Wax a metal roof?

[Ray Manning]

Is there anything you can put on a metal roof to keep debris from collecting
on it? I was thinking pressure wash and apply some sort of wax or something
to make the surface slick and allow the fir needles and junk to slide
better.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Ray

[Lifendixie]

I've been checking everyday for a reply to this post. I'm also interested.
Anyone have ideas?
Fran

[R&SB]

I've never heard of doing that.
My barn roof needs painting. That's going to be a spring project since we
had no Indian Summer. If it was waxed, it would be impossible to paint.

Sue

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[BD]

You could always get up there with some really fine sand-paper after
painting it, tho.. ;)
Personally, I just get out there with a shop-broom attached to a really long
piece of pvc...

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[R&SB]

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> You could always get up there with some really fine sand-paper after
> painting it, tho.. ;)
> Personally, I just get out there with a shop-broom attached to a really
long
> piece of pvc...
>

Sounds like a good suggestion! Thanks!

Sue

[Lifendixie]

>Personally, I just get out there with a shop-broom attached to a really long
>piece of pvc...

Hey, that'd work. Thans for the tip.
Fran

[dave...@spamcop.net]

Someone who looks an awful lot like Janet Baraclough <janet.a...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
> The message <20021129210913...@mb-cs.aol.com>
> from lifen...@aol.com (Lifendixie) contains these words:

>> I've been checking everyday for a reply to this post. I'm also interested.
>> Anyone have ideas?

> I should imagine that wax would either cook off in summer sun,(tin
> roofs get hot) or wash/wear off in heavy winter rain/hail (especially if
> your area has acid rainfall).

Maybe use an automotive wax, in a pressure washer? They're made to
be sprayed on to painted metal things (hmm...). Might have to
rig up a long nozzle for the pressur washer (someone else mentioned
a long PVC pipe).

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I'd be concerned about what happens
when you want to repaint the roof. If you plan to keep the roof intact
and never paint it, go for the wax - if you plan to repaint it some
day, I'd say just wash the roof off from time to time to get the dirt off
of it (dirt collects moisture, which makes rust), and keep the surface
unwaxed so the next layer of paint will stick.

On a related note, we had a huge hailstorm just after we did the roof on
our barn - the roof looks like a golfball. Ah well. The hailstones
were so large, and coming down so fast, that where they hit the wood on the
north side of the barn, they removed chunks of wood. I may be repainting
that barn roof after all ;)

Dave Hinz

> When our old corrugated iron single skin kitchen roof began to rust (age
> 27, very wet climate) we considered painting it, but moving around on it
> would probably have done more damage to the weak spots than good. Modern
> metal roofs are vastly superior to the old ones (stronger profile,
> double skin, insulated, strong PVC coated) and cheap and easy to install
> so we just replaced it before it started leaking.
>
> Janet.

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[royalc...@gmail.com]

I'm tempted to try this on our semicircular hangar roof in an attempt to make snow slough off of it as it falls, instead of in huge icy sheets.

I'm going to spray it with armor-all wash and wax, and let you guys know how it went in the spring.

[ltspa...@gmail.com]

How did it go?