For those of you with tin roofs that are beginning to rust you might want to try this.

At the other place we had a garage with a corregated, galvanized tin roof. It was original eqpt, about 40 yrs old and was beginning to look it, showing some fairly large patches of rust. I applied some alumacoat with the appropriate applicater. It lasted about 8yrs, then I applied another application. Definitely a money, time and labor saver that potentially can help the roof last 100yrs or more.

All I did was sweep the roof to get the leaves off and "painted" this stuff on. Its available in 5gal buckets or 1 gal. Its probably known by other names too. Its kinda thick but brushable, has some kind of fibreous material in it, Tar based with aluminum in it so it dries silver.

-- john leake (natlivent@pcpros.net), September 05, 2000

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where did you get it? we have a standing seam roof and it needs alot of work before winter. thanks

-- renee oneill (oneillsr@home.com), September 05, 2000.

I have used the stuff designed for mobile home roofs and it works good too. From the description it sounds like the same sort of sealant.

-- Marci (ajourend@libby.org), September 05, 2000.

A roof ceiler/coating used for roof applications on mobile homes as well as other roofs has the ingred you describe. It comes in either alum. or white. One brand name is "Cool Seal". It will have the "heavies" in the bottom of the bucket and will need to be stirred completely in order to not have the mixture too thin. If it's applied correctly it should last for a bunch of years. It seals and also insulates. It can also be bought in "wet" aplication when the roofs are damp. About $25. for 5 gal bucket-wholesale. Matt. 24:44

-- hoot (hoot@pcinetwork.com), September 05, 2000.

TYPO! Roof "SEALER" instead of "ceiler"! Dumb, just dumb. Matt. 24:44

-- hoot (hoot@pcinetwork.com), September 05, 2000.

another ? . the roof was painted about 8 yrs. ago w/ johndeere machine paint, do not ask me why. it is peeling in places should we sand blast it off or scrape it and does it need to be primed before you use the paint? i hate hate hate standing on the roof so the less work the better!

-- renee oneill (oneillsr@home.com), September 05, 2000.

Would it be worth while painting the roof with this stuff when it was new, before it started to rust? Do you think it would help the roof to last even longer?

-- Kathleen Sanderson (stonycft@worldpath.net), September 05, 2000.

Kathleen: Yes, I think it would be worthwhile doing that.

rene? I guess what I'd do is scrape the roof where the paint is peeling and apply this stuff over it. Hoot is right. Its the same stuff used on mobile home roofs. No priming necessary.

-- john leake (natlivent@pcpros.net), September 05, 2000.

We also use the roof coat for mobile homes on the hen house and the other out buildings we roofed before we found the galva-lum roofing material. A really great trick is to just "paint" it on with cheapo mops that you can then throw away, no stooping and nothing to clean up, which you couldn't clean it up anyway :) Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), September 05, 2000.

I work in the home dept. of a Fred Meyer and we sell several types of coatings described above. I'd say the best is made by Snow-Roof systems. They have several types of product, but most are made to go over their undercoating. The undercoating just gets brushed on a resonably clean roof and when it dries is pretty flexible, reminds me of a bicycle tire. Good stuff, I highly recommend it (even if you can't get it from my store). When I finally get my own place I plan on using Snow-Roof stuff.

Hope this helps a bit.

-- Chris Stogdill (cstogdill@rmci.net), September 06, 2000.