Our metal roof coating services in Hastings cover five systems. The roof walk decides which one fits, based on slope, ponding, insulation, and panel condition.
Services
Each of our metal roof coating services in Hastings solves a different roof problem. Start with the card that sounds like your building.
The full restoration for exposed-fastener and standing-seam steel. Rust is primed, stripped screws are replaced with oversized ones, laps and ridge caps get fabric, and elastomeric coats cover the field. Most warehouses, co-op storage buildings, and implement shops start here.
Hastings Commercial Metal Roof Coating
Built for roofs that stay wet. Silicone holds up under ponding water and strong sun on low-slope metal and flat additions. It collects dirt and turns slick when wet, and future recoats must also be silicone, so we weigh that before choosing it.
Hastings Silicone Roof Coating
Water-based coats for sloped steel that drains within a day. A base coat and a contrasting top coat make coverage easy to check. Acrylic costs less per gallon than silicone, but it needs dry, mild days and nights to cure.
Hastings Acrylic Roof Coating
Polyurethane foam sprayed over metal or flat roofs, then covered with a protective coat the same week. Foam adds insulation and can be built thicker at low spots to move water toward drains. Wet insulation underneath comes out first.
Hastings Spray Foam Roofing
For offices, clinics, churches, and retail buildings with asphalt shingles that still lie flat and hold granules. Loose tabs are glued, nails are sealed, and the coating goes on without tear-off. Brittle or curled shingles call for reshingling instead.
Hastings Shingle Roof CoatingComparison
Six roof situations we see on Hastings commercial buildings, and the system each one starts with. The inspection confirms the choice before anything is priced.
Fastener sealing, rust primer, and lap fabric come first, then the elastomeric field coats.
Ponding areas on low-slope metal or flat additions need a coating that tolerates standing water once drains are cleared.
Quick drainage lets a lower-cost water-based system do the job, applied as a base and top coat in dry, mild weather.
Foam adds insulation above the deck and seals seams and screws in the same layer, under a protective coat.
Intact shingles on offices and churches can take a coating after loose tabs are glued and nails are sealed.
When most of the steel has holes or soft spots, new metal is the starting point and coating comes later, if at all.
Replacement First
You do not have to choose. Send the roof size for a ballpark, and the roof walk sorts out the system before any work is priced.
Process
Whatever system the roof ends up with, the work on a Hastings building follows the same order, and each step is checked before the next one starts.
A walk of the full roof and a look inside for stains, wet insulation, and daylight through the panels.
Slope, ponding, foot traffic, and insulation needs point to one of the five systems, or to repair first when the panels are too far gone.
Washing, rust primer, screw replacement, and any panel or insulation repairs come before coating.
Seams, curbs, drains, and ridge caps get fabric set in a base coat of the chosen system.
Field coats go on at the maker's listed thickness and are checked with a gauge.
FAQ
Answers for owners comparing coating systems in Hastings.
The roof itself answers that. Slope and drainage point toward acrylic or silicone, a need for insulation points toward foam, and the panel and screw condition decides how much restoration comes first. The roof walk ends with one recommended system and the reasons for it.
Often, once the leak source is found and repaired. Active leaks usually trace to a lap, a screw row, a curb, or a drain. Those points are fixed and reinforced first, and the coating then covers them with the rest of the roof. Wet insulation found during that work is replaced before coating.
Most do on metal. Rusted steel takes a rust-inhibiting primer, and some old coatings need a bonding or bleed-blocking primer before silicone. Clean, sound acrylic or shingle surfaces can sometimes skip it, which the coating maker's instructions and an adhesion test decide.
Yes, and many do. A steel shop with a flat office addition often gets acrylic on the sloped panels and silicone on the flat section. Each system is applied to its own area and joined with a reinforced transition.
They all plan within about $2.50 to $4.00 per square foot when the roof can be coated, against about $5 to $8 for replacement. Material price, number of coats, and prep move each job within that range, and foam depth drives spray foam pricing.
Prep follows condition. A roof with a few loose screws and light rust moves to coating quickly, while one with stripped screws everywhere, open laps, and wet insulation needs days of work first. The inspection list shows that work line by line.
A yearly walk and a check after hail cover most of it. Drains and gutters are cleared, worn spots are cleaned and touched up, and the surface is recoated with a compatible coating when the film thins.
Acrylic recoats with acrylic or silicone, which gives the most choice later. Silicone recoats only with silicone. Foam needs its protective coat renewed before the foam itself shows through.
Get a ballpark from your roof size, or call and we will set up a roof walk.