Roof Painting - How To Paint A Tile Roof Continued

Easy Flow Gutters provides roof painting in Johannesburg South Africa. The company has painted many roofs namely a flat roof, metal roof, tile roof, warehouse roof and a tin roof. Paining a tile roof was discussed by Easy Flow Gutters in a previous article and now continues. If the tile roof that you are painting is in a terrible condition and is unpleasant to look at because all the colour has been weathered off the tiles, the best course of action to take would be to first clean the roof with a high pressure water hose or apply a chemical cleaning agent and then you need to seal the roof. The majority of roof sealers or primers dry clear. The goal here is to apply as much sealant as is practically possible onto the surface of the tiles. After applying the sealant or primer generously you need to let the roof stand so that the sealant or primer can soak into the tiles of the roof.

Once you are sure that the tiles have absorbed as much of the sealant as they can, the next step is to paint the tile roof. Applying at least two coats of paint is recommended and where necessary, a third coat might have to be applied as well. The paint must be a good quality paint and the colour of the paint will obviously depend on the person owning the building that the roof is on. When choosing the colour of the paint to paint your tile roof and for that matter any other flat roof, metal roof, warehouse roof or tin roof, your hired painting contractors must remember that darker colours absorb the heat while light colours reflect the heat generated off the roof by the sun. The best and fastest way to paint a tile roof is by airless spray painting it. There is an art to airless spray painting a tile roof or any other type of roof. When airless spray painting a tile roof the most effective way to spray it is to paint about four tiles down from the top and then paint across the roof until you get to the other end.

Once you have reached the other end you then need to continue spray painting by going back to the place you started spray painting from. Then you start spray painting about four tiles down again in than other direction and continue spraying across the roof to the other opposite end. Every time you start another section you must paint up to the bottom edge of the previous tile painted, this will help avoid ugly and noticeable overlap marks. Other than airless spray painting a tile roof you could paint it using a brush. This method is obviously very tiring, laborious and time consuming. The quality of the finished painted tile roof is worth the extra expense when using the airless spray painting technique and is far superior compared to the quality of the final painted roof achieved when using a brush and painting it by hand.

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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