Meet Tremco’s AlphaGuard™ BIO roof restoration system

By Emma Peterson.

This product is a fast, durable and odorless solution for roof restoration.  

At The Coffee Shops™, we love hearing about all of the innovative products and systems coming out of the industry. Recently, Josh Johnson of WTI and Seth Schmenk from Tremco stopped by to talk about one of their unique roofing solutions — the AlphaGuard™ (AG) BIO roof restoration system. AG BIO is a powerful, reinforced roofing and waterproofing solution. Seth explained, “AlphaGuard BIO is a polyurethane-based restoration system. When you’re installing it, you are essentially creating a brand-new membrane on top of the existing roofing system, which is going to be able to extend that roof life upwards of 20 to 30 years.”

One of the unique factors about AG BIO is that it is 100% odorless. This, in combination with being a restoration system rather than a reroofing solution, makes AG BIO a great option for spaces that cannot be emptied. Seth elaborated, “A lot of our niche business is in schools, hospitals, arenas and places like that where they're having events or performing critical services, and we have to be able to work over their heads and do those projects while they can still perform their daily tasks.”

Josh shared a bit of context from working with AG BIO in the field. He said, “You have part A and Part B and once mixed you have about a 20-minute window to where you need to apply that before it starts to cure.” He pointed out that, while this means you have to work quickly at times, it can actually be a benefit. Josh explained, “While you have to work with it quickly, once you put it down then it quickly cures to where now you can start to walk on it again and get a topcoat on it... You might put it on thousands of square feet in the morning and by afternoon we can walk right back onto that product and start to apply the topcoat. So that's a huge benefit for us installers knowing it's a quick curing product.”

You can learn more about the AlphaGuard BIO roof restoration system on Tremco’s website.