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Roof Painting Costs in South Australia

Roof coating across South Australia generally costs $500 to $1,500 for a clean alone, $3,500 to $9,000 for a full concrete tile restoration including cleaning, repointing and coating, and $2,500 to $7,000 to repaint a metal roof. Measured against area, coating a sound roof runs $25 to $55 per square metre, with ridge repointing at $25 to $60 per lineal metre and broken tile replacement at $10 to $40 each. Whether your roof should be coated at all is the question worth settling before any of those figures matter. For several common roof types the answer is no.

Before any of that matters, there is a question worth answering honestly. Should your roof be painted at all? Several common South Australian roof types should not be, and one of them is extremely common in Adelaide's established suburbs. Terracotta tiles have their colour fired into the clay and gain nothing from a coating. Slate is a heritage material that is damaged by one. Asbestos cement roofing must never be pressure cleaned, which rules out the standard preparation method.

Concrete tile roofs and metal roofs are the legitimate candidates, and between them they cover most of the state's housing. The second thing to understand is that most of what gets sold as roof painting in South Australia is actually roof restoration, which is a bundle including cleaning, rebedding and repointing the ridge capping, replacing broken tiles and then coating. The repair components are frequently worth more than the paint, and on a tired roof they are the part that actually extends its life. Knowing which of them are in your quote is the single most useful comparison you can make. This is also the trade where unsolicited door knocking is most common in Adelaide. The approach is familiar: someone at the door saying they noticed a problem with your roof from the street, an offer available today, and a request for a deposit.

This page covers when coating is wrong, roof materials, restoration versus painting, ridge capping, metal roofs, asbestos cement, rainwater tanks, solar panels, heat reflective coatings, safety and scams. Wall painting is covered in the SA exterior painting guide, and general background in the SA painters guide. Read the first section before pricing anything, since it may save you the entire cost. Ask for that to appear on the quote.

When Coating Is the Wrong Answer

A coating is a finish, not a repair. It changes how a roof looks and adds a protective layer to a porous surface, and it does nothing structural. Coating is the wrong answer where the roof is failing rather than tired. A concrete tile roof with widespread cracked or delaminating tiles, a metal roof with corrosion through the sheet at laps and fixings, sagging battens or rafters, failed valley irons, or persistent leaks that have not been traced all need repair or replacement first. Paint over any of that buys a season and hides the evidence.

The honest test is whether the problem you are solving is appearance or performance. If the roof is watertight and structurally sound and you dislike the faded colour, coating is a sensible and relatively cheap improvement. If water is getting in, or if the roof is at the end of its service life, the money belongs in roof repairs or replacement instead. There is a middle case that catches people. A roof can be watertight today and still be close enough to the end of its life that spending several thousand dollars on a coating makes little sense, because you will be replacing it within a few years anyway. An independent roof inspection costs a few hundred dollars and answers that question without a sales interest attached.

Be particularly cautious where a contractor arrives to quote a coating and does not raise repairs at all. Every tile roof over twenty years old has some ridge capping deterioration, and a quote that ignores it is either not looking or intends to raise it as a variation once the scaffold is up. Unsolicited door knocking makes roof restoration the most scam prone residential trade in the country. An inspection with photographs settles it.

What Your Roof Is Made Of

Roof material determines everything, so identify it before you do anything else. Concrete tiles Are the most common candidate for coating in South Australia and cover a great deal of post-war and later housing. They are manufactured with a coloured surface layer over grey concrete, and that layer erodes with ultraviolet exposure over decades, leaving the tile porous, faded and prone to moss and lichen. Coating restores appearance and reduces water absorption. This is legitimate work with a real benefit.

Terracotta tiles Are fired clay with the colour inherent in the material rather than applied to it. They are covered in the next section because painting them is a decision people regret. Legitimate operators answer this readily. That question separates two very different quotes.

Metal roofing Covers zinc and aluminium coated steel, pre-painted steel such as Colorbond, and older galvanised iron. All can be repainted with suitable preparation and primer, and the main question is whether corrosion has progressed beyond surface rust. Slate Is a heritage material found on nineteenth century South Australian buildings, including local Mintaro slate. It should not be coated, and repairs are a specialist trade. Slate roofing contractors handle it.

Asbestos cement sheeting Appears on sheds, carports, outbuildings and some houses across South Australia. It has its own section below and the standard preparation method is specifically prohibited on it. If you are unsure what you have, a photograph of a few tiles from ground level is usually enough for a contractor to identify it, and the underside of a broken tile tells the story immediately since terracotta is the same colour through the body while concrete is grey underneath a coloured skin. Worth checking before any deposit.

Why Terracotta Stays Unpainted

Adelaide has a great deal of terracotta roofing, particularly on bungalows and villas built between the 1910s and the 1940s through the inner and middle suburbs, so this comes up constantly here. Terracotta is fired clay. The colour runs through the body of the tile rather than sitting on the surface, which means it does not fade in the way a concrete tile does. A hundred year old terracotta roof that looks weathered is usually dirty, mossy or missing pointing, not worn out.

Painting it introduces problems it did not have. A coating sits on a surface that was designed to breathe and to shed water by shape rather than by film, and it can trap moisture in the tile. It also creates a maintenance obligation that did not previously exist, because the coating will eventually fail and need redoing while the tile underneath would have carried on indefinitely. Removing paint from terracotta afterwards is difficult and frequently incomplete. There is a market dimension as well. In Adelaide's period suburbs an original terracotta roof is a feature buyers look for, and a painted one is commonly read as something to be undone rather than an improvement.

What terracotta does need is maintenance rather than coating: cleaning to remove moss and lichen, repointing the ridge capping, replacing cracked or slipped tiles, and clearing valleys. Terracotta roofing specialists handle that work, and it costs less than a coating while doing considerably more good. A contractor who offers to paint your terracotta roof is worth declining. A tired terracotta roof is almost always a cleaning and repointing job rather than a painting one.

Restoration Versus Painting

These two words are used interchangeably in advertising and they describe quite different amounts of work. Painting means cleaning the roof and applying a coating system. That is it. Restoration means a package, and a full one on a tile roof includes a high pressure clean, removal and rebedding of the ridge capping in fresh mortar, repointing with a flexible pointing compound, replacement of broken and cracked tiles, clearing and repair of valleys, then a primer and two or three coats of the finish system.

The repair components are where the value sits. Ridge capping that has crumbled lets water into the roof space and lets tiles move, and fixing it really extends the roof's life. Coating alone does not. This is why comparing two roof quotes on price is close to meaningless unless you know what each includes. A $3,000 quote and a $7,000 quote on the same roof are often not competing, because one is a wash and a coat and the other is a rebed, repoint, tile replacement and coat.

Ask for the components itemised. How many ridge caps are being rebedded and how many metres repointed, how many tiles are allowed for replacement and what happens if more are needed, whether valleys are included, how many coats, and what the warranty covers. That list converts two incomparable numbers into a real comparison. Cleaning on its own is also a legitimate service and it is underrated. A tile roof that is simply covered in moss and lichen can look dramatically better for $500 to $1,500 with no coating at all. Price a clean before committing to anything larger.

Bedding, Pointing and Ridge Caps

This is the part of a tile roof that actually deteriorates, and understanding it explains most of what a restoration quote is charging for. Ridge caps are the tiles running along the ridges and hips. They sit on a bed of mortar, which is the bedding, and the visible mortar filling the joint between cap and tile is the pointing. Both are exposed to weather, both are rigid, and the roof moves with thermal expansion and with any settlement in the building. Traditional cement pointing cracks and crumbles over time. Once it does, water enters the bedding, the bedding breaks down, and eventually the caps loosen.

Repointing is applying fresh pointing over sound bedding, and rebedding is removing the caps entirely and laying them on new mortar. Repointing costs less and suits a roof where the bedding is still solid, while rebedding is the full repair and is needed where the bedding has failed. A quote should say which it is doing, because they are not the same job. Flexible pointing compounds have largely replaced rigid cement for the pointing layer because they accommodate movement instead of cracking, and on Adelaide's reactive clay soils, where houses move seasonally, that flexibility matters more than it would elsewhere.

The reason this belongs in a painting conversation is sequencing. Repointing must happen before coating, and a roof coated over crumbling pointing has had money spent in the wrong order. Tile roofing contractors handle the repair side where a coating contractor does not. Repointing after coating means walking on and marking a fresh membrane.

Metal and Colorbond Roofs

Metal roofs repaint well, and the question is almost always whether corrosion has gone too far rather than whether the coating will bond. Preparation is most of the job. The roof needs a thorough wash to remove dirt, chalk and salt, treatment of any surface rust with a converting or inhibiting primer, replacement of any perished sealant and rusted fasteners, and a suitable primer for the substrate before the finish coats. Pre-painted steel such as Colorbond needs the chalked factory finish washed and stabilised, because a coating over chalk lifts with it.

The inspection points are the places water sits or metal meets metal. Sheet laps, the fastener heads and washers, valleys, flashings, gutter lines and the bottom edge of sheets. Corrosion starts at those points long before it appears in the open field of the sheet. Where rust has perforated the sheet, coating is not the answer. Sheet replacement or a new roof is, and a coating over a hole is simply a hole with paint on it.

Coastal South Australia changes this calculation considerably. Salt exposure from Semaphore, Largs, Henley, Glenelg, Brighton and Port Noarlunga around to Victor Harbor, Port Lincoln and both gulfs accelerates corrosion sharply, especially at cut edges and fixings. A metal roof within a few kilometres of the water needs more frequent attention and benefits from a fresh water rinse a few times a year, which costs nothing but time. Where the sheet itself is sound and only the finish has gone, recoating is really good value against replacement. Colorbond roofing contractors can advise where the line sits on your roof.

Asbestos Cement Roofing

Corrugated asbestos cement roofing was installed widely across South Australia through the middle of the twentieth century, and a great deal of it survives on sheds, garages, carports, outbuildings, farm structures and some houses. The standard roof preparation method is high pressure cleaning, and on this material it is specifically the wrong thing to do. High pressure water erodes the cement matrix, releasing fibres into the spray, onto the ground and into the surrounding soil and stormwater. The material is generally safe while intact and undisturbed. It becomes hazardous when broken, cut, drilled, sanded or water blasted.

Where an asbestos cement roof is sound, gentle cleaning by hand with low pressure and a soft brush followed by a sealing coat is an accepted management approach, because sealing reduces fibre release from a weathered surface. Where it is cracked, broken, crumbling or has holes, coating is not the answer and licensed removal is. There is a second hazard specific to this material that matters more on a roof than anywhere else. Asbestos cement sheeting becomes brittle with age and will not reliably carry a person's weight, and falls through fragile roofing are a recognised and serious risk. Anyone walking on one without roof ladders and fall protection is taking a real chance.

Testing is inexpensive relative to the consequences of guessing. Asbestos testing settles it, asbestos roof removal is a licensed trade with its own disposal requirements, and workplace requirements are administered by SafeWork SA. Any roof sheeting on a pre-1990 building is worth establishing before anybody goes up there. Get the licence details and verify them.

Rainwater Tanks and Drinking Water

South Australia has one of the highest rates of rainwater tank use in the country, and this is the consideration most roof coating conversations skip entirely. If your roof feeds a tank, everything you put on that roof ends up in the water. That applies to the cleaning chemicals, the pressure wash runoff, the primer and the coating itself, along with any dust and debris generated during repairs. Two practical steps handle most of it and both should be in the scope.

First, disconnect the downpipes feeding the tank before work starts and leave them disconnected until after the coating has fully cured and the roof has been through a decent rain event or been rinsed. First flush diverters help but they are not designed for this volume of contamination. Second, ask specifically whether the coating system is suitable for a roof collecting water intended for drinking, because not all are and the manufacturer's data sheet will state it. Where the tank supplies drinking water rather than just the garden, this matters considerably more, and general guidance on rainwater tanks and household water quality is published by SA Health. On rural properties where the tank is the only water supply, treat it as a design requirement rather than a detail.

It is also useful to have the tank cleaned after major roof work, since sediment and debris will have entered regardless of precautions. Rainwater tank cleaning is inexpensive and it is easier to arrange as part of the same project than to think about later. Runoff into stormwater during the work is a separate obligation, administered by the South Australian Environment Protection Authority. Disconnect the downpipes before work starts rather than partway through.

Working Around Solar Panels

South Australia has among the highest rates of rooftop solar in the world, so on a large share of houses here this is not a niche question. Panels complicate a roof coating in three ways. They cover roof area that still needs cleaning and coating underneath, they obstruct access across the roof, and they cannot be walked on or leant against. There are two approaches and they cost differently.

Working around the array is cheaper and leaves the roof under the panels uncoated, which is usually acceptable since that area is shaded and protected. The compromise is that the colour boundary may be visible from certain angles, and any deterioration under the panels continues. Removing and refitting the array gives a complete result and costs $600 to $2,000 depending on the number of panels. This is licensed electrical work and must be done by an properly licensed person, not by a painting crew, so it is a separate trade and a separate cost. It is also the moment to check the mounting feet and roof penetrations while they are exposed.

Raise solar at the first phone call rather than at the quote, because a contractor who has not accounted for it will either raise it as a variation or work around it without telling you. Ask what they propose and get it in the written scope. Solar installers handle removal and refitting. Panel removal and refitting is a separate trade and a separate cost of $600 to $2,000.

Heat Reflective Coatings

Roof colour and coating type affect how hot a roof gets, and in the Adelaide climate that is a reasonable thing to think about. A dark roof absorbs considerably more solar radiation than a light one, and on a January afternoon a dark tile roof reaches temperatures well above ambient. Heat reflective coatings are formulated to reflect more of the infrared portion of sunlight than a conventional coating of the same colour, so they run cooler than the colour alone would suggest. The honest position on benefits is that they are real but variable. How much difference a cooler roof makes to the temperature inside your house depends heavily on your ceiling insulation, roof space ventilation, the colour you are coming from and going to, and how the house is used. A poorly insulated roof space benefits far more than a well insulated one.

Be sceptical of specific energy saving percentages quoted at the door. The physics is sound and the numbers attached to it in marketing are frequently not. A more reliable way to think about it is that a lighter colour plus a reflective system plus adequate ceiling insulation plus roof space ventilation all work together, and doing one of the four in isolation delivers less than the brochure implies. Roof insulation and roof ventilation are frequently better value per dollar than the coating upgrade on their own. There is also a plain durability argument for lighter colours in South Australia, since a coating that runs cooler degrades more slowly under this state's ultraviolet exposure.

Height and Fragile Roofs

Roof work is among the higher risk activities in residential building and falls from height are a leading cause of serious injury in the trades. For a contractor, that means fall protection suitable to the roof: harnesses with rated anchor points, edge protection or scaffold on higher and steeper roofs, roof ladders on fragile surfaces, and safe access rather than an extension ladder against a gutter. Workplace requirements are administered by SafeWork SA. For a homeowner, the sensible position is simply not to do this yourself. Roof coating looks like painting and is not, because the consequence of a mistake is a fall rather than a poor finish.

Fragile roofing needs specific mention. Asbestos cement sheeting, old fibre cement, aged polycarbonate and skylights all fail under load without warning, and falls through them are a recurring cause of serious injury. They are not always obvious from above, particularly where sheets have been painted over. Tile roofs are also more fragile than they look. Walking on tiles cracks them, especially older or already weathered ones, which is why some breakage during any roof work is normal and why a scope should include an allowance for replacement.

Ask what access and fall protection a contractor uses. Someone who describes anchor points and harnesses is running a proper operation, and someone who plans to work off a ladder on a two storey roof is not. Someone who describes harnesses and anchor points has thought about it, and someone who has not is a risk to themselves and to you. Ask what the warranty actually covers.

What Roof Coating Warranties Actually Cover

Roof restoration is sold on long warranties more than almost any other residential trade, and the numbers quoted at the door are frequently the most misleading part of the pitch. A ten or fifteen year warranty sounds like a guarantee that the roof will look the same in fifteen years, and it almost never means that. Reading what the document covers, who stands behind it and what voids it is the single most useful thing an owner can do before signing anything. The first distinction is between a product warranty and a workmanship warranty. A paint manufacturer may warrant that the coating itself will not break down within a stated period, which covers the tin rather than the application, and that warranty excludes any failure caused by inadequate preparation. Since inadequate preparation is the overwhelming cause of coating failure on roofs, a product warranty on its own covers very little of what actually goes wrong.

The workmanship warranty is the one that matters and it is only worth what the company behind it is worth. A fifteen year workmanship warranty from an operator who has been trading for two years, has no fixed address and knocked on your door is a document rather than a protection. Ask how long the business has operated under its current name and check the licence and registration before treating the number as meaningful. Read the exclusions rather than the headline. Common ones include storm damage, movement in the roof structure, failures caused by foot traffic, pre-existing defects and any work done by others afterwards, and on a reactive clay site the structural movement exclusion can be broad enough to cover most realistic failure modes.

Ask what maintenance the warranty requires, because many are conditional on periodic inspection or cleaning that the owner has to arrange and document. A warranty that lapses because nobody had the roof inspected in year four is a common and entirely avoidable outcome. A warranty that lapses because nobody inspected the roof in year four is a common and avoidable outcome. Confirm the roof material before pricing.

Door Knockers and Warning Signs

Roof restoration attracts more unsolicited door knocking than any other residential trade in Australia, and the approach has been consistent for decades. The pattern: someone at the door saying they were working nearby and noticed a problem with your roof, an offer to inspect for free, a photograph of damage that may or may not be your roof, a price available only today, and a request for a sizeable deposit. Older residents are targeted disproportionately, which makes it a conversation to have with elderly family members before it happens. The specific signals to treat as decisive are urgency, no written quote, an inability to verify a licence or a physical business address, a demand for cash or a large deposit before work begins, unwillingness to produce a certificate of currency for public liability, and pressure to sign at the door.

Photographs deserve particular scepticism. A photograph of damaged tiles proves nothing about which roof it came from, and there is no way to verify it from the ground. If someone shows you damage, ask them to show you the same spot from your own yard or from a drone image with your house visible. A legitimate contractor gives you a written quote after a proper inspection, leaves you to think about it, holds a building work contractor's licence you can verify, and is still trading next month. Licensing is administered by Consumer and Business Services and consumer protections including misleading conduct by the ACCC.

Timing a Roof Job in South Australia

Roof coating is more weather dependent than almost any other painting work, and getting the timing right affects both the finish and how long it lasts. South Australia gives you a reasonably generous window, but the two ends of the year each present a different problem and neither is obvious until a job goes wrong. Spring and autumn are the reliable seasons. Temperatures sit in the range most roof membranes are formulated for, overnight dew is manageable, and there is enough dry weather to complete cleaning, repairs, priming and two coats without a break. Most established operators book these periods out well in advance, which is itself a reasonable signal.

Midsummer is workable but demands an early start. Adelaide roof surfaces reach temperatures far above the air temperature, and a coating applied to a hot tile flashes off before it can flow out and bond properly. Crews that start at dawn and stop by mid-morning are working correctly, and one proposing to coat a north-facing roof at two in the afternoon in January is not. Winter is the season to avoid for coating, though cleaning and repairs are perfectly reasonable then. Low temperatures slow curing, and overnight dew or an unexpected shower on an uncured membrane will ruin a day's work. Most products specify a minimum application temperature and a minimum period of dry weather afterwards, and both are worth asking about.

Build a weather buffer into the schedule rather than treating the quoted duration as fixed. A tile restoration involving cleaning, drying, repointing, priming and two coats needs several consecutive suitable days, and a contractor who promises a fixed completion date regardless of forecast is either lucky or cutting something. A contractor promising a fixed completion date regardless of forecast is either lucky or cutting something. The answer tells you how they work.

Choosing a Roof Contractor Safely

Roof restoration attracts more unsolicited door knocking than any other residential trade in Australia, and South Australia gets its share. That alone should shape how you engage someone, because the business model behind a knock at the door is different from the one behind a contractor you sought out. Nothing here suggests every door knocker is dishonest, only that the burden of checking sits more heavily on you when you did not go looking. Never agree to work on the day it is offered, regardless of the discount attached to deciding immediately. Pressure to sign on the spot is the single most reliable warning sign in this trade, and a legitimate operator will still be available next week at the same price. Take the quote, check the business, and call back.

Check the licence and the business history before anything else. Painting and roof work fall within building work in South Australia and require the right licensing, and the register is public and quick to search. A business trading under a name registered two months ago, with no fixed address and a mobile number only, is not one to hand a deposit to. Be sceptical of anyone who reports damage you cannot verify. A contractor who climbs up uninvited and returns with photographs of cracked tiles is showing you a roof you cannot see yourself, and the photographs may or may not be yours. Ask for images with a recognisable reference point, or have an independent inspection.

Deposits deserve particular caution here. A modest deposit is normal, while a demand for a large proportion of the total before materials arrive is not, and payments should track work completed rather than promises made. Paying by a traceable method rather than cash also gives you options if something goes wrong. Take the quote away rather than signing.

What Drives the Price

Roof material is first, because it decides whether coating is suitable and what preparation the surface needs. Repair content is second and it is usually the largest variable. Ridge capping, tile replacement and valley work can account for more than half a restoration quote on an older roof. Pitch and height come next. A steep roof is slower and needs more fall protection, and a two storey roof adds edge protection and access equipment, together lifting a figure by roughly a third to a half over a single storey of the same area.

Area is straightforward but underestimated, since roof area exceeds floor area once pitch and eaves overhang are counted, and people quoting from a floor plan get a surprise. Solar removal is a real and separate cost through a licensed electrician wherever a complete result is wanted. The coating system spreads the top end, with a basic acrylic at one extreme and a heat reflective membrane with a longer warranty at the other. Ask what the warranty actually covers and for how long, since roof coating warranties vary widely and some exclude the failures most likely to occur.

Roof Coating Costs Across Adelaide

Adelaide pricing tracks roof type and age, and the housing stock creates a fairly clear split between the terracotta belt of the inner and middle suburbs and the concrete tile and metal of the post-war and newer areas. Concrete tile stock across the post-war suburbs is the bulk of the restoration market here. Check the business history first. Ask what happens in poor weather.

The terracotta row is the one worth noticing. Cleaning and repointing a terracotta roof costs less than coating a concrete one and is the correct treatment for that material, so owners in the period suburbs frequently spend less than they expected once they know what they have. Ask what the figure assumes about the surface. Getting it in writing takes a moment.

Regional South Australia

Country roof work carries travel and, more importantly, different roof stock and different weather loads. Most operators cover this without prompting. A quick site visit removes the guesswork. Worth raising at the first conversation.

The Adelaide Hills and the Limestone Coast share a problem the plains do not, which is sustained moss and lichen growth driven by higher rainfall, more shade from established trees and longer damp periods. Roofs there need cleaning more often, and overhanging branches trimmed back makes more difference than any coating. Hills properties also sit considerably within mapped bushfire hazard areas, where roof condition matters beyond appearance because gaps at ridge caps, broken tiles and blocked gutters are ember entry points. Preparedness information is published by SAFECOM, and roof and gutter maintenance is part of it.

Rural properties are where the rainwater question becomes central rather than optional, since the tank is frequently the only water supply and everything on the roof reaches it. Availability is the real constraint in the far west and north, where fewer contractors cover long distances and roof work is weather dependent on top of that. Booking well ahead achieves more than negotiating on rate. Combine gutter cleaning into the same visit anywhere outside the metropolitan area.

What to Look Out For

Identify the roof material before you accept any quote, and decline anyone offering to paint terracotta, slate or asbestos cement. Insist on an inspection with photographs from your own roof. Ask to see the images, ask where on the roof each was taken, and treat generic damage photographs as meaningless. Get the restoration components itemised. Number of ridge caps rebedded, metres repointed, tiles allowed for replacement and what happens if more are needed, valleys, number of coats, and the warranty. Without that list you cannot compare two quotes at all.

Never engage anyone who knocked on your door with an urgent offer and wants a deposit. There is no legitimate reason for urgency in roof coating, and this is the most scam prone trade in the country. Raise rainwater tanks and solar panels at the first conversation. Both change the scope and both are commonly left out until they become variations.

Ask about access and fall protection. It tells you whether you are dealing with an organised business, and it also tells you whether the price is realistic, because proper access costs money and a suspiciously cheap quote often means someone is planning to work off a ladder. Finally, verify the licence and public liability cover yourself. Painting and decorating is building work in South Australia and requires a building work contractor's licence with no dollar threshold, and roof work brings a higher damage risk than most trades. Roof plumbers handle the flashing and drainage work that sits alongside.

What to Look for in a Quote in SA

A roof quote worth comparing states the material, the condition found, the repairs, the coating and the warranty. Specifically: the roof material and approximate area, what the inspection found with photographs attached, the cleaning method and pressure, ridge capping work described as rebedding or repointing with quantities, the tile replacement allowance and the rate beyond it, valley and flashing work, the primer and the number of finish coats with the product named, whether solar panels are being removed or worked around, how rainwater tanks are being protected, the access and fall protection method, the duration, and the warranty with its exclusions. When you enquire, say the roof material if you know it, the approximate age of the house, single or two storey, the roof pitch if it is unusually steep, whether there are solar panels and roughly how many, whether the roof feeds a rainwater tank and whether that tank is used for drinking, whether you have any known leaks, and whether any part of the roof is fibre cement. Photographs from the ground of each elevation help.

Get three quotes and compare the inclusions before the totals. On roofs more than anywhere else, the cheapest quote is frequently a different job rather than a better price. Keep the inspection photographs, the product details and the warranty with your property records. A roof is inspected rarely, so the photographs from this job become the baseline for judging its condition next time, and it matters more than it sounds. You will also find general roofing contractors here for work outside a coating scope.