Go White for a Cooler Home

[natalie]

Looking for ways & means to make your home cooler are you? Just one simple step can save all your efforts. All you need to do is to change the color of your roof to white & reduce your cooling costs by as much as 20%. This is especially effective during warm summers as you can cut down on your costs of running an AC. Not only can you paint your roofs white but also the pavement that runs across your house. White color is known to reflect huge amounts of heat back into space.

[Josh44]

Absolutely Natalie! White is known as a cool color, both in houses and cars. It's a well-known fact that dark colored cars, especially black, absorb heat instead of reflecting it. It's why the surface of a black car, in summer and not in shade, is considerable hotter than a white car.

[Vegan]

I didn't know this. Thanks for sharing this information to us. I always thought that lighter colors are hotter. Is this also true on our clothings?

[Josh44]

Yes Vegan, it is. The darker the color, the warmer it is. It is true on clothing, paint color, roof color, car color, even animal color. This is why lots of people (including myself) won't buy a black or dark blue car because they become so hot during the summer.

For a cooler house or car, choose lighter colors.

[green algae]

I always thought that painting a roof or a house in white will require much cleaning, that is why I avoid doing it. Now that you mentioned about white paint keeping the house cooler, I will definitely consider it.

[shannahana]

do you use any type of paint in particular?

[Bobsthelast]

That's why they used to use aluminum paint for the tops of mobile homes. It would reflect some of the heat and allow the interior to remain a bit cooler. There are a lot of things you can do. You can also use insulated curtains to keep things warm in the winter and reflective curtains to direct heat outward during the summer. I want to put tint on my windows too. I think that would work.

[Josh44]

I don't think they paint roofs of any type home. On mobile homes, most roofs are either sheets of tin or aluminum, or shingled like site-built homes.

[solarpowered]

That's a good idea in places where cooling the home is an issue, but you need to take into consideration the fact that you can't paint your roof with any kind of paint because at the first rain it will all go down the drain literally.