Change the Color of Your Roof – Save on Your Electric Bill

Submitted by georgiana on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 03:40.

Here's an interesting article from the MSN site. It gives some intriguing statistics about the effects of changing your roof to a lighter shade and explains how it saves on electric and damage to the earth.

A 2004 report that looked at more than 25 articles about the cooling energy used by buildings with cool roofs found the energy savings ranged from 2% to more than 40%; the average savings was about 20%.

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"A worldwide installation of white roofs on low-sloped and colored roofs on sloped roofs in hot and temperate cities of the world will offset the emissions of all the cars in the world for the next 10 to 12 years," Akbari says.

My oldest son repainted his ex-roommate's roof, who keeps it silver to cut down on electric use. He said it took less than five gallons of paint and wasn't that much work. Something to look into?

http://realestate.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=24053715&page=1&GT1...