Santa Clara, CA Roof Flashings With a Stone Coated Finish
Santa Clara has roofs from nearly every chapter of Bay Area building.
Santa Clara has roofs from nearly every chapter of Bay Area building. Near the Mission and Santa Clara University, the Old Quad holds some of the oldest houses in the city. Out from there spread blocks of postwar ranch homes, and north of the 101 a newer layer of townhomes and apartments has grown up around Levi's Stadium. The roofs could hardly be more different, but the weak spots are the same on all of them: the places where metal comes up through the shingle. California Stone Coating manufactures stone coated flashings, vents and the Rapid Sleeve for exactly those places, finished in the color of the roof.
Old Quad Roofs in Santa Clara: More Planes, More Flashing
The older houses near the university were never built from a tract plan. You find steeper pitches, dormers, porch roofs tied into the main roof, chimneys, and a valley anywhere two planes meet. Each of those details needs metal. A simple ranch roof might carry a few pipes; an older two story house adds valley metal, roof to wall flashing up a dormer cheek, a saddle behind the chimney and nosing along an edge.
That is the work our stone coated flashings exist for. The roofer brochure's list starts with plumbers and assemblies and keeps going through valley, nosing, roof to wall, saddles, skylights and steep flashings, then on to specialty pieces. California Stone Coating can also make Defender Series™ products in custom colors, including flashings such as crickets and saddles. If an old Santa Clara roof needs a shape that is not on anyone's list, we are open to coating the special flashing you already have. Dormer vents belong to our stone coated vents line, along with O'Hagins, elbow vents and caps.
Santa Clara Ranch Houses and the Spray Can Habit
The postwar neighborhoods are simpler, and that simplicity is exactly why a bare pipe shows. On a low, one story roof with a clean field of shingle, a silver plumbing jack sits right where the eye lands. For a long time the answer has been a spray can: the roofer paints the jacks on the last afternoon, the owner is happy for a while, and then the paint starts to go.
In the best case the paint is only cosmetic. The bigger problem sits underneath it, at the seam of the cone, where various manufacturers' flashings leak and where spray paint cannot seal a thing. Every stone coated plumbing flashing we sell has that seam closed with an adhesive that bonds with the metal, sealed water tight before it ever meets a nail.
Our Rapid Sleeve takes the plumbing vent a step further. It is a 10 inch metal pipe sleeve with an elongated drip cap and a lower flare, so there is no rubber collar to dry out, no broken sealant to chase and no overspray left on the shingles around the pipe.
Summer Sun on Santa Clara Rooftops
Santa Clara summers are long, dry and bright, with the kind of afternoon heat that works on anything painted. A painted jack fades unevenly, and a rubber collar around a plumbing vent dries and cracks after enough of those summers. Neither failure is dramatic, which is the trouble: both sit on the roof unnoticed until the stain shows up on a ceiling or the pipe looks like a rusty can.
The stone coated finish is made for that kind of exposure. Thanks to a proprietary formulation, our products are built to withstand hail, freeze, thaw and extreme heat, and our materials describe them as rust, rot, algae, and fire resistant with no UV deterioration. They are maintenance free and backed by a limited 25 year product warranty, which is a long way past one repaint cycle. Our why stone coat page walks through the rest of the reasons.
Ordering Stone Coated Parts for a Santa Clara Reroof
Homeowners do not need to hunt for these parts. Name them in the bid instead: tell your roofer you want stone coated flashings and vents in the shingle color, and the roofer orders them and prices them into the work. Our homeowners page explains what to ask for.
Roofers order by calling (510) 284-2554 or through their roofing distributor. Quick turnaround is one of the things our brochure is proud of, and the color list is wide, from Platinum and Silver Birch to Mission Brown and Hunter Green, with custom blending for anything that falls between. Newer associations on the north side can write one color into the spec for every building. The same parts serve roofs nearby in Sunnyvale and Milpitas, and every town we cover is listed on our service areas page.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. We are a manufacturer and do not come out to roofs. Your roofer sees the roof and installs the parts; we make them and answer questions by phone.
Ask us. The Rapid Sleeve flyer puts the question to roofers directly, "Have a special flashing you want us to coat?", and custom flashings such as crickets and saddles are part of our Defender Series™ line.
They carry a limited 25 year product warranty.
Plan Your Santa Clara Roof Finish With Us
From an Old Quad bungalow to a north side townhome, a Santa Clara roof deserves metal that matches it, and California Stone Coating is glad to talk it through at (510) 284-2554. Roofers call to order and homeowners call with questions, and either way the parts reach your roof through the roofer on the job.