ROOF COATINGSilicone & Acrylic

Most Northridge 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.

When we tell you not to coat

If we find saturated insulation or a failing deck on your Northridge roof, we say so. Coating over a wet roof traps the water and costs you twice.

Serving Northridge and nearby

We coat commercial and residential low-slope roofs throughout Northridge and the surrounding Los Angeles County communities, including Reseda, Winnetka and North Hills.

What the street looks like in Northridge

Roofs in Northridge do not wear out the way a brochure says they do, and attic heat pushes up through the deck and ages shingles from below. 21 miles northwest means a crew, a ladder and a tarp can be there this afternoon.

Neighbouring work in Reseda, Winnetka and North Hills means materials are already staged nearby.

• Chimney and wall flashings are replaced, not painted over with sealant.
• We photograph every penetration before and after, so the file shows the work.
• Skylights are flashed new rather than reused, because that is where the next leak starts.
• Material is delivered the morning of the job, not left on the driveway for a week.
• We work around tenants and business hours where the building is occupied.

Scheduling before the rains means the whole job happens on dry decking. If a repair solves it, we quote the repair instead of selling a replacement.

The cost side of coating

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.

Coating is priced by the square foot once we know the condition and how much prep the roof needs, and the number comes to you in writing before anything starts.

Does your Northridge roof need coating?

Good candidates for coating tend to have:

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

Choosing the system for your Northridge roof

• 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.

What the work looks like

• 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

What you get out of it

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.

Get a Northridge roof coating estimate

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

Details that decide a Northridge roof

We do not ask for large deposits before material is delivered.

• Ridge venting goes in where the roof line allows it, with proper intake at the eaves.
• Deck repairs are priced per sheet so there is no surprise number halfway through.
• Rake and eave metal is new on every job; reusing bent metal is false economy.
• Most homes take two to four days once material lands.