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Reroofing with sub-purlins was the right solution for busy Fishkill Recreation center
When you visit the calendar page of the Town of Fishkill (New York) Recreation building, it’s easy to see that there is a lot going on every day. Each date has four of that day’s events listed, but at the bottom of each date is a link to drop down the entire list – some days, the link says “+14 more.” Now that’s busy!
Reoccurring roof leaks were becoming a problem with the original standing seam metal roof at this hub of activity. A typical July day at the Fishkill Recreation building will include basketball, cheerleading, senior bingo, soccer camp and Zumba workouts. Removing the roof and installing a new one was not an option where visitors of all ages are coming and going from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.
Ultimately, the town opted for a Roof Hugger sub-framing system, where the original roofing panels stay in place. The sub-purlins fit over the seams of the 25-year-old metal panels and are attached through the old roof and into the original roof structural framing system. The new standing seam panels were attached to those sub-purlins, providing a durable, weathertight, wind-resistant system that should serve the community for decades.
The re-roofing of this rec center with a 5:12 slope roof was completed by R.K. Roofing of Wingdale, New York, without interrupting activities within the building.
“The town was great to work with,” says Jon Vitolo, Sales Manager for R.K. Roofing. “They gave us plenty of room in parking lots to work. We had a staging area and a storage area. We needed a lot of room because some of the panels were 110’ long. That’s longer than any of our guys have ever worked with.”
Vitolo says the decision to use the Roof Hugger system was predetermined with the general Contractor, A & J Construction of West Nyack, New York, before his team was brought onto the project.
“This was our first time working with the Roof Hugger and it was super easy,” Vitolo says. “We worked with some guys from Roof Hugger. We actually suggested one profile and explained what we were doing with insulation, Roof Hugger suggested an alternate profile that would work better, and they made it pretty easy for us.
The sub-purlins and roofing panels were installed over the original trapezoidal roof. The structure is an “out-of-the box metal building package.”
The project required 4,600 linear feet of Roof Hugger’s Model T, a 4½” tall sub-purlin for typical 24” on-center rib trapezoidal standing seam panel. R.K. Roofing also installed more than 20,000 square feet of roofing panels. New Castle Metals of Hicksville, New York, manufactured the panels onsite, the Drexel Metals 450SL, a 1½” snap lock profile. Medium Bronze was the color selected for the 15” wide 24-gauge panels. MR
