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Serving Salt Lake City, UT & Nearby Areas
(385) 438-3591
Roof Maxx is a plant-based oil treatment that soaks into aging asphalt shingles and restores the flexibility Utah's sun bakes out of them. I say it plainly: Roof Maxx is not snake oil, and it does not fix leaks. It buys a good roof more years.
Treat an aging roof that still looks good; skip the treatment if damage is already widespread.
The oil restores pliability to dried-out asphalt, which is what thermal cycling destroys in Utah roofs.
Have your roof assessed before you decide between restoring and replacing.
Utah's sun bakes the flexibility out of shingles. Restoration puts it back, and it only makes sense while your roof still has life left.
Mattie Tueller, Master Roofing
Roof Maxx is a plant-based oil that soaks into asphalt shingles and replaces the natural oils they lose as they age. New shingles are flexible; old shingles turn brittle. The treatment restores that flexibility so the shingle can keep moving with the weather instead of cracking.
The treatment works on one thing: the asphalt itself.
Roof Maxx publishes a five-year warranty per treatment. A roof can usually be treated more than once as it continues to age. What the spray cannot do is fix anything that has already failed. That's why an assessment always comes first.
Asphalt shingles age by drying out. Utah works them hard: shingles expand in the afternoon sun and contract at night. Once the asphalt has lost its natural oils, that daily movement cracks the shingle instead of flexing it.
Utah is one of the driest states in the country. Its cloudless summers bake roofs all afternoon while nights drop them right back down. That swing is thermal cycling. It is what turns a flexible shingle into a brittle one.
An asphalt shingle roof in Utah lasts about 20 years if you're lucky. The last stretch of that life is when cracking accelerates. Restoring pliability before the cracking takes hold is the entire logic of the treatment: the shingle keeps flexing. So it keeps shedding water.
Roof Maxx does not fix leaks, replace failed flashing, or bring back a roof with widespread damage. It treats the asphalt in the shingle, and nothing else on the roof.
Whether restoring beats replacing on your specific roof is its own decision. The rest of this topic cluster walks through it.
A treatment starts with an assessment, not a sprayer. The roof gets evaluated first, needed repairs happen before any oil goes on. Then the treatment is applied and soaks in.
The honest version of this service is a roofer who will tell you which of those first two steps your roof actually needs, even when the answer is "not the spray."
I carry Roof Maxx because of a gap I watched for years: most roofing contractors are replacement contractors. So a homeowner with an aging roof only ever gets shown two doors, patch it or replace it. The middle door almost never comes up, because the companies quoting you don't carry it.
A roof is a service, not a product. My job is keeping water out of your house for the least money over the 20 years you live under the decision. Sometimes the right way to do that is putting oil back into shingles instead of tearing them off. Roof Maxx does one thing well: it puts flexibility back into shingles that still have life in them.
And when it is not the right call, Master Roofing says that too. If the damage is widespread, no spray fixes it. You deserve that answer in your driveway, not a treatment that cannot work.
This article is general information about Utah roofs, not an assessment of yours. Every roof is different, and no article can tell you what is actually happening on your specific house. Have a licensed roofing contractor look at it in person before you act on anything here.
Roof Maxx publishes a five-year warranty per treatment. A roof can usually be treated more than once as it continues to age. The honest range depends on the roof's condition when treated: a roof treated at the right time gets more from each application than one treated too late. An assessment tells you which one yours is.
No. A leak means something on the roof has already failed, and oil does not repair failures. The leak needs a real repair first: finding the entry point, fixing the detail that failed, and verifying the fix. Once the roof is watertight, a treatment can still make sense if the rest of the shingles are in decent shape.
Yes. The treatment restores oils in asphalt, so it only applies to asphalt shingle roofs. Metal, membrane, tile, and wood roofs age differently and have their own maintenance paths. If you are not sure what your roof needs, an assessment sorts that out faster than guessing from the ground.
The category has attracted operators who spray roofs that are too far gone and promise results the treatment cannot deliver. When a roof with widespread damage gets treated anyway, the homeowner pays for a spray and still needs a replacement, and that story spreads. Applied to the right roof at the right time, the treatment does what it says.
Yes. The assessment before treatment is what catches the repairs a spray cannot fix. A roof should get professional eyes on it about every five years either way. A treatment is maintenance for the shingles, not a substitute for knowing what is happening with flashings, ventilation. The details where roofs actually fail.
We're here to see what's going on with your roof. A real assessment starts with your history and your attic, not a number from the driveway. You'll get a straight answer about what's up there, what it needs, and what it costs. Sometimes the honest answer is: your roof looks great.