Location: Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng
Service: Tile Roof Prep, Ridge Waterproofing & Painting

A tile roof’s colour coat is its first line of defence, and once that layer gives out, the tiles themselves start absorbing water instead of shedding it. That was the situation on this tiled roof, where years of sun exposure had stripped the original blue-green finish back to a chalky, faded shell and cracked open several sections of the ridge line. The owner brought in a SealPro-approved applicator to reseal the ridges, recoat the full tiled roof, and replace the ageing barge board edging while they were at it.

The problem

The protective top coat on the tiles had failed almost everywhere, leaving patches of bare, porous concrete exposed to the weather. Along the ridge, the cement fill between capping tiles had cracked and, in several spots, crumbled away completely, opening gaps at the highest point of the roof where wind-driven rain does the most damage. The existing colour had also faded and patched unevenly across the roof planes, so the home was losing both protection and kerb appeal at the same time. The over-tile barge boards running along the roof edge had weathered along with everything else and needed replacing rather than repainting.

The solution

As an approved SealPro applicator, the team worked through a full prep-and-recoat sequence rather than painting over the existing damage:

1. Ridge repair first. The loose, cracked cement fill along every ridge run was raked out back to sound material, the substrate was prepped and primed, and the joints were rebuilt and waterproofed with a stretch-seal system — locking down the most vulnerable line on the roof before any paint went on.
2. Full roof clean and prep. The entire tiled roof, main house and outbuilding sections alike, was high-pressure washed to strip years of chalking, algae and loose coating back to a stable surface that new paint could actually bond to.
3. Two-coat repaint. With the roof clean, dry and sound, the team applied SealPro’s M22 Ultimo Roof Paint in Slate in two full coats, working with the tile profile and roof pitch to build an even, durable film from ridge to eaves.
4. Barge board flashing. The old over-tile barge boards were stripped off and replaced with new flashings along the roof edge, finished to match the new roof colour and closing off the last exposed edge on the job.

The result

The roof went from a patchy, faded blue-green to a clean, uniform slate grey that reads sharp against surrounding red-tile roofs. The ridges are sealed and tidy, the new edge flashings finish the roofline properly, and the tiles are shedding water again instead of soaking it up. It’s the kind of job that does not just look better from the driveway — it takes a roof that was actively letting water in at the ridges and puts a proper stop to it.

SealAll Roof Contractors is an approved SealPro applicator serving Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and the greater Vaal region.

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