Roof Portfolio Planning Guide.

A workbook for teams with many flat roofs: build the inventory, set the order, plan 30 years of spend, and document energy and waste.

Tablet showing a thermal image of a flat roof

PLANNING GUIDEInventory, triage, budget, report.

Planning tool

Roof portfolio planner

Add each roof. The planner ranks them, lays out what to restore, recoat or monitor and when, and shows a yearly budget as a low-to-high range you can edit.

Planning estimate, not a quote. Budgets use RC Coatings’ typical ranges, adjusted for each roof’s condition, type and size, and show a low and a high case. Typical range; final price after free assessment. Prices vary by region, access and roof condition; a free assessment sets the final price. Every action depends on an assessment of that roof.

Name or address	Sq ft	Roof type	Age (yrs)	Condition

Adjust plan settings and prices

Plan settings and cost assumptions (editable)

First plan year

Years to plan

Annual budget cap ($, optional)Moves lower-priority work to later years

Recoat interval (years)Match the written warranty term. One of the systems we install, Uniflex, offers 10, 15 and 20-year terms; other systems follow their own.

Age to assess a good roof (years)Your planning threshold

Budget poor roofs as

Coating systemUrethane sits at the higher end, acrylic lower

Restoration, low ($/sq ft)Blank = typical range for each roof ($3–$9)

Restoration, high ($/sq ft)Blank = typical range for each roof

Recoat, low ($/sq ft)Blank = estimate: today’s restoration range for each roof

Recoat, high ($/sq ft)Blank = estimate

Cost escalation (% per year)Estimate. Default 4.8%: BLS construction-input producer prices, Dec 2014–Sep 2026^[1]. Applied to every future-year cost

Leak repair allowance, low ($/sq ft of roof)Estimate: about 5% of the area at replacement cost

Leak repair allowance, highEstimate

Tear-off and replace, low ($/sq ft)Typical range

Tear-off and replace, high ($/sq ft)Typical range

Sources and notes (1)

U.S. BLS Producer Price Index, Inputs to new nonresidential construction, excluding capital investment, labor and imports (WPUIP231200): 100.0 in Dec 2014, 173.212 in Sep 2026, a 4.8% compound annual change. Via FRED. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPUIP231200 (accessed Oct 20, 2026)

Guide outline

Roof Portfolio Planning Guide

A planning workbook for facility, real estate and sustainability teams with many flat roofs. 8 pages (PDF): what is inside:

Build the inventory.
1. One row per roof: address, area, roof type, age, last work, warranty and term.
2. What sits under it: production, tenants, sales floor, storage.
3. Template: roof inventory sheet.
Triage by condition and risk.
1. Condition grades: good, fair, poor, with what each means for restoration.
2. Risk to operations: what a leak would stop.
3. A simple condition × risk grid to set the order.
Restore, repair or replace.
1. What makes a roof a restoration candidate: dry assembly, sound surface, workable drainage.
2. When replacement is the right answer.
3. How to use the estimator with your bids.
Plan 30 years of spend.
1. Coat and recoat cycles tied to the written warranty term. Uniflex, one of the systems RC Coatings installs, offers 10, 15, and 20-year labor and materials warranties.
2. Escalation and discounting for capital plans and reserve studies.
3. How to use the lifecycle planner.
Energy, waste and reporting.
1. Cool-roof basics and the public sources to cite.
2. Debris avoided: how to estimate it per roof.
3. kWh to emissions: choosing and documenting the factor.
Keep the roofs in the plan.
1. Spring and fall inspections, drains, and the maintenance log a warranty expects.
2. When to re-run the numbers.
Checklists. Inventory fields, assessment prep, bid comparison, reporting inputs.

Generated image: aerial view of a business park with office and light-industrial buildings with white, gray and dark flat roofs

The offer

Start with one building

Multi-site roof assessment
Book the first building. List the other sites in the notes field, and we plan the walk order with you.
Written findings per roof
Condition, drainage, moisture and previous repairs, and a plain next step: repair, restore, or replace.
Use it in the plan
Drop the findings into the estimator and lifecycle planner, or your own capital plan.

Book a multi-site roof assessment

Book the first building on our scheduling page. List the other sites in the notes field and we will plan the walk order with you. Questions? Call (801) 515-3812.

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