The list of snow retention products continues to grow, and every manufacturer claims to be the best, the leader, or the “premier choice.” Sorting the facts from the sales rhetoric can be tiring. But ColorGard® really does differ from all others, and we back our sales pitch with a warranty: ColorGard® is the only product available that will perfectly match the roof color for the entire life of the roof.
The premium paint finishes used on metal panels are “coil-coated." This paint application method utilizes state-of-the-art technologies, chemical pretreatment, primer and finish coat application, and controlled oven curing. Only through this lengthy process can high quality Kynar and Hylar (PVDF) finishes be applied and warranted against color fade for 20 years and longer.
Our competitors have tried everything in their attempts to match the color and performance of factory coil-coating methods: Anodizing, powder coating, dye and air-dried paints – even powder coating with Kynar resin. But nothing ever comes close. Even when these methods produce perfect paint matches, the match doesn’t last. In a few short years the inferior paint on the snow guard reveals itself as it fades noticeably faster than the roof, creating an effect that is strikingly unattractive. Even powder coating with Kynar resin cannot equal the performance of coil-coated Kynar.
ColorGard® is the only product that uses the same factory applied (coil-coated) finish and inorganic pigments as the roof itself. We do this by incorporating a strip of the actual roof material in the ColorGard® system, for a perfect match of roof and snow guard — forever!
