Billy Bob’s Texas Hires DFW Urethane & Pool Insulation and Roofing to Update The SPF Roof on Their Historic Honky Tonk
DFW Urethane is proud to announce that we’ve been contracted by Billy Bob’s Texas along with Clayton Pool of Pool Insulation and Roofing to recoat their spray polyurethane foam (SPF) roof and give it a tune-up!
When it comes to Texas history and tradition, especially in Fort Worth, it’s hard to think of anything that’s had a bigger impact than Billy Bob’s.
Built in 1910, Billy Bob’s used to be an open-air barn that was a home for prize cattle before the Fort Worth Stock Show.
In 1936, the City of Fort Worth decided to enclose Billy Bob’s as part of the Texas Centennial Project — that’s right, even back then, it was already a Texas Tradition!
Livestock events continued to be held in the building until the 1940s when it was briefly used as an airplane factor during the war. In the 1950s, Billy Bob’s underwent another huge transformation — it was turned into a department store!
It wasn’t until the 1980s that Billy Bob’s became what it is today — a massive entertainment center that’s known as “The World’s Largest Honky Tonk.”
In fact, shortly after they opened is when Clayton Pool of Pool Insulation and Roofing originally installed the SPF roofing system, which is still in amazing shape even today!
Since that time, some of the biggest names in country music and classic rock have made their way through, including Alabama, ZZ Top, Garth Brooks, and even the legendary Johnny Cash.
With over 200 well-known acts making their way through Billy Bob’s over the decades, it’s no wonder it’s been named the “Country Music Club of the Year” 12 times by the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association.
That SPF roofing system stood strong until 2000, but it eventually needed to be recoated. Billy Bob’s called Clayton for help — he recoated the roof and brought it back into tip-top shape.
Twenty-three years later, that coating (and the SPF roofing system itself) need an update. Thanks to Clayton, who vouched for DFW Urethane, Billy Bob’s was happy to bring us onto the new project that’s going to start in June.
They’ve been so happy with the SPF roof that Clayton installed that they only wanted to work with someone Clayton knew and recommended personally! We’re going to give the roof and coating system an update to really make them shine for the next 23 years.
SPF Roofing and Everest Systems’ Coating Stand the Test of Time
When Pool Insulation and Roofing were asked to install the original SPF roof on Billy Bob’s in the 1980s, they had their work cut out for them — their existing tar roof of over 100,000 square feet was filled with leaks.
Since Billy Bob’s has to keep its A/C running 24/7, not only were they having to clean up every time it rained, but they were also spending huge amounts of money for conditioned air that was leaking out of the building.
Over the next 43 years, Billy Bob’s didn’t have a single leak — not one!
On top of that, Everest Systems’ elastomeric coating system has stood the test of time, keeping the roof in tip-top shape despite how much the roof gets used.
The amount of money Billy Bob’s has saved over the years from the combination of SPF roofing’s massive R-value and the power of the coating system to reflect the harsh Texas sun is literally impossible to calculate.
Billy Bob’s has unique A/C needs — the A/C must be run 24/7 to keep a very large space that’s used all day and all night comfortable in the extremely hot summer days and nights.
Because of this, maintenance workers have to get up on the roof very regularly to work on critical HVAC systems, sometimes with very little notice.
They may have to bring equipment up onto the roof that can be hard on the SPF and elastomeric coating — there’s just no getting around that.
This means the SPF roof that Pool Insulation and Roofing installed so many years ago and the coating from Everest Systems have had a hard life. If anything, this just makes the fact that it’s lasted 43 years even more impressive.
Even with all that use, the roof never developed a single leak.
A Modern Update
SPF roofing and coating systems have improved somewhat over the last 43 years, so even though Billy Bob’s roof is still in great shape, a modern update will ensure it makes it through another few decades.
In fact, because the roof has been so rugged over the decades despite everything, only about 1% of those 100,000 square feet really need to be fixed up.
Though no water was able to leak into the structure, some water has made its way into the roof itself and become trapped in the SPF. We’ll open those areas up, dry them, and then reapply new, high-density SPF to bring those areas level with the rest of the roof.
We’ll then wash the entire roof to get it extremely clean, scarf off the damaged areas, prime them, and apply SPF.
After that, we’ll reapply Everest Systems’ HT (high tensile) coating system to ensure Billy Bob’s can continue to enjoy the hail, wind, and sun protection that SPF (with an elastomeric coating) has given them for decades.
We’ll also install Yellow Spaghetti walk pads around the HVAC units. This will prevent future damage from the necessary maintenance required for the units to keep Billy Bob’s customers cool, calm, and collected!
And they’ll save a ton of money on A/C in the process.
This project is slated to begin in late June 2023 — we can’t wait to get started!
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Since our founding in 1986, DFW Urethane has installed hundreds of commercial roofs.
Our roofing expertise spans a wide variety of commercial and industrial environments and also extends to insulation and sealing services.
Let’s talk about what an SPF roofing system with an elastomeric coating can do for you.