This Is What Every Homeowner Should Know About Roof Maxx
The roof on your Woodbine, New Jersey home is subjected to non-stop stress. It’s constantly exposed to the elements and it’s always working to keep outside moisture from getting in. Whether it’s absorbing solar heat, blocking frozen precipitation, or standing up to the harmful effects of the sun’s UV rays, this multi-layer system is continuously sustaining wear. Fortunately, Roof Maxx provides a simple solution for extending the lifespan of your roof, adding durability to your shingles, and giving you greater peace of mind. Following is everything you need to know about Roof Maxx, including the many benefits it provides.
What Is Roof Maxx?
Roof Maxx is a spray-on coating that’s designed specifically for the treatment of fiberglass-asphalt shingles. Often referred to as a shingle rejuvenator, Roof Maxx can additionally serve as a highly effective preventative treatment. Whether your roof has reached its mid-life or is nearing the end of its lifespan, Roof Maxx can save you both time and money.
This topical roof treatment is derived from soybean oil or soy methyl ether. The soy-fusion technology behind the Roof Maxx solution allows it to penetrate dry, brittle, and highly aged roof shingles. This enhances the flexibility and resilience of fiberglass asphalt. It also provides the additional benefit of lasting waterproofing. Best of all, given that it’s plant-based, Roof Maxx is both safe for use in residential applications and non-harmful to the natural environment. In fact, Roof Maxx is listed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “Safer Chemical Ingredients List”. It’s also Certified by the USDA as a “Bio-Preferred Product”.
How and Why Roof Maxx Works
To understand how and why Roof Maxx works, it’s important to know how fiberglass-asphalt shingles age and degrade over time. What you may not realize about your roof’s shingles is that they naturally contain oil. The asphalt component in your shingles is a petroleum-derived product. It’s inherently oily composition makes it the most important waterproofing element in your roofing.
Unfortunately, constant exposure to heat, the sun’s UV rays, and the natural expansion and contraction that occurs due to temperature changes eventually dry the oil in your shingles out. Although missing granules is a great visual cue that your shingles are nearing the end of their lifespan, the real clue is when they become dry and cracked. Dry shingles are brittle. They’re also incapable of movement without breaking. Thus, if your shingles dry out completely this summer, they’ll likely split or crack when the outside temperatures plummet later on.
Roof Maxx restores the oil that shingles gradually lose over time. When old shingles are lubricated by Roof Maxx, their pliability is restored. They can gain experience temperature-related expansion and contraction without sustaining accelerated wear. They can also stand up to other forms of movement. The oily composition of Roof Maxx also makes it a reliable barrier against UV damage, heat damage, and damage caused by many other forms of exposure.
Roof Maxx Provides Protection for Your Entire Home
Did you know that a failing roof can eventually lead to a failing foundation? Your roof is easily the most important structure on your house. When it’s both well-designed and well-maintained, your roof plays a vital role in routing water away from exterior property features such as your foundation and your siding. Treating aging and failing shingles with Roof Maxx ultimately protects these things.
It can also help you avoid issues with your ceilings, drywall, and flooring. Even your home’s framing can benefit from an application of Roof Maxx. After all, when roof leaks are both serious and unchecked, they’ll eventually have an impact on how your doors and windows fit their frames. When you use Roof Maxx, you aren’t just taking good care of your roof. You’re also taking a proactive step towards preserving every other aspect of your home.
Other Benefits Provided by Roof Max
Even if your roof is in fairly good condition, having Roof Maxx applied can still prove advantageous. Restoring lost moisture early in a shingle’s lifespan will make it last longer. One of the many benefits of this treatment is better granule adhesion. The dark-colored granules on your roof’s shingles will stay on longer, and if you’re already seeing shingle granules in your gutters or at the base of your downspouts, this distressing development will come to a swift end.
Roof Maxx can also make certain elements of your roofing less permeable. This includes spaces where severe roof damage is most likely to occur such as the:
- Roof hips
- Roof valleys
- Ridge shingles
- Field shingles
A soy-based coating in these areas will make water roll right off. In this way, Roof Maxx can also play a hand in efficiently routing precipitation toward your gutters.
For many homeowners, Roof Maxx provides the ability to postpone the inevitable. Without a doubt, your roof will eventually need to be replaced. However, if your shingles are curling, cracking, or losing their granules right now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to break the bank today. If the conditions are right for a Roof Maxx application, you may be able to stave off the costs of roof replacement for several years.
How Roof Maxx Is Applied
The application process for Roof Maxx is incredibly simple. This is especially true when you compare it to the process of tearing down a roof with old, worn-out shingles and replacing it, or even to the less-than-ideal method of applying new shingles over damaged ones. To start, we’ll use a pressure washer to clean your roof. We’ll use the appropriate washer setting for stripping away layers of dirt and grime without causing any structural harm. Having a clean, dry roof is essential for ensuring that Roof Maxx properly bonds with each shingle.
Roof Maxx is then applied in a light, even layer across the entire roof surface. Within a matter of days, Roof Maxx will have deeply penetrated your shingles to restore moisture, flexibility, and durability. If your shingles are in a truly sad state before treatment, you’ll be able to see the difference almost immediately.
Is Roof Maxx Flammable?
For obvious reasons, the idea of coating and even saturating your home’s roof in oil can be unnerving. When it comes to protecting your home investment, dousing it in oil seems counterproductive. However, Roof Maxx won’t have any impact on your roof’s flammability. On their own, fiberglass-asphalt shingles have a Class A rating for flammability. Roof Maxx will neither raise nor lower this. This soybean-based solution is entirely neutral to flames.
Is Roof Max Right for Your Home?
Although Roof Maxx is an excellent preventative application for extending the lifespan of healthy and fully intact roofs, it’s designed to treat roofs that are essentially limping along. It’s a great treatment for prudent homeowners who want to be proactive about protecting their roofs right now, but it’s also great for people who’ve been spying on shingle granules in their gutters for quite some time.
However, Roof Maxx is a topical treatment. It cannot repair or improve structural damage that affects your roof many layers deep. If your roof is experiencing severe separation at its valleys, or if the underlying substrate is bowing, curling, or soft, Roof Maxx is probably not the best solution for you. The only way to know for sure is to schedule a consultation appointment.
Since 1975, Jim Rhubart Roofing has been proudly serving residents of Woodbine, New Jersey and the surrounding areas. We do roofing right. As a third-generation family-owned and family-operated roofing company, we’re committed to using trusted roofing materials and roof installation techniques. We offer roof replacement and repair services. We also provide Roof Maxx. Get in touch with us today!
