By doing preventative maintenance, should I expect no leaks on my building?
We get asked this a lot, "By doing preventative maintenance shouldn't I expect to have no leaks on my building?"
The answer to that is no. You can't just expect to have no leaks because you do preventative maintenance.
Now can preventative maintenance help with getting in front of leaks? Sometimes. But the objective of doing preventative maintenance is to avoid premature failure to that roof system.
Think of it as your vehicle. When you purchase a car, you have to do preventative maintenance items along the way for your car to get you 100000 - 200000 miles; some cars get even more than that. But you have to do things like changing the oil routinely, do your tune-ups when you need to do your tune-ups, do those items that will help you get the longevity out of your vehicle so that it doesn't prematurely fail.
That is the purpose of preventative maintenance. But just like a vehicle, you still might have to change some tires. You still might have to change the brake pads. You might have a couple of issues within the engine that has to be worked on from time to time throughout the life cycle of that vehicle.
But at least by doing the oil changes and doing your tune-ups on that vehicle, you've at least avoided making sure that you will have a premature failure—the same thing with preventative maintenance. If you do not do preventative maintenance on your roof, you are pretty much ensuring that you will not get the full life cycle out of that roof that you should get and the longevity out of that asset.
Hopefully, that helps clear up the misconception. We definitely recommend getting a preventative maintenance program going.
