How to choose roof coating

Choosing to use a roof coating system over a tear-off and new roof installation is cost effective. Labor fees are minimal because several steps are eliminated allowing for a much shorter production time and landfill fees are avoided altogether. The ThermaCote roof restoration or roof maintenance systems are non-intrusive, creating minimal disruption to the building occupants during construction. This allows your business to remain open, conducting sales and business as usual. There is no need for a costly and timely roof tear-off/new roof install when you can achieve the same results with greater benefits. Less time, less cost, and a seamless membrane to solve your roofs particular issues are all gained while keeping your business operations in motion, allowing you to make money during the install. There is no easier, better choice than to restore your failing Hypalon roof with one of our roof coating systems!

White Roofs

Can light-colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change? The idea has been around for years, but now, a new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that is the first to use a global model to study the question has found that implementing cool roofs and cool pavements in cities around the world can not only help cities stay cooler, they can also cool the world, with the potential of cancelling the heating effect of up to two years of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.       

Because white roofs reflect far more of the sun’s heat than black ones, buildings with white roofs will stay cooler. If the building is air conditioned, less air conditioning will be required, thus saving energy. Even if there is no air conditioning, the heat absorbed by a black roof both heats the space below, making the space less comfortable, and is also carried into the city air by wind raising the ambient temperature in what is known as the urban heat island effect. Additionally, there’s a third, less familiar way in which a black roof heats the world: it radiates energy directly into the atmosphere, which is then absorbed by the nearest clouds and ends up trapped by the greenhouse effect, contributing to global warming.

Acrylic Roofing Systems that Work for You

A roof protects you from the elements. But what protects your roof from those same elements? If the answer is anything but an Acrylic elastomeric roof coating system, then you might be the one who ends up getting wet.

Acrylic high-performance waterborne coatings and liquid acrylic roofing systems have been perfected for more than half a century. These products provide moisture and thermal protection, ENERGY STAR®-certified efficiency, extreme durability, and cool roofing solutions on virtually any surface, for any job, and for every application.

ThermaCote Inc. has manufactured elastomeric coating systems for more than 50 years, providing proven performance from the one source for any and all of your roofing needs. Whether it’s industrial roofing, schools, commercial roofing projects, historic roof restoration, roof maintenance, roof waterproofing, repairing roof leaks, installing an ENERGY STAR® reflective roof system or any other kind of protective coating, Acrylic can provide the perfect solution for your commercial or residential roofing needs. 

                 

Types of Roof Coatings!

Roofs are expensive to maintain and even more expensive to replace. As part of an aggressive maintenance program, roof coverings applied to a roof system in relatively good condition can extend the system’s service life for many years, delaying replacement.

Coatings provide a renewable surface that protects the underlying membrane from exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light and heat, slowing the roof’s aging process. Highly reflective white coatings also significantly reduce the membrane’s temperature, which leads to improved long-term performance of the system. This lower temperature also reduces the building’s heat load, resulting in lower cooling costs for the building.

Reflective coatings can reflect 60-85 percent of solar energy. But managers should be aware that solar reflectance changes as a coating ages. A high-quality reflective coating can quickly pay for itself in energy savings. White roofs have a tendency to collect dirt, and the amount of dirt typically depends on the roof’s slope, weather conditions, rainfall, and surrounding elements.

What is Roof Coating?

A roof coat­ing is an added layer of pro­tec­tion posi­tioned on a com­pleted roof. Car­ry­ing out as a way of enhanc­ing the roof’s capa­bil­ity to con­tinue unharmed from rain, hail, wind and sun­light, roof coat­ing is fre­quently in the form of a thin mem­brane that seals the mate­ri­als used to make the roof, suc­cess­fully estab­lish a bar­rier among the ele­ments and the actual roof. When applied appro­pri­ately, a roof coat­ing can add value to the life of just about any type of roof.

What are the types of roof coating?

The major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion is well aware about the essen­tial fact that roofs are rea­son­ably exclu­sive part of their house and need appro­pri­ate care. Though, their main­te­nance is fairly costly as they have a propen­sity to spend huge money even for a lit­tle kind of repair work, that’s why peo­ple have a first choice to pro­tect them cor­rectly. They are avail­able in dif­fer­ent vari­eties that range from reflec­tive to water­proof and so on: 

Waterproof coating

As the name says– this type of spe­cific coat­ing pro­vides a layer of water-​resistant and makes the roof water­tight. If there is any escape found on the top, then a water­proof layer helps to mend that leak and make the roof flaw­less. 

Asphalt coating

This is the type, which helps the roof to aban­don water and repel the effects of being exposed to weather con­di­tions. It also helps to ward off the effects of atmos­phere. 

White covering

White coat­ings are favoured as they are reflec­tive in nature and tend to steady decrease in the house tem­per­a­ture. In that way, they are bring­ing down the cool­ing cost that may have oth­er­wise occurred. Even though lots of peo­ple stay away from white col­oured cov­er­ing as they are prone to dust but it is sim­ple to power wash the unclean areas. A sec­ond layer of white paint prob­a­bly will help you to pre­serve the pol­ish of the cov­er­ing for extended time.

Why Is Liquid EPDM (Rubber) The Best Choice?

• The Liquid version of EPDM is identical to the sheet version EPDM, but because it's a liquid you will never need to worry about seams. Also the liquid version will not chalk like sheet EPDM does after 7-8 years.
• The temperature this product can endure ranges from -40 F to over 300 F.
• Unlike any elastomeric, acrylic or urethane -- you can apply EPDM 3 times thicker.
• With only one coat needed, and no primers on most surfaces, you save product and labor costs.
• A DIY product with 25 years of success.
• We challenge you to compare any other product which will waterproof upon application that’s right a light rain directly after application will not affect the material or its performance 365 days a year.
• Accelerated aging testing has shown EPDM Liquid Coating to out-perform any elastomeric as well as urethane, performing over 3 times longer.
• Liquid EPDM rubber is good for virtually any surfaces. List of applicable uses
• EPDM liquid is very versatile and can be applied to any shape or flashing as well as verticals. The liquid conforms to any shape of roof, flashing or protrusion, vertical or horizontal.

Major Producers of Building Materials!

China is one of the major producers of building materials and ranks first in the production of ceramic tiles on a global level with Shanghai as one of the largest commercial centers for production of building materials. The country represents huge demand for wall covering products such as mosaic tiles, concrete blocks for outer wall material, roof tiles, coatings, paints, and the like. With huge untapped potential, India is an enticing market for wall covering manufacturers. India’s entry into the WTO has opened up the wallpaper market to foreign manufacturers. Demand for ceramic wall tiles is expected to show high growth in the region. Latin America displays a positive note with booming markets such as Brazil and Chile boding bright prospects for architectural coatings.

Europe and Asia-​​Pacific constitute two of the largest regional markets, as stated by the new market research report on Wall Coverings. In terms of most promising growth potential, Asia-​​Pacific, backed by China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and others is the clear winner, and forecast to expand at aCAGR of more than 3.0% through 2015.

The Interior Paints segment continues to hold sway as the single largest market. However, with changing consumer preferences, Wallpaper is forecast to make a comeback after years of suspended activity and profits, and register the fastest CAGR for the period 2007–2015. Hith­erto untapped regions such as Asia-​​Pacific, Latin Amer­ica and Mid­dle East, which have tra­di­tion­ally been strong mar­kets for inte­rior paints, dis­play huge poten­tial for future growth and expan­sion of wall­pa­pers segment.

For more details about this com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket research report, please visit –

http://www.strategyr.com/