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Metal Roof
Products:
Butyl
Rubber Seam Sealants
Metal Roof
Caulking & Sealants
Metal Roof Clips:
(please call with your requirements).
Metal Roof
Coatings
(elastomeric roof coatings)
Metal Roof
Lap &
Seam Adhesives
Metal
Roof Seam Repair Tapes
Metal Roof Steel: We can ship you
truck-load and LTL of all types of roofing metals: Please call for
current pricing:
Coiled
Metal (various widths of coiled metal stock)
Sheet
Metal (4'x8', 4'x10', etc)
Kynar Finished
Roof Metal
Metal
Tile Roof
Standing Seam Metal Roof
- prefabricated in many patterns !
Metal Roof
Edge & Trim Metal
Metal Roof
Equipment Supports
Metal Roof
Fasteners, Screws & Metal Roof Fasteners:
Lap Seam Screws, Lap Seam Strip-Out Repair Screws
Metal
Roof Clip Fasteners: TEK - Phillip Pancake Head TEKs
Metal-To-Metal Painted-Top Cup-Head TEKS w/Sealing Washer
(for metal lap seams & metal to
metal connections)
Metal-to-Metal HWH Self Drilling TEKs w/Sealing Washer
(metal-metal includes stainless steel TEKs)
Metal-to-Wood
Roof Screw with Sealing Washer: Woodgrip Screws
Rivets
-Blind Head
& Peel Rivets, aluminum, copper, stainless and steel.
Roof Insulation Fasteners & Roof Insulation Screws:
Roof-Deck Screws, Stress Plates
Stainless
Steel Items
HWH SMS with Sealing
Washer, Stainless Steel
Metal Roof
Flashing Boots & Retrofit
Flashing Boots (pipe seals)
Metal Roof Repair Products
Metal Roof
Skylights & Hatch
Metal Roof
Snow Guards,
Ice Guards (metal roof snow & ice supports)
Metal Roof
Underlayment & Moisture Barrier
Metal Roof Vents:
All Roof Vents
Aura Shingle Roof Vent Kits (2" collar)
Aura Tile & Foam Roof Vent Kits (6" collar)
Solar Vents
Metal Roofing Equipment:
Metal
Circular Saws
Metal
Cutting Circular Saw Blades
Rivet Tools
Screwdrivers & Tek Drivers
Metal Roof Restoration Guide
Metal Roof Repair Q&A:
Q:
We have a commercial building with metal roof and as soon as we
fix the leak areas new leaks develop. They are in different areas.
What can I do to seal the area and what materials should you use.
A.
This is a challenging problem.
In a
many cases, butyl sealant was originally used to seal seams. It may
have reached the point of drying out, and as the material continues
to dry out, more leaks develop.
The
screws SHOULD have a rubber sealing washer on them. If not replace
with roof screws with
sealing washers. Depending on the age, the sealing washer rubber
could be old and starting to fail -- and again new leaks continue to
develop over time.
Depending on your roof material, different sealants can be used to
caulk the seams. Here is one many roofers use:
Duralink Metal Roof
Sealant
Many
prefer seam sealant or seam tape for the seams, such as Eternabond
Webseal or Roofseal. This material is
VERY good but more expensive. Its also great for quick fixes to
problem areas:
Eternabond RoofSeal Tape
Application instructions:
Metal
Roof & WebSeal, and
Metal Roof
Installation Tips
For
any penetrations, we suggest re-flashing them with Master Flash
Boots:
Master Flash Pipe
Flashings
Formflex 6000 is very popular for recoating the metal roof once
major areas are treated. It will seal the screws that just have
minor leaks, and very small leaks in other areas. Then protect the
entire roof.
Formflex 6000 Roof Sealant
Often
the turbine vents are shot and also leak water. Turbine type vents
leak anyway with certain storm conditions. For improving the venting
and putting in permanent water-tight venting, try these:
Aura Ventilators
Additional Information & Resources:
Glossary of Terms
(link to RoofHelp.com)
Good Roof References & Repair Articles
How To Do Repairs
(link to Roofhelp.com)
Metal Roof Colors (coming soon, call & we can mail you a color
brochure).
Metal Roof Cost Calculator
Metal Roof Safety Products
Roof Coating & Roof Construction Articles
Searchable Roof Repair
Database
Metal Roof Repair with Eternabond Tape:
Metal Roof Repair And Maintenance--The Easy Way
(courtesy Eternabond)
The
word metal is an extremely general one. When talking about metal
roofs, there are a variety of options to choose from, such as steel,
zinc alloys, aluminum and copper. There are coated metal roofs,
which are the colored ones you see. Additionally, metal roofs are
typically installed in one of two ways: as shingles or large
individual sheets. All metal roofs have seams where the pieces of
metal fit together. It is at these seams, and at penetrations
through the metal for vents, skylights, etc, and where the roofs
join a new plane like at the ridge, in the valleys, and along the
fascias that metal roofs start running into problems. Furthermore
metal roofs can rust through. In all cases, leaks are most prevalent
in older metal roofs, and roofs that were installed incorrectly.
Because leaks do occur, metal roofs require repair, restoration and
maintenance.
Metal roofs use sealants in the
installation process. The sealants that have been available in the
past do not last, getting hard, shrinking, loosing their elasticity
and dis-bonding over time. Today, however, there is an alternative to
the old butyls, asphalt and caulking sealants--it is a
MicroSealant called EternaBond. A MicroSealant is a very unique
chemistry formulated to be virtually invisible to the ravages of
nature. Eternabond was designed as the ultimate metal roof sealing
solution. Eternabond is a MicroSealant in an easy to use tape form,
and it is used in similar fashion--but provides a permanent fix to any
leak, regardless of the type of metal roof on which it is used.
EternaBond is quickly becoming the sealant of choice of professional
roofing technicians, and because recreational vehicle roofs are so
difficult to keep tight, EternaBond is now being used by over 25 RV
manufacturers in the manufacturing process.
Constructed with the most advanced
and aggressive MicroSealant adhesive available on the market today,
EternaBond, which has a built-in primer, requires minimal preparation
for it to be effectively used by even the most inexperienced novice.
Easy and fast to use, it is designed to withstand extreme hot and cold
temperatures and can expand upwards of 700 percent of its original
size. Combined with its UV stable backing, an EternaBond repair or
restoration is a permanent repair.
Other popular products and pages:
Backer
Rod,
ChemCurbs,
Chinking,
Concrete Stain
& Sealer,
Diamond Saw Blades,
Eternabond
Repair Tape,
Expansion Joints,
Fall
Protection Kits,
Foam Roofing,
Gas
& Safety Cans,
Hidden Deck Fasteners,
Hot Air Welders,
Electric, Hot Air Welders,
Propane,
Hot Dipped Roofing Nails,
Houseboat Roof / Deck Repair, log home
products, Metal
Roofing,
Metal Roof Repair Items,
Miami-Dade Nails, Narrow
Crown Stainless Steel Staples,
NP1 Sealants,
Parking Garage Repair,
Pipe Flashings,
Pipe Support Systems,
Polyurethane Foam,
Propane
Parts,
Restaurant
Exhausters, Retrofit
Pipe Flashings,
Roof
Anchors,
Roof
Jack,
Roof Leak Repair, Roof Paints and Coatings, Roof Repair Materials,
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Roof Supplies,
Roof Screws,
Roofing Fasteners,
Roofing Repair,
Roofing Supplies,
RV & Trailer
Roof Repair,
Safety Rail Systems, Sealants,
Sealing Washers,
Snow Guards,
Solar Fans,
Solar Roof Fans,
Sonolastic Clear 25, Stainless
Nails/Fasteners,
Tile Bond,
Vents,
Roof Vents
Popular suppliers
Active Ventilation,
AOSafety,
ASI Products,
Aztec
Washer,
BASF,
Chem
Link,
Chemrex,
Cleasby,
Compass
International,
Degussa,
Dow Chemical,
Eagle,
ERB
Safety, Falltech
Safety Products,
Fry Reglet,
Green Bull,
Guardian Fall Protection,
Hatch Rail,
Hitachi,
IFG Fasteners,
Igloo Water Coolers®,
Leister,
Makita,
Master
Flash Boots,
Maze Nails,
Mitsubishi, Milwaukee Tools,
Miro Industries,
Polycoat,
Polyguard,
Portals Plus,
Powers Fasteners,
ProTech,
RHH Foam,
Senco,
SFS Intec,
Sievert,
Sonneborn,
S&P,
Spotnails,
Steelhead,
Swan
Secure,
Uniroof,
United Coatings,
Winco
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