A roof makeover can have a big impact on your home’s overall appearance, but tearing down your old roof and replacing it with a new one is not always the best course of action. While there is truly nothing like a new roof to help refresh your home, there is still a way to give your roof a breath of new life: roof coating.
Why go for roof coating?
At first glance, roof coatings may look like they don’t offer much. Does roof coating plug up your roof leaks? No. Does it restore warped or curled up panels? No. Does it get rid of rust spots? It can hide them, but you really need to scrape those off before applying coating. However, what roof coatings can do is to prevent those problems from happening in the first place. Plus, there’s also the fact that a fresh coat can make your roof look brand-new.
A Shield for Your Shield
Just like how a roof works as a shield to keep your home safe from the weather, roof coatings act as a shield for your roof to reduce the rate of wear and tear it can experience. Depending on the type of roof coating applied, it can help reduce the amount of heat absorbed by your roof, form a waterproof membrane over its surface, make it more resistant to thermal expansion, or even all three of those.
Energy-efficient Coatings
Coating your roof doesn’t just protect your roof, it can also reduce your home’s overall energy consumption and lower your monthly bill. How? Roof coating can help reduce the amount of heat absorbed by your roof, which in turn lessens any potential heat it can transfer to your home. Without unnecessary heat being absorbed into your home, you are able to stabilize indoor temperature better. This means your HVAC system need not work overtime to meet your ideal temperature, preventing it from needlessly guzzling power, which reflects on your energy bill.
Complete your fresh roof treatment with the right gutter. Head on over to Part 3 to learn more about getting seamless gutters as we wrap up this blog series.