The two kinds of mobile home roof coating I have experience with are Snow Roof, which is white and rubbery, and the other kind, which looks like aluminum paint, but has an asphalt base and some kind of fibers in it. Both work pretty well on tin mobile home roofs that are fairly flat. The white Snow Roof seemed to help cut down on solar heat gain in the Summer better than the silvery looking stuff. I applied both products by dumping a puddle out of the 5 gallon buckets and then spreading it around with a cheap broom. On the mobile home we had, the roof needed some recoating every couple of years, or it would leak a small amount, since the panels of the roof flexed some with temperature changes and that opened up cracks at the joints. Incidentally, I sure would never buy another mobile home with a nearly flat roof. I live in snow country and have had to shovel off the roof many times.
I have never tried either product on a sloping roof, but bet they would work pretty well, at least for a couple of years. I think I would treat the rust spots with one of those products that is supposed to convert the rust to a paintable surface before I tried putting on the mobile home goop. The rust converters I have used end up black.
If you have never worked on a sheet metal roof, I suggest that you be ultra careful. They can really get slick, and before you know it, you are falling off the edge, since there is nothing to grab to hang onto. So when I am working on a metal roof, I always have a rope over the peak and securely tied to an immovable object on the ground. Having the rope attached to a safety harness that you are wearing is the best situation, but just having the rope close to you and ready to grab has always been enough for me. It is flat scary to find yourself sliding out of control on a metal roof, especially when that roof is about 16 feet off the ground and you don't know what might be under you! BTDT, never again!
There may be better alternatives to the mobile home roof coatings, but the mobile home coatings are not all that expensive and definitely can be applied by just about anyone. It just might need to be done again sooner than some other kind of paint. Just be super careful and use a safety rope. Good luck!
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