Stone Coated Vents and Flashings in Pleasanton, CA

Anyone who has lived through a few Pleasanton summers knows the pattern. A new roof goes on, the roofer knocks the shine off the vents with a can of paint, and for one season it looks right. After that the sun takes over. The color drifts toward chalk, bare metal starts to show along the edges, and the ring of overspray around each pipe ends up a slightly different shade from everything else. From the sidewalk the roof still looks good. The metal on it does not.

Stone coating is a different finish from paint altogether: a textured stone surface on the metal, not a thin film for the sun to cook. Thanks to a proprietary formulation, our products are made to withstand hail, freeze, thaw and extreme heat, and the finish holds up with no UV deterioration. Nobody has to climb back up with a spray can in three years, because no additional painting is necessary, ever. That is the job a Tri-Valley roof needs the metal to do.

Pleasanton's housing covers a lot of ground. On the blocks around Main Street, some downtown homes go back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, with steep roofs and short runs of flashing wherever an old addition meets the original house. The 1960s and 1970s brought big tract neighborhoods such as Valley Trails and Pleasanton Valley, most of them under composition shingle today after a reroof or two. Later building pushed into the hills and toward the vineyards, with Kottinger Ranch in the hills southeast of downtown and the gated streets of Ruby Hill out among the vineyards, where concrete and clay tile are common and the houses are big enough to carry a long list of roof penetrations.

Every one of those roofs shares the same weak spot. A plumbing vent, a water heater flue, a few exhaust caps, maybe some low profile O'Hagin style vents: each of them jumps out if the metal is bare or the paint has faded. On a Terra Cotta or Mission Brown tile roof, a silver pipe is the first thing the eye catches from the driveway. We match any color, and custom color blending is there for the roofs that fall between standard shades, so the vents take on the color of the roof. For larger custom homes we can also create Defender Series™ products in custom colors, including flashings such as crickets and saddles.

Start with the pipe jack, because it is on every house in town. Roof jack flashings are our specialty, and the usual trouble spot on a plumbing flashing is the seam on the cone, which paint cannot seal. On our pipe jacks that seam is closed with an adhesive that bonds with the metal, so the flashing is water tight at the seam before it ever reaches a Pleasanton roof. The broader stone coated flashings line takes in valley, nosing, roof to wall, saddle, skylight and steep flashings, plus specialty pieces you send us to coat.

Vents come next. An attic in a hot valley depends on its exhaust vents, and those vents sit exactly where the sun hits hardest. Our stone coated vents include low profile O'Hagin vents, dormer vents, elbow vents, double wall vent pipe, heat pipes and vent caps, all finished to the roof color.

Then there is the Rapid Sleeve, a stone coated 10 inch metal sleeve for plumber vents with an elongated drip cap and a lower flare that seals the vent. It takes the rubber collar out of the picture entirely, which matters in a town where rubber spends every summer drying out on the roof. All of it is universal for standard installations and needs no special tools. The full reasoning behind the finish is on our why stone coat page.

Plenty of Pleasanton neighborhoods sit under homeowner associations that want rooftop metal to blend with the roof. If that describes your street, a color matched vent is an easy thing to bring to your roofer before the job is priced. Contact your local contractor for pricing, because the roofer sets the number, and read our homeowners page for the questions worth asking. If you want to talk about the product itself first, call us.

Roofers can call us directly to order, and our flashings are available at any roofing distributor, so asking yours works too. The turnaround is quick, and the contractors page covers touch up kits, samples and the rest. If your work runs up 680 into Dublin and San Ramon, or east over to Livermore, the parts and the phone number stay the same. The complete list of towns is on our service areas page.