Superior Ballast & Roof Vacuuming Services

Removing roof ballast, the RK Way, rather than with your own personnel, eliminates the most strenuous activity for ballasted low-slope roofs, saving you valuable project completion time, costly labor, and risk of personnel injuries.

For over 40 years, we have been focused on delivering excellent service to all our roofing partners. We know that our ability to complete the job safely and in a timely manner allows you to meet and exceed the expectations of your clients. We have completed well over 75,000 projects, which gives us a unique expertise with any type of roof surface. We are 100% Employee Owned & Operated! Each team member knows that every job matters. We think and act like the business owners we are: from hiring, to safety training, to equipment – we want the best so we can provide the best.

Removing roof ballast, the RK Way, rather than with your own personnel, eliminates the most strenuous activity for ballasted low-slope roofs, saving you valuable project completion time, costly labor, and risk of personnel injuries.

This applies to any wet or dry roof vacuum and ballast work. Plus, RK’s methods provide significantly cleaner surfaces due to our self-contained, state of the art vacuum units.

worker performing ballast removal service

Single Ply and IRMA systemsBallast Removal

RK HydroVac offers a leading-edge alternative to traditional roof ballast removal. Our vacuum system removes rock and other similar ballast quickly, safely, and most of all, neatly. Single-ply tear-offs and inverted roof membrane assembly jobs can now be done with less waste and less stress on your labor crews.

one pass dry vac service by RK Hydrovac worker

One-PassDry Vac

Replacing built-up and gravel foam roofs can now happen more efficiently with a state-of-the-art vacuum process that removes loose material in a single pass rather than repeated brooming and shoveling. The RK HydroVac Dry Vac also leaves far less waste in the surrounding job site and minimizes clean-up and disposal costs.

When roof surfaces must be completely clean of all prior ballast, adhesive, and other debris, RK’s Wet-Vac System is a high-powered, highly-effective option that prepares the roof for any new roofing system without ponding water or additional drying methods.

Instead of dealing with unreliable dumpster rental companies that don’t respect your timelines, RK HydroVac offers simple one-call scheduling and timely delivery of dumpster trailers to our roofing partners in the Charlotte, NC and Dayton, OH areas. We’ve been working with roofing companies for more than 40 years, and our commitment means you can count on us.

RK’s Pneumatic Ballasting System eliminates roof membrane and crushed insulation damage caused by carting heavy gravel buggies across new roof systems. Pneumatic ballasting also eliminates problems such as reaching hard-to-get areas, electrical lines, double handling on multi-level roofs, etc.

We serve the roofing industry

Since 1981, RK HydroVac has been leading the way in providing clean and safe environments to all kinds of commercial, industrial, and municipal construction job sites.
dry pass vacuum service by RK Hydrovac worker