ROOF COATINGSilicone & Acrylic

Most North Hills flat roofs do not need tearing off — they need cleaning, repairing and sealing. Valley heat bakes a low-slope roof all summer, chalking the surface and opening seams, and the building underneath pays for it in cooling.

The coating process, step by step

• Inspect and measure, including core tests where we need to know what is under the membrane
• Clean the roof — power wash, remove dirt, chalk and loose coating
• Repair: cracks, open seams, failed flashing, blisters and bad penetrations
• Prime where the substrate calls for it
• Apply the coating in multiple passes to the specified thickness, seams and details first
• Final walk for even coverage and thickness, then clean up the site

Two coating systems, one right answer

• Silicone: the pick for roofs that pond. It handles standing water, resists UV without turning brittle, and lasts longest of the two.
• Acrylic: the pick for roofs that drain clean. Lower cost per square, excellent reflectivity, and easy to recoat later.
• Both go down seamless, so there are no laps or fasteners for water to work into.
• Both drop the roof surface temperature sharply, which shows up on the cooling bill of a conditioned building.

Serving North Hills and nearby

We coat commercial and residential low-slope roofs throughout North Hills and the surrounding Los Angeles County communities, including Sepulveda, Mission Hills and Panorama City.

How long a North Hills roof coating lasts

A silicone system at the right thickness over a properly prepped roof gives you ten years and up, and acrylic is close behind on a roof that drains well. Both systems are renewable: when the time comes you wash the roof and add another coat instead of starting over, which is why building owners keep coming back to them.

When coating makes sense in North Hills

Good candidates for coating tend to have:

• Seams and laps that have opened up and started weeping
• Chalky, sun-baked membrane that has lost its surface but not its body
• A roof with years left in the deck and insulation underneath
• Low spots that hold water for days after a storm
• A building that cooks in summer and runs the air conditioning hard

The cost side of coating

Because the work is additive, most buildings stay open and in use while we are on the roof.

A coating runs well under the cost of a tear-off and replacement, and there is no dumpster, no demolition and no days of noise over the tenants' heads.

North Hills, up close

Nobody roofs North Hills the way they roof a tract in the desert, and summer heat bakes the field of the roof while the nights pull it back cold. We cover North Hills from about 19 miles northwest, close enough for emergency calls.

The roofs in Sepulveda, Mission Hills and Panorama City are built much the same way, and they fail the same way.

• Solar panels get detached and reset on a schedule that matches the roofing crew.
• Solar gets detached and reset by a licensed crew, not improvised around.
• Gutters are pulled and refitted properly instead of being crushed by a ladder.
• Satellite dishes and A/C line sets are re-flashed, not just set back down.
• Chimney and wall flashings are replaced, not painted over with sealant.

Leaks found in summer cost a fraction of the same leak found in February. Call and we will look at the North Hills roof, show you photos, and put the price in writing.

When coating is the wrong call

A coating needs a dry, sound roof underneath. When a North Hills roof does not have that, the honest answer is a replacement, and we will quote it that way.

What you can expect from us

Intake and exhaust are balanced on the same visit - a sealed attic cooks a new roof early.

• Payment is tied to progress, not demanded up front.
• Keep the paperwork: it transfers if you sell the house.
• One person runs your job and answers the phone the whole way through.
• An inspection here means walking the roof, not pointing a camera at it from the driveway.

Get a North Hills roof coating estimate

The estimate is free. Call (818) 275-0921 and we will measure your North Hills roof, check the deck, seams and drains, and tell you plainly whether coating is the right call.