Top Ways To Reduce Heat From Roof

As the temperature becomes high, shooting the mercury level to the roof, people turn on their air conditioner. However, in Pakistan, where electricity is enough for our homes, being fully reliant on air conditioning is not suggested at all. Therefore, let’s talk about other options besides taking a dip in the swimming pool every other day. As we know that all the build-up heat enters our home through our roof and walls. In order to reduce heat from the roof, here are some ways that would help you protect your roof from water as well as heat.

Use Bitumen Membrane With White Paint

In Pakistan, most of the roofs are plain and level, so there are some options to apply in order to reduce heat from the roof. Using a modified bitumen membrane is a good suggestion that works best. These membrane rolls are made up of asphalt or many other adhesives. The membrane is applied by melting the surface where the cool adhesive is located so that it can be applied to the surface without any problem. Even using white paint that was applied on the membrane can reduce heat and also work as the best source of waterproofing Pakistan.

Single Ply Membrane for Reduce Heat

Single ply membrane is a vinyl sheet with a special type of coating used to protect from sun radiation. The single-ply membrane is applied over the roof through the highly effective adhesive, or mechanical fasteners to properly get attached to the surface of your rooftops. With a compound that is used to decrease the total solar reflectivity, the single-ply membrane is made up of thermoplastic polyolefin and Polyvinyl Chloride compound which is an effective membrane to reduce heat from the roof and also made it cheap to purchase.

Build Up Roofing

Build-up roofing is used for flat or less sloped roofs, which helps to reduce heat from the roof. Through layering with bitumen or asphalt, along with applying inexpensive minerals as a protective layer using a cluster of rocks, gravel, and various other light-colored marbles with better solar reflectivity. Multiple layers will reduce heat from the roof and along with the ability to trap water inside the layers as well.

Apply Cool Roof Coatings to Reduce Heat

For all types of roofs, a cool roof coating is the best option. The application of chemically tuned coats over the top of the roof increases the propensity of high solar reflectivity which reduces the heat radiation entering the rooms. Contentious and elastomeric coating is the most popular roof cool coatings in Pakistan. With the help of spray, roller, brush, or mopping these chemicals are applied over your roof. Multiple layers of coating will help to reduce heat from the roof.

Use Metal Sheets to Reduce Heat

Slanted rooftops have few options when it comes to proper roof heatproofing in Islamabad, although, we don’t want anyone to be deprived of having the basic right to remain cool during the hot summer season. Unpainted metal sheets are a good source of roof heatproofing as it usually has highly solar reflectivity. However as the nature of steel is, it tends to work as a good conductor, so more heat radiation adds up into the sheet. In order to decrease such dilemma, we can apply roof cool coatings over the metal sheet, which has better solar reflectivity and become less reluctant to add up radiation from direct sunlight.