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I have a Victorian house with a metal shingled roof. I am in search of a good, rubber based, metal roof sealant that can be brush painted on. I found a picture online of a product called “Water Blok”, being applied. It is the exact color I am looking for as my roof was painted red 20 years ago and it looked great until the sun caused it to fade and wear off. Now it is starting to rust and needs to be painted again. I tried to find “Water Blok” but was unable to find it. Can anyone recommend a good rubber based roof sealant of the kind I described that can be tinted the color I desire? Thank you all for any help you can provide. Jim Patrick

Searched the web, found EPDM Coatings, liquid rubber roof sealer, in the five gallon pail they list red roof tile color. For some reason, they only list black and white in smaller amounts. No idea if this is what you are looking for, but it seems close! They sell direct to the customer, not thru stores. Phone 855-281-0940 I have no direct or indirect knowledge of the company or it’s products, so you need to research it, and make your own decisions! EPDMcoatings.com is the web page.

Jim

I have to believe that a rubberized product is the last thing you'd want to put on the embossed shingles. Like all coatings, it will eventually fail, but unlike traditional paints, there will be areas which will remain stubbornly adhered during the next repair, only to peel off at the worst possible time.

Additionally, I'm relatively certain that you will lose a good deal of definition of the embossement with such a coating as it will invariably be more viscous than traditional coatings.

When my parents restored their 1860's home, dad bought salvage rights to a number of teardowns in order to salvage enough shingles to complete their home. Regular cleaning, priming, and painting was the price to keep up the thing. Living near a chemical plant in E. TN, with the oxidizing nature of the rain that falls there, keeping paint on both the house and roof has been a near constant labor of love.

Good luck with your project...I don't envy you regardless of what you use.

Why don’t you pay a reputable local roofing company to come out and look at your roof and make a specific product recommendation ?


FJ

There really aren't many roofers who will mess with maintaining an embossed tin-shingle roof, unless it entails stripping it off and replacing with new material. Add to that that pretty much anyone with a hammer is now headed to Ft. Myers, places Jim at a real disadvantage right now.