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JimS

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What is the best fix for a leaky container roof? Still usable except for some pin holes in the top. Is tarring the best/chepaest
route or should I put some sort of roof on?
 
Tar might be the cheapest, cool seal may be better. It white so make it cooler inside. Also I think it more rubber like and should last longer. Google it.
 
Have never used it on a container before, but any time I need to patch nail or screw holes in metal roofing, I just use a small square of aluminum tape. I have tape patches that have lasted for nearly a decade! However, the tape needs a good, solid and smooth area to stick to, so if the area is rough with rust, forget it.
 
Real roofing tar not that garbage in a can. As a kid i can remember the big rage through mid 50s and up was that silver tar stuff. Did a heck of a job.
 

if its a flat corragated roof, with no slope.... its gonna keep getting worse.


maybe lay a beam down the centerline, and put some tin on it to get slope and drainage.. also ventilation between the former and the latter?????? :roll:
 
the latest fix for container around here, is before they leak or after you fix the leak. go inside the container and use a piece of pipe that goes to the ceiling and can rest on a floor jack and jack up the roof in the center, for the length, to make it shed water.
 
When in college I own a mobile home roof coating was tar with aluminum fiber. Over time, it will dry, crack, peal off. Cool seal lasted longer, not to mention COOLER.
 
Hi, don't use the stuff in a spray can. It is crap. The best I can suggest is that you clean the area and use the tar flat roofers use. Just melt it in a can then swab it on with a brush. Ed Will Oliver BC
 

I agree with the cool seal, but whatever you use you are wasting your time if you don't kill the rust first. The rust will continue to grow under your patch and in a few months patch and rust will blow away. Use any phosphoric acid product.
 
I agree with Mike. I use this for bin roofs. I have a storage van that I have used nnalert that is in gallons or fives.
 
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