High Reflective Roof Shingles

Our highly reflective shingles can help to reduce temperatures in your attic so your home will stay cooler in the summer to help save on air conditioning costs.

High reflective roof shingles. How to install roof shingles. Iko s cambridge arctic white achieves an sri of 23. Americans spend about 40 billion annually to air condition buildings sixth of all electricity generated in this country. What you decide on here can make a huge difference.

Presidential shake solaris in the color autumn blend can reflect up to 18 percent of the sun s energy. It is hard to find dark roofing materials with high reflectivity. In today s cool roofing market the most advanced solar reflective shingles can reflect 40 of the sunlight that hits them. Shingle roofs consist of overlapping panels made from a variety of materials such as fiberglass asphalt wood polymers or metals.

We thought that it was a great question and decided to crunch the numbers and do a quick case study on the timberline cool series shingle to find an answer. How they can be made cool. The landmark solaris platinum solar reflective shingles represent an industry breakthrough in technology achieving a level of 40 solar reflectivity by far the highest level of reflectivity in the asphalt shingle industry. Reflective coatings come in white a variety of darker colors and in high reflection coatings.

Some customers have asked if we will ever have a 100 reflective shingle. Select 2 to 4 items to compare. Refresh your home s curb appeal by replacing your roof shingles. For example a standard black asphalt shingle would have an sri in the low single digits.

Product submissions must include initial emissivity data for all existing and new products. The reflective and emissive properties of roof coverings can change with weathering and age. Coating existing asphalt shingles to make them cool however is not normally recommended or approved by shingle manufacturers. Buy cool asphalt shingles which use specially coated granules that provide better solar reflectance.

To do so these shingles are blended to be lighter in color. With the recent release of cool shingles like the timberline cool series from gaf and the 1 500 energy star tax credit for cool roofing materials many folks are asking whether the any energy savings are worth the additional cost. White seal 100 acrylic elastomeric reflective roof coating with high dirt pick up resistance model rc865 2 view the white elastomeric roof coatings 69 00 pail. Roof products originally qualified for the energy star label in february 1999.

1 according to the cool roof rating council cool roofs may save homeowners an average of 7 15 on their total cooling. Timberline ultra hd reflector series shingles have been rated by the cool roof rating council crrc. Thanks to modern reflective technology you can join the green revolution with timberline cs shingles. For just pennies a day more than standard architectural shingles you can enjoy timberline ultra hd reflector series shingles the thickest most ultra dimensional timberline high definition shingle.

The higher the sri the cooler the roof will be.