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An employee of Bell-Aire Home Improvement works on the Bluff View Intermediate School roof. (Photos by Ted Pennekamp)

A roll of metal goes through a machine which shapes the metal into the ridged panels (standing seam metal) that will go onto the Bluff View roof.

 

Bluff View getting new roof

By Ted Pennekamp

 

Anyone driving or walking past Bluff View Intermediate School in recent weeks may have noticed that roofing work has been underway.

The entire Bluff View roof is being replaced due to severe hail storms in July of 2015. The roofing work began on July 22 of this year and is expected to last a few more weeks, said Bluff View Head of Maintenance Jim Stoehr. 

Bel-Aire Home Improvement of Platteville and Dubuque is conducting the $756,854 project, most of which involves replacing all of the standing seam metal. There was also damage to the exhaust hoods, downspouts, facia and air conditioners.

The roof was declared a total loss and the entire project is being paid for by the school district’s insurance company.

Stoehr explained that the roof was found to be a total loss because of the number of dents per square foot. He said that most people probably would hardly notice the majority of the dents, but even small dents need to be repaired because the paint can peel and areas can crack and cause leaking and much more damage over the ensuing years.

A storage shed and the baseball field dugouts sustained relatively minor damage on the high school grounds, which also was paid for by the school’s insurance.

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