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What an amazing website! Started off with your lifetime deck coating and was so impressed I did my garage, my driveway and the roof of my office building with your products. All are as advertised, you guys need to advertise more! Ron from Miami

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COMMERCIAL ROOF COATING COMPARISON CHART

Below you will find the technical specifications of ArmorGarage Roof Coat versus our most popular competitors. The difference is plain to see. ArmorGarage Roof Shield may cost a few dollars more and have a higher first cost but as with all of our products it's made to provide a much longer useful life span than lower cost lower quality retail grade products.

These types of retail grade products utilize Water and or Silicone as the main component of their bases which are much lower cost substitute materials versus our Copolymer Rubber based coating. The trade off in the lower cost materials(especially water) is in lower performance in key catagories as you can see in the chart below. Armor Roof Shield is an industrial grade roof coating that can be applied by even first timers with professional results that will last. Our roof coating will assure you the lowest cost of ownership(cost/years of useful life) over the long term but we cannot compete with the lower first costs of water.



Company ArmorGarage ~ EPDM Coatings Ames ELastek Lexis Coatings Henry Gardner-Gibson
Product Armor Roof Shield Rubber Roof Super Elasto Solar Extreme 120 Energy Guard HE687 Black Jack 1000
Product Type Copolymer Elastomeric Liquid EPDM Water Based Elastomeric Water Based Elastomeric Butyl Elastomeric Acrylic Elastomeric Water Based Siliconized Acrylic
Coverage 100 sqft/gal 42 sq ft /gal 100sq ft /gal 100 sq ft /gal 30-35 sq ft /gal 40 sq ft /gal 40-50 sq ft /gal
Dried Thickness 17 Mils 20 mils No Data 20 Mils 11 Mils 20 Mils/gal 10 Mils
Density 9.85 lbs/gal 8 lbs/gal No Data/gal 10.6 lbs/gal 7 lbs/gal 12 lbs/gal 11.53 lbs/gal
Tensile Strength 1000 psi 680 psi 250 psi 340 psi 1000 psi ***160 psi Up To 250psi
Hardness 55A 30A Less than 1 No Data 45A No Data No Data
Elongation 500% 200% 1000% 260% 900% ***150% Up To 350%
Cure Time @ 70 Degrees 24-48 hrs 5-7 days 24 Hrs 24-48 hrs 24-48 hrs days 2-3 days 24-48 hrs days
Vapor Transmission. See note below .025 perms .1 perms .9 perms 2.0 perms 5.9 perms 1.3 perms No Data
One Component Product Yes Requires Catalyst Mixing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Primer Required No No No No YES YES No
Ponding Water Rated Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No
Application Temperature Down To 40 F Down To 55 F Down To 40 F Down To 55 F Down To 45 F Down To 40 F Down To 70 F
Energy Star Rated Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
UL Fire Rated Yes No No No No(Flamable Liquid) No Yes
Guarantee 12 Yrs None 1 Yr 7 Yrs *10 Yr 1 Yr 10 Yr


Hardness: This is an indication of how much wear & tear resistance a coating has, the higher the rating the better. Armor Roof Shield is as tough as nails and has the highest hardness rating. It means it is far more resistant to wear than lower rated coatings. Even if you don't walk on your roof you should be concerned about wear. Rain contains lots of particles that it pulls from the air that are very abrasive and along with the Sun is what produces that faded worn out look in roofs and roof coatings. As you can see Rood Shield has the highest hardness rating, each 5 points in hardness is an exponential difference. We strike a great balance between hardness and flexibility making Roof Shield extremely versatile so that it will wear like iron while not cracking or splitting during extreme temperature conditions.

Tensile Strength & Elongation are critical factors as to how much Stress, Expansion and Contraction a coating can withstand before failing. Most other coatings are significantly below Armor Roof Shield. In areas with wide seasonal temperature swings most other coatings are very prone to failure. Ames rating is based on use of Polyester Contouring Roof Fabric(additional labor and material costs).

Elongation: Based on ASTM D-412 test means how much can the coating stretch before cracking, at 500% we offer plenty of expansion capability.

Vapor Transmission or Permeability- Perhaps the most important factor of all, whereas the lower the rating the better the coating resists water and vapor transmission. Armor Roof is four times less Permeable than Liquid Roof and multiple times better than the rest. Simply put, it means Armor Roof is far superior at preventing water and moisture transmission through your roof! Some roof coatings have ratings that are barely below the threshold where moisture will penetrate them. With these coatings just a tiny bit of wear will cause them to start leaking. Black Jack 1000 is not approved for use on Flat Roofs.

Application Temperature: An important factor to keep in mind, this is the temperature at which the coating stops curing and is vulnerable to rain and or not having the curing process restarting. The same holds true for the curing time, until the coating is fully cured it is vulnerable to being washed away. We receive many calls from customers who had other popular brands just washed right off their roofs.

*** Henry's product not recommended for Old Roofs, Rubber or PVC Roofs.

*Gaurantee-10 Yr only when applied by certified Lexis applicator.

~Epdm Coatings, Liquid Roof and Pro Guard are the same product and therefore have the same specifications.

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