If you live in an area where excessive heat is a problem, you might want to look into cool roofing. These are materials that are installed to reflect the sun’s radiation away from your home and make it cooler. It could be in the form of a coating or single ply membrane that was applied to the roofing material at the factory, or to your existing roof.
A cool roof will significantly lower your cooling cost in the summertime because it reflects the heat away unlike regular roofs that retain the heat.
Cool roofs also last longer than other roofing materials, because it doesn’t suffer the ill effects of thermal cycling to the same extent. Thermal cycling is the process a material goes through when cooling down and heating up over time and due to this expanding and retracting unevenly.
Even though installing a cool roof might cost you extra, there is a possibility that you could get an incentive from your utility company to alleviate some of the cost.
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