Wolfgang provides another example of successfully using hydrated lime as a highly reflective roof covering to pull down attic temperatures make the house more comfortable and reduce air conditioning costs.
Lime coating on roof.
Unlike green roofs which can require considerable infrastructure to support and maintain cool roofs can be achieved with a painted on coating to an already existing roof.
Modern versions often call for a simple dilution of latex paint.
Known simply as cool roofing this process is designed to reduce the solar radiation.
A leakproof surface cooling effect.
Greenhouse whitewash is traditionally made by hydrating lime for a white paint.
In 2017 more than 3 000 city rooftops were painted using both white lime and a special reflective coating.
Somewhere else on these forums there is a suggestion of using a thin layer of lime on an asphalt shingle roof.
Traditionally surkhi a mix of brick bat lime maravajra natural adhesive and antvalakai gum fruit was used as weather proof layer to protect the roof from getting heated.
Hydrated lime as a highly reflective roof coating for home cooling.
Rainwater is generally acid.
This keeps asphalt gunk out of harvested water cools the house and is cheap.
Made with advanced technology shell lime based coolgrit granules along with aerogel composite it has the power to lower surface temperature by up to 20.
He provides quite a bit of detail on 1 how he arrived at hydrated lime as the coating to use 2 applying the lime to the roof and 3 quite a bit of actual performance data on how much the attic temperature dropped and.
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Whitewash is generally applied to the outside of the greenhouse.
Precipitation tends to gradually wear away at the sunblock over the course of the summer months.