Roof Coating Pasadena

A cool roof coating turns a hot, chalked Pasadena roof into a sealed, reflective surface. Hillside exposure means long afternoon sun and the first of the Santa Ana winds, which is hard on a flat roof's surface and its flashings.

Serving Pasadena and nearby

We coat commercial and residential low-slope roofs throughout Pasadena and the surrounding Los Angeles County communities, including South Pasadena, San Marino and Alhambra.

Choosing the system for your Pasadena 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.

How we coat a roof in Pasadena

• 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 we look for on a Pasadena roof

Good candidates for coating tend to have:

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

What changes on a Pasadena roof

Across Los Angeles County, Pasadena has its own wear pattern, because the slopes take the wind first and hold the afternoon sun longest. We are roughly 9 miles northeast of Pasadena, close enough for a same-day look at a leak.

We know South Pasadena, San Marino and Alhambra as well as we know Pasadena.

• Magnet sweeps run morning and evening, which matters on a street with kids and bare feet.
• Dry-in happens the same day the old roof comes off; nothing sits open overnight.
• We work around tenants and business hours where the building is occupied.
• Permits and inspections run through the local building department, and we pull them rather than leaving it to you.
• We protect landscaping and the pool before a single bundle comes off the truck.

The first big storm books out the whole trade, so earlier is cheaper. If a repair solves it, we quote the repair instead of selling a replacement.

How long a Pasadena 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.

Pricing a Pasadena 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.

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

When coating is the wrong call

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

Questions Pasadena owners ask us

One person runs your job and answers the phone the whole way through.

• Edges are fastened to spec because that is where uplift starts.
• Warranty paperwork is registered for you, not left in a folder for you to chase.
• Change orders are written and signed, never verbal.
• Ice-and-water goes in at the valleys and penetrations even though it rarely freezes here.

Ready to look at your roof

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

What we check before quoting

When the crew leaves, the debris leaves with them: magnet passes morning and evening, gutters cleared, driveway swept. You get photos of the finished work and the warranty paperwork registered in your name.

Dry-season work is cheaper and safer, because the whole job happens on dry decking. Once the first storm is on the ten-day forecast the calendar in Pasadena tightens fast, and emergency work costs more than planned work.

Questions Pasadena 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.