All-sides screening language
Plan reviewers want elevation drawings from every angle, not a catalog cut sheet.
DALLAS–FORT WORTH ROOFTOP SCREENING
RTU Screening DFW — Built for Plan Review
Custom Mechanical Equipment fabricates steel rooftop screens sized to your roof, your parapet line, and your plan-review submittal — shop drawings included, field cuts not.
THE DFW PROBLEM
Plan review flags screening. Your schedule doesn't care.
Building departments across Dallas, Fort Worth, and the inner-ring suburbs require sections, heights relative to parapet, and attachment loads before they stamp rooftop mechanical work. Generic fence catalogs and kit walls don't include those drawings. We do.
Height + attachment on one sheet
If your submittal separates the structural from the architectural, expect a comment cycle.
AHJ-ready, not sales-drawing ready
We issue mechanical roof screen details your examiner can read and stamp.
WHAT WE FABRICATE
RTU screening DFW for every rooftop condition
Solid Panels — Full Visual Block
Zoning or design guidelines require the RTU to disappear from street view. Solid 26-gauge steel panels conceal packaged units, exhaust fans, and cooling towers without leaving raw, unfinished metal on the roof.
Perforated & Louvered — Airflow Without a Coil Choke
North Texas summers demand airflow. Mechanical gives you a free-area number; you need a pattern that hits it. Perforated faces soften the view. Louvered layouts define open area in the shop, not with a field drill.
Non-Penetrating Systems
Membrane warranties and existing insulation often restrict new penetrations. Ballasted and attachment-engineered base systems meet your engineer of record's requirements — not a kit that usually works.
Wind & Storm-Load Screening
DFW wind design loads and severe weather exposure affect every roof screen calculation. We coordinate with your structural engineer so the wall survives the storm season, not just permit issuance.
35 YEARS ON SCREENING ONLY
We don't do general metal fab that also does roofs.
Screening is the entire scope. RTUs, exhaust fans, cooling towers, louvers, wind loads, plan review comments. That focus is why repeat GCs call before pricing alternates — and why our drawing sets don't surprise building department examiners.
- Zero field-cut kits
Every run drawn to your equipment map and roof edges before the boom truck shows up.
- AHJ-ready packages
Plans, sections, and details that name attachment, height, and finish. We stay through the redlines.
- Freight and install on one call
Fabrication, delivery windows, and field crews on one thread.
FROM THE FIELD
GCs and HVAC firms who've been through plan review with us
We had a plan review comment on rooftop screening two weeks before turnover. CME turned shop drawings in four days and the comment cleared on the first resubmission.
— Project Manager, Mid-size DFW GC
Every other vendor sent us a catalog. CME sent sections and elevations sized to our parapet. That's the difference between a submittal and a sales sheet.
— Senior Estimator, Commercial HVAC Contractor
START YOUR SCOPE
Tell us the roof. We'll tell you the package.
Share the roof plan, the permit number, or just the equipment schedule. We respond with a timeline and next steps — not a catalog PDF.
Or call us directly
2101 Hall Blvd, Ponca City, OK 74601
Fabrication in Oklahoma. Service area: Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.