sit with a different vendor, a different agreement, a different certificate of insurance and a different invoicing stream — which is administrative overhead that buys nothing.

We run commercial roofing under the same vendor agreement, with the same crews model, the same photo documentation standard and the same consolidated invoicing broken out by property and cost center as the community work. See national accounts for how that consolidation actually works.

What carries across, and what does not

We are precise about this because overclaiming here would be easy and it would be wrong.

What carries across is the operating model. Self-performed crews rather than brokered work. Documented condition before and after. Reporting an asset manager can read without a site visit. Response commitments that are written down.

What does not carry across is the technical scope. A commercial low-slope membrane roof and a manufactured home roof are different disciplines — different systems, different detailing, different failure modes, different crews. Anyone telling you the two are the same job is telling you something about their bidding practice rather than about roofing.

Where a roofing programme should start

  1. Survey

    Every roof in the portfolio: condition, remaining service life, and a repair-or-replace recommendation per roof with photographs.

  2. Triage

    Which roofs need work this year, which can be maintained, and which can wait — with the reasoning for each rather than a bid on all of them.

  3. Programme

    The work that has to happen now, phased across the budget cycle, with maintenance covering the rest.

  4. Maintenance

    Scheduled inspection and minor repair on the roofs that are still sound, which is what keeps the replacement list short.

Bidding every roof in a portfolio as if all of them need replacing is easy to do and expensive to buy. A survey that says three of these fourteen need work this year is worth more, and it is the sequence we recommend even though it is the smaller first invoice.

The systems

Also in commercial roofing

Specification

What we install, and to what standard.

Full specification
Systems
TPO, metal, coatings and repair across low-slope and steep-slope
Delivery model
Self-performed, same crews and same reporting as the community work
Vendor file
One agreement, one vendor file, one invoicing stream across both asset types
What we do not do
Pretend a commercial roof and a manufactured home roof are the same job

Not in the scope

  • Anything not written in the scope. Extra work found on site is raised as a written change order before it is done.

Ready when you are

Step one is your scope, as it already exists.

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Pricing a whole community? Request a park-wide quote.

Common questions

Because the same asset manager frequently owns both. An operator with communities usually also holds an office, a storage facility, a clubhouse or a retail pad, and running two vendor files, two COIs and two invoicing streams for roofing work is administrative overhead with no benefit.

No, and we do not present it that way. Commercial low-slope systems, their detailing and their failure modes are a different discipline from manufactured home roofing. What carries across is the operating model — self-performed crews, documented work, consolidated reporting — not the technical scope.

Yes, and it is the most common starting point. Clubhouses, offices, laundry buildings, maintenance shops and covered structures inside a community are commercial roofing scopes sitting inside a manufactured housing asset.

A survey is how a roofing programme should start — condition, remaining service life and a repair-versus-replace recommendation per roof. We would rather survey a portfolio and tell you which three roofs need work this year than bid every roof as if all of them do.

W-9, written safety programme and certificates of insurance (GL and workers’ comp): being prepared. What is published so far is on vendor credentials.

Usually specified alongside

Where we perform commercial roofing overview

Self-performed crews based in Houston. Each city page carries local housing context.

Houston-area city pages