Heavily adertised in my area. It is supposed to extend the life of your roof. Generally speaking hurricanes limit the life of your roof.

What exactly is it and what does it cost?
You can also go with aluminum shingles; they are rated for 165 mph winds and a life of 50 years.

Yeah, some more info would be nice.

Ads I've seen make it look like something they spray onto your existing shingles.

https://myroofsavers.com/

Weird Trick??

Sounds like snake oil. (Quite literally.) It's an oil-based product that they coat your roof with, supposedly extending the life of worn-out shingles by another 10 years.

They claim their system has been around for a decades, but if it was that great, it would be more well known and widely adopted.

Lemme guess... Theirs ads are something along the lines of: "One weird trick that the Roofing Industry doesn't want you to know about!"

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Originally posted by RogueJSK: Lemme guess...

LOL

Advertised here a lot too...about as much as the Jardiance commercial which grates on my soul.

I'm not in building or the trades, but if it has any merit, it's probably a polymer, and as far as polymers go, they all degrade, and for roofs in particular, which is probably the harshest environment possible or any outdoor surface known to mankind, my guess would be a temporary band-aid at best, because if you need a new roof there is no substitute for a new one. I hope that with the new POTUS and his great choices to head up his stuff, things will get better so that we can all replace our old roofs.

If you do research on it, don't believe whatever the seller says about it, find out what professional builders say about it. Maybe if it buys you an extra summer or winter it may be worth it, unless the cost of the treatment takes dollars away from your new roof fund for lack of a better term.

I know they are expensive. I bought my current house based on a home inspection report I paid for myself, whereby the inspector said my roof was great, but it turned out he was a crappy "inspector" because the roof was old as dirt and gave up the ghost shortly after I moved in, and it took me more time than I anticipated to save up for a replacement. What a pita.

I had it done here in ne Florida, won’t do it again. It’s supposed to get mold off and make the shingles pliable again. It did get rid of the mold stains though it killed the bushes around the house and the constant grains being washed away is a pain in the a$$ sweeping up. This was pushed by the HOA for homeowners who showed mold stains on the roof.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Sounds like snake oil. (Quite literally.) It's an oil-based product that they coat your roof with, supposedly extending the life of worn-out shingles by another 10 years.

They claim their system has been around for a decades, but if it was that great, it would be more well known and widely adopted.

Lemme guess... Theirs ads are something along the lines of: "One weird trick that the Roofing Industry doesn't want you to know about!"

What the roofing industry doesn't want you to know!

I didn't see the most obvious negative. If you are applying for Home Owners Insurance, the age of your roof is not impacted by this treatment. Try telling your insurance underwriter that your 20 year old roof is good as new after this treatment. Most of these bastards won't insure a home if the roof is more than passed it's advertised half life.

The first thing you should do is ask for an SDS and TDS for the product they are using; it is probably a clear elastomeric of some sort, which would be fine for metal but not anything else.

Elastomerics have little to no "permeability" so applying this to a surface can limit a surface's ability to transfer moisture (breathe), for steel, this isn't an issue, but for wood, and probably roofs, where some moisture transfer is expected (especially on homes without spray foam) this will cause the moisture to collect on the back side of the coating film and literally, will push the coating away from the surface (peel).

Roof savers is the name.

Hard no for me:

- Insurance companies lay out a LOT of $ for roofs... If it was such a bargain, you think they would be pushing it

- Years ago, I saw a thing [60 minutes I think?] Basically, let call them modern day gypsies from out of state rolled into the area with a bunch of trucks and equipment offering this service [at a highly discounted rate of course]

Turns out, they had gotten auto shops to pay them a lower rate than usual to recover their used motor oil. I guess they mixed it with a little thinner and something to make it smell better... This is what they were spraying on the roofs... Had a nice darker wet look at first... First rain storm they had dark oil stains running down the houses and the gypsies were of course nowhere to be found.

I wouldn't bother with it, if you need a new roof you need a new roof so might as well bite the bullet and get a new roof instead of applying a band aid.

I don't need a new roof at this time. I figured it was a scam of sorts. The insurance companies are now prorating due to age. After Katrina the adjuster got out of his truck and said "You are getting a new roof." After Hurricane Zeta he walked the roof and asked how old it was. Only a few shingles lifted. Even though it was a Category Three it went through so fast that damage was limited.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Lemme guess... Theirs ads are something along the lines of: "One weird trick that the Roofing Industry doesn't want you to know about!"

What the roofing industry doesn't want you to know!

For what it’s worth, the Insurance industry does NOT recognize it nor approve its use. Had a long discussion with my agent concerning it.

The tech this uses essentially makes brittle shingles less brittle by replacing “asphaltenes”. There is something similar that can and as been used on asphalt pavement, but it has to be used early in the life of the asphalt to extend its life…pushing the maintenance cycle to the right.