How to Protect Yourself from the Biggest Myth Used to Sell Roof Restorations by Unscrupulous Roofing Companies

In this series of articles, we’ll reveal the biggest myth about how roofs deteriorate and what maintenance your roof really needs as it gets older. We’ll reveal many of the tricks and sales techniques used to sell over-priced roof restorations to honest, hard working people who don’t need and can’t afford such expensive “repairs”. You’ll learn how much a roof restoration should cost (based on the median price across the industry), and finally, you’ll get some tips so you can avoid being taken advantage of.

Home owners all over Australia are being sucked in by exaggerations of minor problems, sales tricks, or outright lies. You see, roof restoration is one of those industries that, unfortunately, attracts rogues and “fly by nighters”. This is because most people are unable to get on their roof to inspect it’s condition, so the rogues pray on trusting people by inventing problems that don’t exist.

The Biggest Myth Used To Sell Roof Restorations

A tiled roof gets porous when the coating wears off.

This is more of an exaggeration than an outright lie. You see, a new tiled roof has a protective glaze on its surface. This glaze wears off after about 8 – 12 years, exposing the oxide coating underneath. This coating gradually wears away (U.V rays break it down, and small amounts of the oxides wash off with each rain), so some bare concrete will start to appear at around the 20 – 25 year mark. Some roof restoration salesmen will tell you that this means your roof is porous, and that in enough rain, water will soak all the way through your tiles, causing leaks.

While, yes, concrete is porous, the concrete used for roof tiles is so dense that water will never soak all the way through the tiles.

There are benefits to re-coating your roof tiles, and these are explained here but preventing leaks is not one of the benefits.

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