Roof Restoration 'To paint or not to paint'
By Guardian Roofing|July 24, 2014
Roof Restoration ‘To paint or not to paint’
Whether it is leaks, long overdue maintenance, or quick fixes at Guardian Roofing, we deal with a lot roofing issues. However, a question we get asked regularly is ‘does our roof really need painting’. It’s a hard question to answer and can be looked at from a few different angles.
1.Aesthetic Appearance
One of the main reasons for restoring a roof including painting would be to make the roof look nicer. The first thing someone sees when entering your property is your roof. So why not put as much care into that as you would the painting on your weatherboards or the picket fence?
Often one may purchase a home and dislike the current colour scheme of the house. Changing the colour of the outside of the house can dramatically contrast the roof colour. Thus, it is often necessary to change the roofing colour as well.
2.Selling
If you are selling a home, painting a roof can add countless value. It gives the buyer a sense that the home has been well looked after. If the roof looks good, then everything under it must be in good condition as well. Often real estate agents and interior designer employ our services to paint a roof before it goes to sale. Sometimes painting a roof halfway through a sale campaign can be effective to get a bit more response if required.
3.Strength
There has been much debate and will always be much debate on whether there are structural benefits’ to painting a roof tile. From our experience, a correctly prepared and painted roof tile will be strengthened. It is obvious that the better the surface of a porous object, the better condition it will be kept in. It is important to note however that painting an extremely porous roof tile or coating a metal roof with extreme rust in not going to make that surface water tight and fix all the problems. There are products available that may prolong water ingress or stop it temporally. Typically, these roofs or roofing materials need to be replaced.
A metal roof can often be restored and this is a vital aspect of roof maintenance. Unlike a tiled roof, a metal roof can have the damage repaired (unless too corroded) and then surface treated with rust killed and neutralised followed by a re-coating to a preferred colour.
There are many reasons to paint and restore a roof and often the choice will come down to budget. Don’t be put off by comments out there that painting a roof has no benefits other than aesthetics because it just isn’t true. If painting a roof is something you have decided on getting done, the next step is finding a reputable company to do the job. The last thing you want is to try and save money by finding a local with no experience or skill or a fly by nighter advertising on power poles ect.
Often these types of jobs will cost the customers a lot more money shortly down the track when all the materials start wearing off. They won’t be able to call these companies as they change their details regularly and will need to engage a reputable roofing to rectify the works. Best to safe and go with a dependable company from the start.
Whether it is leaks, long overdue maintenance, or quick fixes at Guardian Roofing, we deal with a lot roofing issues. However, a question we get asked regularly is ‘does our roof really need painting’. It’s a hard question to answer and can be looked at from a few different angles.
1.Aesthetic Appearance
One of the main reasons for restoring a roof including painting would be to make the roof look nicer. The first thing someone sees when entering your property is your roof. So why not put as much care into that as you would the painting on your weatherboards or the picket fence?
Often one may purchase a home and dislike the current colour scheme of the house. Changing the colour of the outside of the house can dramatically contrast the roof colour. Thus, it is often necessary to change the roofing colour as well.
2.Selling
If you are selling a home, painting a roof can add countless value. It gives the buyer a sense that the home has been well looked after. If the roof looks good, then everything under it must be in good condition as well. Often real estate agents and interior designer employ our services to paint a roof before it goes to sale. Sometimes painting a roof halfway through a sale campaign can be effective to get a bit more response if required.
3.Strength
There has been much debate and will always be much debate on whether there are structural benefits’ to painting a roof tile. From our experience, a correctly prepared and painted roof tile will be strengthened. It is obvious that the better the surface of a porous object, the better condition it will be kept in. It is important to note however that painting an extremely porous roof tile or coating a metal roof with extreme rust in not going to make that surface water tight and fix all the problems. There are products available that may prolong water ingress or stop it temporally. Typically, these roofs or roofing materials need to be replaced.
A metal roof can often be restored and this is a vital aspect of roof maintenance. Unlike a tiled roof, a metal roof can have the damage repaired (unless too corroded) and then surface treated with rust killed and neutralised followed by a re-coating to a preferred colour.
There are many reasons to paint and restore a roof and often the choice will come down to budget. Don’t be put off by comments out there that painting a roof has no benefits other than aesthetics because it just isn’t true. If painting a roof is something you have decided on getting done, the next step is finding a reputable company to do the job. The last thing you want is to try and save money by finding a local with no experience or skill or a fly by nighter advertising on power poles ect.
Often these types of jobs will cost the customers a lot more money shortly down the track when all the materials start wearing off. They won’t be able to call these companies as they change their details regularly and will need to engage a reputable roofing to rectify the works. Best to safe and go with a dependable company from the start.
