Phased building by building
Priced and scheduled one building at a time so the community is never entirely under construction.
Apartment Building Roofing, at a glance
Apartment roofing in St. Louis is scheduling work as much as roofing work. John Beal Roofing sequences buildings so parking, entries and trash service stay usable, posts notices before each building starts, and finishes one address before opening the next. Free inspections and written scopes. Call (314) 429-6000.
We work with apartment owners, regional managers and maintenance supervisors across the St. Louis metro and Metro East Illinois. The recurring problem is not the roof itself — it is resident notices, parking displacement, and a maintenance team already stretched thin.
That is why the scope is built around how you really purchase the work. Every section is reported, priced and scheduled on its own, letting you approve everything, half, or only the two buildings that will not survive another winter.
What we look at on a apartment roof
- Leaks reported unit by unit that trace back to one shared deck failure
- Balcony and walkway drainage that dumps onto the roof edge
- Kitchen and bath vent flashings, the most common chronic leak on multi-family
- Tear-off noise and debris control over occupied bedrooms
How We Scope It
Priced The Way You Have To Buy It
Dried in every night
Only as much roof gets opened as the crew can close the same day, because the units below are occupied.
How to compare roofing bidsNotices management can send
A written schedule per building so your office can notify residents before the noise starts.
Roof capital planningReroofing an apartment community without losing residents
On an apartment property the roofing schedule collides directly with leasing, turnover and resident retention.
Leasing runs on tours, and a tour does not survive a tear-off over the model unit with a dumpster parked in front of the office. Scheduling around leasing traffic, and keeping the buildings nearest the office and model clean and accessible, protects the revenue side of the property while the work gets done.
Turnover season is worth planning around. Buildings with vacant units, or a wing scheduled for turns, absorb noisy work far more easily than a fully occupied building, and sequencing toward those first reduces how many residents sit through peak disruption.
Resident notification has to come from the property, in writing, with enough lead time to plan around: which building, which days, what hours, where not to park. Properties that communicate this well receive complaints about noise. Properties that do not receive complaints about management, and those surface in reviews and renewals.
Reputation risk is the real cost of a badly run project. A reroof running several weeks across a community touches every resident, and the operational details — parking, cleanup, access, holding to stated hours — decide whether the property takes a reputational hit alongside the capital expense.
Breezeways, stairwells, carports and detached garages belong to the roof inventory and get left out of budgets with some regularity. We inventory and price them with the main buildings, so the number an owner approves is the number.
Where insurance is involved after a storm, unit interiors and common elements document differently, and an owner generally needs both captured properly to settle the claim in full.
On The Property
What The Work Looks Like Day To Day
Crews stage on one building at a time. Deliveries land the morning of use, not days early where they eat up parking.
Tear-off is limited to what the crew can dry in before leaving. Whoever is below never sleeps under an open roof deck.
Each evening we magnet-sweep the site, haul the debris, and walk you through the next day.
Common Questions
How do you handle people who are in the building while you work?
Residents are home at all hours, including night-shift workers and families with small children. We publish working hours in advance through management, hold to them, and sweep lots and walkways with magnets daily rather than once at the end.
Can we get pricing per building instead of one lump sum?
Yes. We price per building, which is how most apartment owners phase a community across budget years and start with the buildings in worst condition.
What warranty comes with the work?
Manufacturer coverage on the materials plus our workmanship warranty, and on a phased community the specification is documented so the warranty terms match building to building.
How quickly can you respond to a leak on one of our buildings?
For an active leak into an occupied unit we mobilize for temporary dry-in as soon as conditions allow, day or night, then return in daylight for the permanent repair.
Do you work on the Illinois side?
Yes. We run crews out of Edwardsville, so apartment communities in Madison and St. Clair County are served directly rather than dispatched across the river.
Free Apartment Building Roofing Evaluation
Tell us about the community and a dispatcher will call to schedule.