Stone Coated Pipe Flashings for Hayward, CA

West of Mission Boulevard, Hayward is mostly flat and mostly post war. The city grew fast in the 1950s, and block after block of single story tract homes went up, many of them old enough by now to have worn through more than one roof. Downtown and the streets around it hold older houses mixed in with the newer ones. East of Mission the ground rises toward Cal State East Bay and the hill neighborhoods, where the homes are newer, larger and carry more rooflines apiece. Out toward the shoreline and the San Mateo Bridge, the land is flat, open and windy.

When one of those tract homes gets a new roof, the layout is familiar: a low pitch, a couple of plumbing vents, a water heater flue, maybe a furnace vent. Nothing fancy. That plainness is exactly why the pipes show. On a simple low roof there is nothing else for the eye to land on.

The standard way to finish a plumbing vent is a galvanized jack with a rubber collar, then a shot of spray paint to kill the shine. Anyone who has worked in the trade knows how that ages. The rubber dries out and cracks in the sun. The paint fades and flakes. Overspray lands on new shingles and stays there. Sealant around the collar lets go, water finds the gap, and a stain shows up on a ceiling. Then the roofer is back on a ladder for a job that was supposed to be closed out.

That sequence is close to word for word the list we built the Rapid Sleeve to end: rubber collars, spray paint, broken sealant, leaks, overspray, rust, callbacks and failed granulated sock covers. It is a 10 inch metal pipe sleeve with an elongated drip cap and a lower flare that seals any plumber vent, stone coated in the color of the roof. It slides on over the pipe, and that's the whole install.

Afternoon wind off the bay is part of life on the west side of Hayward, and it is rough on anything brittle or loose on a roof. Closer to the shoreline, damp air keeps metal wet longer, which is hard on bare galvanized and harder still on painted metal once the paint has worn through. Up the hill, roofs trade some of that damp for more sun.

Our stone coated finish is built for both ends of town. It resists rust, rot and algae, it doesn't suffer UV deterioration, and its proprietary formulation is made to withstand hail, freeze, thaw and extreme heat. There is no painting to redo, ever, and a 25 year product warranty stands behind it. The coating is low VOC as well.

If you roof in Hayward, you know what a callback costs you. Our products are universal for all standard types of installations, quick to put on, with no special tools or equipment. Skipping the spray painting saves time on every job, and less time finishing a roof means less money spent finishing it.

Then there's the leak most people never think about. Plumbing flashings and assemblies from various manufacturers leak at the seam of the cone, and spray paint can't seal it. On ours, an adhesive that bonds with the metal closes that seam before the part ever reaches a roof. For the rest of the roof, our stone coated flashings cover valley, nosing, roof to wall, saddles and skylights, and our stone coated vents cover O'Hagin vents, dormer vents, elbow vents, heat pipes and vent caps.

The products are reasonably priced, so you can put them on every roof, and they turn into a personal signature of quality that brings in referrals. To order, call (510) 284-2554 or ask your roofing distributor. Our own line on that is simple: available at any roofing distributor. Need a touch up kit for the truck, or a sample to bring along when you're pricing a job? We've got you covered. The full trade pitch is on the contractors page, and the nine reasons we give for stone coating are on why stone coat.

We supply roofers up and down this side of the bay, including San Leandro to the north and Union City to the south, and the full list sits on our service areas page.