Hello! Unfortunately, anything that you adhere to the paint or coat the roof with will void the paint warranty. I'm not familiar with anything that will reduce glare after the fact. After a season or two of weathering, metal roofs often get less shiny and will lose some of that initial extreme sheen, but I'm not sure if that will be enough to satisfy the neighbors. Sorry I don't have more to offer you there! Your contractor might have some thoughts if you reach out to them. -Thad

@@TheMetalRoofingChannel Thank you, Thad.

My guess is he’s joking that price is literally laughable

@@charlesmccoy2680 That's the thing. H is for sure NOT joking. I just want to educate myself because he's trying to take advantage of me not knowing anything about it. I did look the house up on Zillow and found out that it's 1000 square feet. I'm hoping if I can come back with a counter offer and some more information I can avoid getting myself scheduled. I've also watched a few videos and everyone says you have to clean and treat the rust first. He claims I can just pressure wash it and just paint over the rust. I'm just asking for some knowledge and pointers.

*screwed (not scheduled)

personally i would rent a 5 bag sandblast pot and get a few bags of black beauty and brush blasted the whole roof then blew it off with the blast hose to clean it. then rolled a good coat of iron oxide primer on it followed 2 days later by rolling a good coat of white hi-gloss industrial enamel on it then repeat the 2nd coat of white oil enamel the next day. you would have to come back 8 years later and wash it off with a powerwasher and soap , let it dry ,then roll one more coat of white industrial enamel on it to make sure you would get another 15 years out of it. the white reflects the suns heat and makes it much cooler under there in summers, and the hi gloss enamel makes snow and rain&dirt run off fast as it does off a cars finish. the cost would be -the customer buys the materials - i get $300 cash an 8 hr day until its done. it would take me one full day to brush blast it and one to roll it with primer and one to roll it with each finish coat - $1200 my labor plus materials. plus i need a $75 a day helper to manage the blast pot and air compressor on the ground and hand me things and deal with my safety rope hold ladder etc. so $300 for him. thats to do it correctly. ..and thats a GOOD deal ! (because i'm a nice guy)

@@justaguy-69 Thanks so much for the advice. I think at this point my landlord is going to have to find some other sucker to do it for $100. Clearly the amount of work is far beyond my capabilities. I'm 5'5" and 120lb. And I'm certain he has no safety equipment. So I'd rather stay alive securely on the ground than try and do all of that by myself with only a ladder. But now I know what it would take physically, what the materials would cost, as well as labor. I truly appreciate your input.