White Roof Painting

White roof coating.

White roof painting.

Black jack eterna kote 4 75 gallon silicone reflective roof coating lifetime warranty item 484330. 55 list list price 145 15 145. Painting roofs white has been like changing lightbulbs one of the well cited easy ways out of climate change. Steven chu the u s.

White roof paint will not last and is not made for roofs that have any type of standing water issues. There are many small scale initiatives in cities to make roof surfaces more reflective. New york for instance introduced rules on white roofs into its building codes as long ago as 2012. A white roof coating is an elastomeric reflective thermal barrier protecting and waterproofing the surface to which it is applied.

Not only that you get to save the planet. Volunteers have taken white paint to nearly 7 million square feet of tar roofs in the city though that is still only about 1 percent of the potential roof area. Secretary of energy and a nobel prize winning scientist has said that painting roofs white or another light color would help to reduce global warming by reflecting sunlight back into space it would be like removing every vehicle from the planet for 11 years. 3 out of 5 stars based on 2 reviews 2 ratings current price 111 55 111.

By reflecting more light and heat back to the atmosphere a white roof should act. Even on a pitched roof white roof paint has a very short life span.