Cool Metal Roofing Colors

Metal roofing offers a great variety of styles materials and colors.

Cool metal roofing colors.

In addition to curb appeal it is important to consider the quality of the metal roof paint. 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. Learn more about sustainable building solutions and check out our reflectance technical bulletin. To review the lrv and sri values of our metal colors check out our color performance data chart here.

Styles relate to the shape of the metal when installed on a roof such as standing seam corrugated panels or tiles. Sri is measured on a scale of 0 100 with 100 being the coolest possible. These cool colors have also been tested and maintained through the cool roof rating council crrc. Since metal is a lifetime material and your new roof will cost at least 9 000 11 000 you want to pick a color that you will be happy with for many years to come.

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. Browse all of our available colors here or visit product pages to see the colors on individual product renders. It s important to note that trapped heat in a roofing system can cause damage and require roofs to be replaced more often. 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.

Urban heat island a built environment where the large portion of dark absorbing. Kynar 500 based painted metal roofing can achieve solar reflectance of over 70. How they can be made cool. Berridge colors include 25 standard colors 2 premium colors 6 metallic colors and our natural metal finish.

Metal roofs are available with natural metallic finishes oven baked paint finishes or granular coated surfaces. Cool metal roofing coated with kynar 500 based resin is one way to limit the urban heat island effect. Unpainted metals are typically good solar reflectors but poor thermal emitters so they rarely satisfy low slope cool roof requirements. The item that every home owner can easily relate to.

This measurement is very important in determining how well metal roofing and its color will work on a roof. Since more heat is reflected energy bills. Such a roof can be reasonably expected to be some 50 to 60 degrees cooler than a dark color asphalt shingles roof. Metal roofing utilizing cool colors are known to have energy savings ranging from 7 15 of overall cooling costs.

Practically speaking color considerations don t matter. 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.