Hi, I'm Eric with Commercial Roof USA. I'm here on a commercial roof today and this is a metal roof and now the metal roof was starting to show us age so the people decided you know they need to you know do something about it So they went with a silicon coating Now the here's the exact reason why we don't recommend putting a coating on this now they put a coating and it looks pretty nice If you look everywhere looks uniform it looks very nice But the issue comes three four five years later and this is exactly what happens I think this is the fifth year and this is what happens you get tiny holes in the silicone and then it holds the water and it starts rusting through and here's a perfect example right here Where we opened it up and like you can see it just folds back and look how wet it is in here and look at all this rust You see that it's starting to go through I can feel it here There's water sitting here right now and the problem is it doesn't get a chance to evaporate doesn't go away So it rusts through even more look out look at the puggling and it goes all the way down in there All right, and let me show you another example This is how it looks like before we rip it open right here You can see like there's just a pin prick like a little hole here You can see it's crunchy in here because that's where all the rust is So there are several issues with silicone and another problem is when you get to the joints and I'll show you that in just a minute Here's another issue right here. It's impossible to get the silicone to sit properly right here where the right to lip is and you can see This is why we can't recommend coatings because what it does is it basically just holds the water there and then with the heat from the sun And with the moisture there it just it's gonna go through even quicker You would have been better off without anything on this roof We we actually would have preferred it that way because now when you have to repair now what we have to do is we have to come in here we have the grind off all this The silicone which is a big mess and then we have to get the rust off of there with even more problems and fix the holes that the rust has made And then we can start patching it So this has become a bigger problem because they decided to coat it instead of trying to fix the actual problem Here we've done one of our patches already and the process that we do is first we have to get the silicone off and And then we have to grind down the metal because of all the rust that was on there and fix the holes And then what we did was we put down our Adhesive that you can see here on the sides and then we put down our modified by two-man membrane Now the reason we use this and why this will work where the silicone did not because a membrane won't go through like the silicone will The silicone as you could see when I showed you over there, you know, just a simple small little pin prick of a hole Caused the problem this nothing's gonna pierce through this and even if it did There's the adhesive under here and the water can't get out of the need this This can stay like this for the next 20 to 30 years nothing will happen silicone breaks up And just the sear the shear thickness of our material also is gonna prevent anything from going through with the silicone I don't even know I don't know how thick that is but you can see let me grab a piece here You can see how thin that is That's gonna get eaten up by UV and UV rays in no time this our membrane already has UV protection and it's three million million thick as well as having Adhesive petroleum-based adhesive underneath that which adheres to metal very well