Inner Sunset Roof Coating

Most Inner Sunset flat roofs do not need tearing off — they need cleaning, repairing and sealing. Salt air, marine layer and long damp mornings keep a low-slope roof wet longer, so seams and ponding spots are where the trouble starts.

Serving Inner Sunset and nearby

We coat commercial and residential low-slope roofs throughout Inner Sunset and the surrounding San Francisco County communities, including Sunset District, Cole Valley and Forest Hill.

When we tell you not to coat

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

Silicone or acrylic for a Inner Sunset 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.

Lifespan and recoating

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.

Pricing a Inner Sunset roof 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.

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

Does your Inner Sunset roof need coating?

A coating earns its keep on a roof with these problems:

• Low spots that hold water for days after a storm
• Seams and laps that have opened up and started weeping
• A roof with years left in the deck and insulation underneath
• A building that cooks in summer and runs the air conditioning hard
• Flashing and penetrations that leak while the field of the roof is still solid

Details that decide a Inner Sunset roof

Any rot found under the old layers is swapped before anything new goes down.

• Financing exists if you want it, and nobody pushes it on you.
• Change orders are discussed before anything is done, not billed afterwards.
• The site is cleaned daily, and the last magnet pass happens before the crew leaves.
• Edges are fastened to spec because that is where uplift starts.

Talk to a Inner Sunset roof coating contractor

The estimate is free. Call (818) 277-6626 and we will measure your Inner Sunset roof, check the deck, seams and drains, and tell you plainly whether coating is the right call.

Why Inner Sunset roofs wear the way they do

We quote Inner Sunset roofs off what the roof is actually doing, and nothing dries quickly here, so a small leak stays wet. From the shop it is a 338-mile run northwest to Inner Sunset, so emergencies get a same-day answer.

We work the same streets in Sunset District, Cole Valley and Forest Hill, so crews know the area and its roofs.

• Gutters are pulled and refitted properly instead of being crushed by a ladder.
• Where an HOA sets colour or material rules, we match the approved list before the job is quoted.
• Solar gets detached and reset by a licensed crew, not improvised around.
• Skylights are flashed new rather than reused, because that is where the next leak starts.
• Skylights are re-flashed as part of the job rather than quoted as an extra later.

Summer is for planned work; winter is for emergencies nobody planned. We will tell you if the roof has five years left, because that is also useful to know.

What we check before quoting

We do not use subcontract crews we have never met. The people on your Inner Sunset roof are the people we train, and they carry our workers' compensation.

The questions we hear most in Inner Sunset are about price, timing and whether a repair will hold. We answer all three before you commit, and we put the answers in writing.

Questions Inner Sunset owners ask us

Before we quote we check the deck, the ventilation, the flashings and the drainage. Three of those four are invisible from the ground, and all four decide how long the roof lasts.