Buildings keep cool through air condition, open windows, but most of all the roof. On a hot day the roof should release not store and absorb the sun’s rays. Traditional roofing materials hold and transfer heat and can transport the heat it downward into your home, but there are other types of roofing materials that will actually reflect light and heat upward which keeps air conditioning costs down. There many roofing options to keep your home cool and safe; research the best for your situation.
4 Roofing Materials that Keep you Cool, but are Heavy
- When you use a hat or an umbrella to keep the sun of this is similiar to what roofing can do for a building. Cool-roof coatings and roofing materials have advanced in the past few years. Elastomeric sealants that include sprays, ceramic-based pain and recycled cooking oil tratments have been used and actually do help keep buildings cook when applied to roofs. Another method is installing under-the-roof materials that involve installing reflective material in an attic between the interior and the roof. These barriers reflect heat away from the home.
- Roofing with tiles and particularly slate tiles is a centuries old style that uses durable and natural materials that last forever with very little maintenance. Light colored slates help reduce the heat absorbed by building because of natural reflective properties. As time goes on, slate wears to a beautiful finish which adds high value to your home. Slate tile roofs, however are extremely heavy and very expensive. Slate is beautiful but is hard to transport and breaks easily when being installed.
- Terra cotta and clay roofing materials have been used in Mexico, Italy, America Southwest and Spain. You will find many subdivisions of homes with red clay roofs that are highly attractive. Basic clay or terra cotta roofing materials are general light in color and do not retain heat. If you install modern clay tiles you will find that there are paint treatments that make tiles look like expensive slate. This painting adds weatherproofing to the tiles. Clay and terra cotta tiles are generally ‘s’ shaped which helps to hold in water and air to further cool buildings and homes. You will find that clay and terra cotta roofs are very heavy and need load bearing foundations. Cold and wet weather will make tiles snap; check for temperature resistance.
- Concrete tile is an option for weather durability. Concrete, however, is heavy but does take quite a bit of time to heat up which makes it ideal for warm weather roofing. Poured concrete slab roofing is lower cost and provides protection from weather and pests. Often poured concrete roofing is the under-layer in more expensive homes. Tile concrete is heavy but it is easier to install than poured concrete, is fireproof, solid and can be dyed to almost any color. Using cool colors with concrete tiles will increase the cooling properties and help the concrete tiling reflect the sun’s rays.
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