Tile Roof Prep & Paint in Faerie Glen, Pretoria

Location: Faerie Glen, Pretoria
Service: Tile Roof Prep & Paint

This Faerie Glen home’s tiled roof had reached the point where its protective top coat could no longer do its job. Years of Pretoria sun had UV-faded and chalked the coating, exposing bare concrete tile in places, while the ridge line had started to crack and shed its bedding cement. With solar panels already installed across large sections of the roof, the owner needed a contractor who could work carefully around the array. Eco Seal was brought in for professional roof painting — repairing the ridges, washing down the full roof and applying a fresh two-coat protective paint system.

The problem with the existing roof

Up close, the tile field showed the classic signs of a coating at the end of its life: dull, patchy colour, algae staining in the shaded sections, and areas where the top coat had worn through to bare concrete. At the ridge line, the bedding cement holding the ridge caps in place had cracked and, in places, gone missing entirely — leaving gaps at the highest point of the roof where water could track straight into the structure. Left alone, both problems compound each other: a failed top coat lets moisture into the tile itself, and a cracked ridge gives that moisture a direct path inside.

The Eco Seal solution

Eco Seal, an approved SealPro applicator, tackled the roof in a sequence built to fix the cause of the damage before refreshing the surface:

1. Rake out and re-fill the ridges — The cracked ridge cement was raked out along the full ridge line and re-filled with fresh fibre cement to rebuild a solid, even base for the caps.
2. Prime and waterproof the ridges — Once filled, the ridges were primed and sealed with the StretchSeal tile roof waterproofing system, a flexible membrane that moves with the roof instead of cracking again under thermal expansion.
3. High-pressure wash the full roof — The entire tile roof was pressure washed by hand to strip away dirt, algae and loose material ahead of painting, working carefully around the solar installation.
4. Two-coat roof paint system — The full roof was then coated in two coats of Marley roof paint, rebuilding UV protection and giving every tile a uniform, durable finish from ridge to eave.

The result

The roof has gone from a faded, algae-marked surface with a cracking ridge line to a rich, uniform terracotta finish with every ridge properly sealed against water ingress. Fixing the ridge cement first means the new paint system isn’t just sitting on top of an old defect — the root cause has been addressed. The solar array stayed fully operational throughout, and the homeowner now has a roof that looks new and is protected for years to come — the same tile roof painting and solar-panel maintenance we carry out across Faerie Glen.

Contact Eco Seal for a free inspection and quote: 083 309 8164 · www.ecoseal.co.za

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