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Article: Expensive roof maintenance eliminated. (Krasdale Foods Inc.'s new roofing system) (Brief Article)
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- Buildings
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
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Krasdale Foods, Inc., a major East Coast wholesaler of dry foods, supplies groceries to over 3,000 retailers. Its Hunts Point, NY, center features floor-to-roof pallet storage racks which hold an extensive and tremendously valuable inventory of goods - goods that were subject to damage by the facility's faulty roofing. Armand DeMille, Krasdale's engineer, says, We put up with roof problems for years, using up to 110 tarps to protect our dry goods. We continued to experience losses, especially on weekends. The previously built-up roofing (BUR) had become a classic example of a bad roof. ... Leaks were a particular problem in the winter, when roof expansion and contraction ...