Cool Metal Roofing Colors

This guide focuses on color selection.

Cool metal roofing colors. Unpainted metals are typically good solar reflectors but poor thermal emitters so they rarely satisfy low slope cool roof requirements. Sri is measured on a scale of 0 100 with 100 being the coolest possible. This measurement is very important in determining how well metal roofing and its color will work on a roof. Learn more about sustainable building solutions and check out our reflectance technical bulletin.

In the case of a cool metal roof a lower surface temperature translates into less heat gain into the attic space or living space below the roof. Berridge colors include 25 standard colors 2 premium colors 6 metallic colors and our natural metal finish. Cool metal roofing coated with kynar 500 based resin is one way to limit the urban heat island effect. It s important to note that trapped heat in a roofing system can cause damage and require roofs to be replaced more often.

Such a roof can be reasonably expected to be some 50 to 60 degrees cooler than a dark color asphalt shingles roof. Practically speaking color considerations don t matter. Browse all of our available colors here or visit product pages to see the colors on individual product renders. A cool metal roof with high solar reflectance and high thermal emittance would have a lower surface temperature as compared to a roof with low reflectance and low emittance.

Styles relate to the shape of the metal when installed on a roof such as standing seam corrugated panels or tiles. In addition to curb appeal it is important to consider the quality of the metal roof paint. Metal roofing utilizing cool colors are known to have energy savings ranging from 7 15 of overall cooling costs. Bridger steel offers roofing and siding panels in cool roof colors which are created with highly reflective paint to help the metal panels reflect sunlight and absorb less heat.

These cool colors have also been tested and maintained through the cool roof rating council crrc. Urban heat island a built environment where the large portion of dark absorbing. In fact a high end kynar 500 white metal roof is energy star rated and classified as a cool roof by the cool roof rating council. To review the lrv and sri values of our metal colors check out our color performance data chart here.

Kynar 500 based painted metal roofing can achieve solar reflectance of over 70. Since more heat is reflected energy bills. How they can be made cool. Metal roofs are available with natural metallic finishes oven baked paint finishes or granular coated surfaces.

The item that every home owner can easily relate to. Metal roofing offers a great variety of styles materials and colors.