Roof Restoration, Heat Reflective Coatings
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Roof restoration might not immediately appear to have a direct connection with comfort and your carbon footprint, but whether you are restoring the roof of a 1,000 square foot home or a 1,000 square metre office building, the connection exists. Even if you are not interested, you are sure to have an interest in your comfort and what it costs you to keep cool!
It's sometimes difficult to keep your cool, and even the most self-respecting Aussie can get hot under the collar with all that summer sun beating down on your roof all day and the poms up on the first day. You might think that there's no answer to it, but it's amazing what a good heat reflective coating on your roof can do.
Do you realize that a good roof restoration coating can reduce the heat of your roof by as much as 40 degrees, and even the temperature inside your home by over 20 degrees? It's easier to understand if we have a closer look at how the sun can heat up your house so much. It all starts with the radiant heat from the sun acting on your walls and roof.
As these absorb the sun's radiant heat, that heat conducts through into the whole structure of your house or office. The end result is a significant increase, not only in the internal temperature of the building, but also of the external temperature of the roof, bricks and mortar. Traditional roof vents can't release enough heat to make up for what is absorbed, and whirlybirds are equally ineffective.
The only effective means of reducing this massive increase in temperature, when the sun gets really hot, is to have a heat reflective coating or paint on your roof. The best of these coatings are not only heat reflective, but also insulating and protective, and can repair damaged and worn roofs. Such roof restoration heat reflective coatings not only restore your roof but also provide you financial benefits and reduce the CO2 emissions for which you are responsible.
Another reason why roof restoration could be necessary if you do not take such an action, is that the continual, expansion and contraction of a roof can cause significant damage over a short period of time, whether it is a domestic or commercial unit. Roof restoration coatings can prevent a recurrence of such damage if made from heat reflective components. In fact, it is difficult to make a case for a roof restoration coating or paint that is not heat reflective.
It pays for itself in a short period of time: after all, what is 50% of your air conditioning bill? Take that along with the reduction in heating costs in the winter and you have a significant saving that will rapidly offset the capital cost of the coating. Such roof restoration heat reflective paints have been reported to be effective in cooling down premises for almost 30 years after application!
If you adopt other uses for your roof, such as solar panels, you could lose out over a heat reflective roof restoration coating. Sure, a solar panel can generate electricity, but if you take the capital cost of the panels and compare that with the energy savings of a heat reflective paint, the paint wins hands down every time. Don't forget that in a hot climate most energy is used in keeping you cool, and in these terms a heat reflective coating with its 50% saving on your air conditioning costs also saves on CO2 emissions and is ultimately more economical in terms of both cash and the environment.
So let's compare the options. On the one hand you have a roof restoration solution that can offer comfort by maintaining comfortable temperatures in the height of summer while prevent excessive use of heating systems in winter. On the other hand, you have the traditional system that has no environmental effect but still protects your roof.
It really is a no brainer, since any roof restoration that can offer reduced expenditure for air conditioning in summer and for space heating in winter must be the preferred option. If you consider that if you use heat reflective coatings in your roof restoration then you will also reduce your carbon footprint, then the choice is quite obvious.
There are few doubts that if your roof needs refurbishment, whether it be a domestic building, an office or a factory unit, then roof restoration with a heat reflective coating is by far the best option irrespective of whether you are considering the choices from a financial or an environmental point of view.
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