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Ceramic Coatings
One of the biggest mysteries of how Ceramic Coating
works is found in how to explain exactly what it does
and how to quantify the results. Hopefully, you will find
the reasoning below a means to better understand and
grasp how truly incredible Ceramic Coatings are.
On a normal sunny day here in the South, from let’s say
March to October, you have available 400-450 BTU’s of
heat gain on your roof and walls per square foot, per
hour (not our numbers, but NOAA’s). For the sake of
our discussion let’s be a little conservative and cut this
down to 300 BTU’s of heat gain per square foot per
hour. Now let’s say you have 10,000 square feet of
roofing exposed to the sun...this means that on most
sunny days you have a possible BTU heat load of
approximately 3,000,000 BTUs per hour over the entire
roof. This heat gain, along with the increased ambient
summer temperatures, is the reason so many of us see
our A/C costs rise dramatically during this time of year.
Add in to this equation that everybody has a different
style roof, roof color, or a different surface.
With Ceramic Coating, it does not matter what your roof
looks like or what it is made of, Ceramic is all about
blocking the heat load before it gets to your building.
Ceramic Coating blocks the Ultraviolet Rays (long and
short wavelength)...the energy rays of the light spectrum
that generate the heat load we feel and not just the
visible light spectrum (which is what all other Low E
“white” roofs and coatings do). For example, park a
black car and a white car side by side in the sun.
Everyone expects the black car to get pretty hot, and it
does...but the white car gets nearly as hot even though
it’s white. Now park these 2 cars in the shade (where
the UV rays are greatly reduced) and then touch the
cars...they are much cooler; just a few degrees more
than the outside ambient temperature.
The specifications on Ceramic Coating say it blocks
96% of the UV Rays (about 98% of the heat load), and it
does! Again, for the sake of this reasoning we are going
conservative once again and saying that we will block
90% of the heat load on your roofs and/or walls. What
that says is that of the possible 3,000,000 BTUs per
hour that are available to heat up the surface of your
roof, only 300,000 make it through to your 10,000
square foot roof. And if we make that BTUs per square
foot...it’s only 30 BTUs instead of the 300 we started
with.
We hear constantly about the effects of a “White” roof on
your A/C costs and how this is a major means to fight
excess energy usage. However, a white roof works by
blocking the visible light spectrum, which gives you an
approximate BTU heat load reduction of about 22-
25%...not the 90% Ceramic Coatings offers! Plus, a
white roof only works if it is clean, which means you
must pressure wash it for it to remain effective. Ceramic
Coatings, since it works on the UV Rays, is not bothered
by dirt build up or grime. In fact, ceramic Coatings come
in a few different colors if you need it and is mostly
unaffected by color content (think about the colors
available on metal roofs now and the current heat load
they see daily).
This means that if your roof is Metal, EPDM, TPO,
Modified Bitumen, Hypalon, Slate, etc... it doesn’t
matter! Because with Ceramic Coating there is no heat
load to worry about...nor is insulation under the roof/wall
surface a necessary item. If there is no heat load…?
Also, because we are Ceramic, we not only have
Radiant heat reflective properties, we are also a
Conductive and Convective insulator. So on those cold
winter days where its 40 degrees outside, with wind and
rain, Ceramic Coatings are working to block the heat
from leaving your building! A full 24/7/365’s worth of
protection for your building.
207 Ranch Trail., Rockwall, TX 75032
Serving Rockwall, Garland, Dallas and all the
surrounding areas since 1926!