In 2017, I finished a 14 year renovation of my roof (new joists included).
I was looking into putting down a final top cover of EPDM rubber. Had one place lined up and a friend to help, but what killed the project is the roofing supplier said his boom truck operator was sick. After months of runaround, I moved on.
Found a company called EPDM Coatings that offered a product with a primer coat that was for asphalt roofs like mine. It consisted of Pro-Flex Primer and then EPDM liquid rubber.
The primer was to be applied and 48 hours later the rubber gets applied while the primer is still sticky. Followed the procedure and finally had a waterproof roof with a 30 year guaranty.
2 years later, I find some of the EPDM has pockets of water under it and was billowing up. Noticed it flapping when I blew the leaves off with a blower. Contacted the company. To make a long story short, I'm out $4700 for that product. They didn't stand behind their warranty. I even contacted many lawyers and none of them would return my calls after giving details of the case.
So in 2021, in Home Depot, I see a new product, Henry Tropicool 887, white silicone roof coating. It says "lifetime guarantee" on the package. I ended up buying 8 buckets of it for about $2300 and re coating my entire root. This time, it's not gonna have anymore problems, I thought.
Then this April, we had a brief ten minute downpour and a day later, water was leaking from the light fixtures in the livingroom ceiling. So I go up on the roof and I find there's a good sized area where the new 3/4" pressure treated plywood is soft when I walk on it.
3 weeks ago, I had suitable weather so I got to work and cut out 64 sf of roof decking. Found out my pressure treated joists were starting to rot too. Had to cut out the rot, treat with copper Napthanate (now over $70/gal) and lay in new 2x12 sections to shore up the rotting joists. $1200 in materials (Tropicool is now up to $470 for a bucket) spent to fix it. While I was re coating, I found three geysers of water spouting from three pinholes in the Tropicool silicone layer. Leak found. But other parts of the roof have bigger holes in the coating.
So now I'm in a battle with Henry Company to get them to replace the product. I don't have $4000 for 8 more buckets of the stuff, but if I don't recoat the roof before winter, more of my roof will get destroyed. And I'm too old to be going up on roofs now.
I was looking into putting down a final top cover of EPDM rubber. Had one place lined up and a friend to help, but what killed the project is the roofing supplier said his boom truck operator was sick. After months of runaround, I moved on.
Found a company called EPDM Coatings that offered a product with a primer coat that was for asphalt roofs like mine. It consisted of Pro-Flex Primer and then EPDM liquid rubber.
The primer was to be applied and 48 hours later the rubber gets applied while the primer is still sticky. Followed the procedure and finally had a waterproof roof with a 30 year guaranty.
2 years later, I find some of the EPDM has pockets of water under it and was billowing up. Noticed it flapping when I blew the leaves off with a blower. Contacted the company. To make a long story short, I'm out $4700 for that product. They didn't stand behind their warranty. I even contacted many lawyers and none of them would return my calls after giving details of the case.
So in 2021, in Home Depot, I see a new product, Henry Tropicool 887, white silicone roof coating. It says "lifetime guarantee" on the package. I ended up buying 8 buckets of it for about $2300 and re coating my entire root. This time, it's not gonna have anymore problems, I thought.
Then this April, we had a brief ten minute downpour and a day later, water was leaking from the light fixtures in the livingroom ceiling. So I go up on the roof and I find there's a good sized area where the new 3/4" pressure treated plywood is soft when I walk on it.
3 weeks ago, I had suitable weather so I got to work and cut out 64 sf of roof decking. Found out my pressure treated joists were starting to rot too. Had to cut out the rot, treat with copper Napthanate (now over $70/gal) and lay in new 2x12 sections to shore up the rotting joists. $1200 in materials (Tropicool is now up to $470 for a bucket) spent to fix it. While I was re coating, I found three geysers of water spouting from three pinholes in the Tropicool silicone layer. Leak found. But other parts of the roof have bigger holes in the coating.
So now I'm in a battle with Henry Company to get them to replace the product. I don't have $4000 for 8 more buckets of the stuff, but if I don't recoat the roof before winter, more of my roof will get destroyed. And I'm too old to be going up on roofs now.
