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Extend the Life of Your Roof
A roof coating provides an additional layer of protection for flat roofs, helping defend the surface from moisture, sunlight, weather exposure, and everyday wear. A properly selected and professionally applied coating can help extend its useful life and delay the need for a full roof replacement.
We use silicone and acrylic coatings, each of which has different advantages. Before recommending a coating, we'll evaluate the condition of your existing roof and look for damage, leaks, deterioration, and other issues that may need to be addressed first. We can then help determine which coating is best for your property and explain what you can expect from the process.
Extend the life of your roof and keep your business secure with roof coatings. Call 1-855-FIX-ROOF or get in touch with us online to learn more.
Advantages of Roof Coatings
Roof coatings can offer several benefits to your roofing system. Rather than replacing an entire roof, a coating can provide an additional protective layer over the existing surface and help address some of the effects of weather exposure. Depending on the type of coating and the roofing system, potential advantages include:
Extended roof life
The right coating can help protect an existing roof and potentially extend its useful service life.
Added moisture protection
Coatings can help reduce water intrusion.
Protection from weather exposure
A coating can help shield your roof from sunlight, rain, snow, and other environmental conditions.
Fewer disruptions
Coating an existing roof is generally faster and disrupts day-to-day operations less than a roof replacement.
Improved roof performance
Sealing and protecting your existing roofing surface can help maintain the system and address certain areas of wear before they become more significant problems.
Not a Substitute for Repairs
A roof coating is not a substitute for necessary repairs or replacement when a roofing system has extensive damage or deterioration. However, it can help to extend the life and improve performance of many roofing systems.
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Silicone Coatings
Silicone coatings are manufactured with a high solids dispersion of up to 100% silicone. In the last decade, silicone coatings have gained market share in the commercial roofing market due to their excellent weather and ponding water resistance, as well as their long-term flexible properties.
Other coating systems typically cannot withstand prolonged periods of ponding water, which makes silicone a low-maintenance solution.
Silicone coatings are moisture cured and humidity can even promote their cure. In some applications, the use of silicone coatings can eliminate the need for a primer.
Pros: Silicone coatings weather better than other coatings with almost no erosion and they don’t get hard or brittle. Silicone is also good in ponding water situations.
Cons: Silicones hold dirt and rain acts as a cleaner; therefore the material loses reflectivity over time. It is also hard to adhere to silicone, so when a roof needs re-coating, you must either remove the coating completely or re-coat with a compatible silicone.
Acrylic Coatings
Acrylic coatings were originally developed in the 1970’s to provide ultra-violet protection for sprayed urethane foam applications. These types of coatings are now used across a variety of roof membrane surfaces, including single-ply membranes and metal systems.
Acrylic-based materials provide excellent resistance to UV radiation and have the inherent flexibility required to withstand dimensional instability of most roof membrane surfaces.
Cure time of these products is highly weather-dependent and cold weather or high humidity will impede curing. Ideal curing takes place with warm weather and low humidity.
Pros: Acrylic coatings offer an excellent balance of cost and performance. They are highly reflective, UV resistant, and easy to work with.
Cons: Acrylics will lose thickness with weathering, need to be applied at 50°F or above, and typically do not perform well in ponding-water situations.
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Protect Your Roof From Moisture, Sunlight, Weathering and More
Roof coatings are a great way to make your roof last longer and provide better protection for your business. If you’re interested in roof coatings for your buildings, get in touch.