If your roof is still in good shape, look into applying a white roof coating designed to reflect the sun's rays — New York City even has a program to help building owners coat qualifying roofs ...

But doing it right involves more than buying a couple of expensive five-gallon buckets of white coating, a giant paint roller with a long handle, and climbing a ladder to the roof for a couple of ...

Most of the homes in Florida have a white roof coating,” he says. As far as the tangible benefits, Henson says it’s hard to detect changes on his energy bill because he doesn’t have central ...

About 50 families who live in Baltimore rowhouses likely slept better on hot summer nights this year as their bedrooms were cooler than last year. That’s because they now sleep under a cool ...

Most major coatings producers have cool-roof products, typically in white and silver, as do smaller and specialty coatings firms. “This product category, which enables energy savings ...

There is so much recent interest in white roofs, that the Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association has established a White Coatings Council composed of 23 companies, including some of the largest ...

Berkeley Lab engineers have developed a roof coating that can keep a building ... and compared them to samples of commercial dark and white roof materials. Wireless devices measured changes ...

The coating, if used on enough buildings at once ... “Not everyone wants a white roof on their house, and paint companies have been trying to develop ‘cool colors’ for decades.” ...

A clean white roof can stay up to 50°F cooler than ... silicone, or polyurethane roof coatings and primers. It is not a good ...

These work. On a summer afternoon, estimates Berkeley Lab, a white roof will stay at least 31 degrees Celsius (55 Fahrenheit) cooler than a darker one. But for practical and aesthetic reasons ...