Roofmaxx says iiuc that it comes with a 5-year guarantee, but at the same time they say you can't wait until the roof already shows damage to apply the product. Since you don't know when it will show damage, you have to use the product in advance, maybe 5, 10, 15 years in advance. So if you're doing this 5 years or more before it would show damage, OF COURSE it won't show any damage during the warranty period. So in that case it's a meaningless warranty and calling it a warranty strikes me as chicanery, enough to make me not trust them.
If OTOH, you wait until damage is showing (or almost until then?) when damage shows up, will they not say you're not covered by the warranty because you waited too long? (They use both word, guarantee and warranty on their home page,
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hubops
Wow - 5 year guarantee on a roofing product ! ... it _must_ be good ! John T.
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Retirednoguilt
Looking on the web, it seems to have a controversial reputation. Probably good for someone who wants to sell their home in the very near future but has a less than perfect roof,
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micky
Thanks for checking.
Normally I wouldn't ge so interested in something like this, but when I had a new roof put on, I thoughtlessly went with the would-it-have-been a 25 year roof that the roofer was suggesting. I have what I bought written down, but where? Later I realized if I stayed here a long time, I would be needing a new roof just a couple years before I left, and I should have paid extra for the better roof.
Not sure if the guy who lives next to me would have wanted to do that and the townhouses are adjacent and I suppose if they had to change roofing material on each row they wouldn't have given the whole discount we got doing 2 at once, but I at least should have inquired.
So now, sure enough, I don't need a roof yet, but I will within another
10 years, not long before I'm moving out anyhow. This seemed like a way to undo the mistake I made.
BTW, since our roofs match, when google outlines homes in map view, it used to show us as one big house. I see it's stopped that, but now has stranger problems. My building and most of them are 8 houses attached, every two houses the elevation changes a little and the distance from the sidewalk changes back and forth a little, but somehow map view now shows only 7 houses and has 3 extra places where the lawn goes from front to back between houses, even though it doesn't. (It only does that at the ends.) There are 11 other buildings here and 9 don't show this problem but two others do. Of course I know what the buildings here look like but I'd better not put too much reliance on map view's software in other parts of the US/world.
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badgolferman
Chances are a hail storm will force you to get a roof sooner or the home inspector of the buyer will.
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Cindy Hamilton
Depends where you live. I've been living here for 25 years and we've never had a hailstorm that so much as cracked the corrugated fiberglass over the patio.
Micky lives in Baltimore. Also not a big town for hailstorms.
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