Insulation and Heat Resistant Paint

When you are thinking about efficiently cooling down your home inside, we normally think air conditioning or external roof ventilation products like whirlybirds. There are new energy saving and cheaper alternatives available on the market. One of these is heat reflective paint.

With global warming becoming a well known problem world wide, reducing our electricity bill has become more than financial motivation. Keeping our house cooler with using a different type of roof paint that reflects the heat can have be effective energy saver .

Effective heat insulation will stop your building from heating up, reflecting the heat before it gets inside and minimizing the use of air conditioning.

It can come very expensive to keep cool using air con as we have the hot air continually coming inside. The roof acts as a conductor and heats up to high heats by the sun. Left without reflective heat insulation, a roof could heat up to nearly 100 degrees on a hot day.

Heat reflective paint has the ability to reflect up to 85% of the suns heat. Avoiding allot of heat that normally would have been absorbed into our home. Unlike traditional wool ceiling insulation or roof insulation which only holds out the heat from the blazing hot tin, until it eventually heats up itself, heat reflective paint simply reflects the heat away

Traditional wool roof insulation often stays warm into the hot night, making the evenings as uncomfortable as the hot day, especially when it becomes muggy.

Another consideration we often have is to install roof ventilation. Common options in Australia are house ventilation whirlybirds, roof vents or vent ridges.

But the roof cavity is not what generates the heat; that comes from the hot sun on the roof.

Rather than ventilation being used in space between the ceiling and hot roof using a whirlybird,it might be more attractive to use a roof paint to give you heat reflective insulation.

Reflective paint can cool the roof top down by up to 40 degrees, and inside up to 21 degrees. This result would be much better than 2 - 3 degrees you might achieve by installing ventilation whirlybirds between the ceiling and roof.

To find heat reflective paint the web can offer many choices