Why recommend cool roofing to your customers?

Indoor Comfort

A hot roof acts like a radiator, increasing temperatures within and around the building, contributing to the “heat island” effect. Even when heavily insulated, flat and low-slope black roofs heat up to 170°F on a 95°F day, staying as much as 50 degrees hotter than ambient air temperatures even after dark. Indoors, elevated temperatures increase discomfort and risks to health while they put a greater burden on air conditioning systems.

 

Longer Roof Life

According to the Roof Coating Manufacturers Association, high temperatures can shorten the life of rubber, synthetic polymer, and especially asphalt roofing systems. The rate of degradation begins to accelerate even at a “modestly elevated” 140°F, causing “significant damage” and affecting both short- and long-term performance. Their rule of thumb for thermal aging is that service life is cut in half for every 18°F increase in temperature. Cool roof technology utilizing elastomeric coatings greatly reduces heat build-up where it starts.

 

Longer Lasting Protection

Elastomeric coatings from Conklin create a lasting white barrier to protect against bleed-through, especially important for asphalt roofing that sometimes migrates from the substrate to “bleed through” a traditional white coating.

 

Bolster Adhesion to Asphalt and Modified Bitumen

Before they have weathered, fresh asphalt and modified bitumen roofing materials normally repel an aqueous coating, making it difficult for the coating to stick to them. Conkin coatings provide excellent adherence to asphalt and modified bitumen surfaces, plus a high degree of bleed-through resistance.

 

Well Suited for EPDM

EPDM is an excellent roofing membrane: it’s extremely durable and waterproof, and it can withstand intense heat far better than asphalt materials. Its main drawback is that it is a black roofing material, making it an intrinsically “hot” roof. A white Conklin elastomeric roof coating would really round out EPDM’s benefits.

 

Please watch below to learn more about adding energy efficient, faster-to-install, higher profit Conklin cool roofing systems to your roofing company's service offerings:



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The Conklin Company provides innovative roofing systems for a wide variety of roofing applications, including metal roof renovation, single-ply recoat, fabric reinforced, polyurethane foam and EPDM coating systems. Conklin’s roofing systems are VOC compliant, lightweight, easy to maintain, and EPA Energy Star Rated.

Conklin is the nation’s #1 acrylic coating company by volume, offering low overhead and high profitability, 30 years of proven labor-saving applications, regional and national training programs, and low start-up costs.

Conklin Roofing Systems have been applied to over 2 billion square feet of roofing throughout the United States since 1977. We were the first manufacturer of acrylic roof coatings, which protect investments from the weather and provide energy efficiency. Our top products have met or exceeded the strictest standards for fire rating and code approvals.

For more information, please contact Randy Patton at (309) 303-3128, via email at rpatton55@comcast.net or visit WhiteRoofingSystems.com to learn more.