Roof Painting How To Paint A Tile Roof

Easy Flow Gutters is a roof painting specialist company that use their own qualified and experienced painters and paining contractors who paint many types of new and old home roofs such as a flat roof, metal roof, tile roof, warehouse roof and tin roof. These roof painting services are carried out by Easy Flow Gutters throughout South Africa stretching from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Roofs are made from a variety of materials and the first task that must be completed before any type of roof painting can start is the cleaning of the roof, no matter what material the roof has been made from. The more money you have available to clean your roof the better as you will be able to afford the best equipment and materials to clean your roof with.

The best way to clean a roof and prepare it for roof painting is to water blast the surface of the roof using a high pressure water blaster. Alternatively, depending again on your budget, you can use only a broom together with a hose pipe to sweep and hose down the surface of the roof. Another way of cleaning a roof is to apply appropriate roof cleaning chemicals to specifically remove all the mould present in the roof’s surface. In South Africa a tiled roof is one of the most common roofs, over and above the popular corrugated iron and tin that needs to be cleaned and painted. Easy Flow suggests that roof painting a tile roof be conducted in the following manner. The main reason why a tile roof needs to be painted is due to the fact that the existing glaze has been weathered away and the roof now looks old and ugly. The main issue with a tile roof is its ridge capping.

These in most cases will need to be repaired or replaced before the cleaning and roof painting begins. This task is known and referred to in the roof painting trade as the ‘pointing and bedding of ridge caps’. The majority of these will need re-bedding where the ridge cap is removed and re-bedded in a fresh mix of mortar. The term ‘pointing’ refers to the task where the ridge cap is not removed but the outer mortar is refurbished with a fresh new layer of mortar which is applied over the existing old mortar. If you have had this type of repair done to your roof then you must make sure you clean your roof afterwards, with a garden hose or with a high pressure water blaster or at least clean the roof with a broom, to get rid of any loose bits of mortar lying around or sticking to the ridge caps repair job that you have just completed.

Visit http://www.easyflowgutters.co.za/products-and-services/roof-painting/ to contact Easy Flow Gutters and request a quote to have roof painiting done on your roofs.

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