| ather is getting warmer and with the warmer | | | | save you money though, it is also a green solution to |
| summer weather comes the inevitable high cost that | | | | a problem that millions of people try to solve with |
| keeping cool causes home owners when they switch | | | | electrical solutions every summer. |
| on their air conditioning. Across the nation, particularly | | | | A reflective type of roofing has the added benefit of |
| in areas like California and Texas, home owners | | | | being able to be fitted to any house that has |
| struggle to keep their homes cool. Rolling brownouts | | | | standard roofing material already, unlike some of the |
| or blackouts have been experienced by many | | | | other ways that passive cooling can be built into a |
| residents due to a shortage of electricity at times in | | | | home during construction or design stages. In some |
| past years. | | | | areas that are particularly warm or where the house |
| In some areas, home owners spend insane amounts | | | | styles permit, some home owners paint their roof |
| of money using technology to cool their homes in the | | | | white to get the best benefits out of this type of |
| summer time while there are many areas of the | | | | passive cooling. |
| world which do not use air conditioning at all and live | | | | With standard asphalt shingles, substantial amounts of |
| quite comfortably. These areas use a technique called | | | | heat from the sun striking your home can enter your |
| “passive cooling” to keep their homes | | | | living space; the black colour traps the heat in the |
| comfortable during the warm seasons; passive | | | | shingles instead of reflecting it back. With reflective |
| cooling does not require mechanical means to keep a | | | | roofing materials, whether that is a white painted |
| home cool, instead relaying on strategies like shade | | | | roof or reflective material tiles, your home can be |
| and ventilation to keep the home cool. | | | | kept much cooler. |
| One of the best ways that you can keep the cost | | | | If you are spending large amounts of money on |
| of keeping cool down this summer is by upgrading | | | | keeping your home cool in the warm summer months |
| your roofing to an eco-friendly reflective type that | | | | or you are looking for a way to make your home |
| can help prevent your roof from absorbing and | | | | more green, look into re-roofing your home with |
| rereleasing heat into your home. A white or reflective | | | | reflective energy-efficient tiles; you will be surprised |
| roof can save you months of discomfort in the | | | | what a great difference there is in comfort and on |
| summer as well as hundreds of dollars a year in | | | | your pocketbook. |
| electricity savings. Not only does a reflective roof | | | | |