Energy Saving Roofs
Energy Saving Tips
Roofer of Las Vegas provides you with a variety of roofing styles and techniques to choose from, both for commercial and residential roofing. We provide roofing solutions by suggesting roofs that are energy-saving, cost-effective and are in adherence to the climatic conditions of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, being situated in an arid desert, generally experiences a hot and dry climate in summer and is pleasant in winter, at times frequented by torrential rains causing flash floods. Las Vegas is 2,030 ft above sea level and is surrounded by dry mountain ranges. The city is mostly sunny throughput the year with hardly any rainfall. Temperatures in the summer months can go up to 40◦C in the morning and about 21◦C at night. Winters temperatures are around 15-16◦C. Las Vegas hardly gets any snow.
In the hot and dry climate of Las Vegas you will prefer your home to be cool. Air-conditioners and coolers are a solution but you cannot completely rely on them for the entire summers as keeping your coolers on 24/7 will raise your electricity bills alarmingly. Thus, ideal roofing will provide the perfect solution for saving energy. We, the Roofers of Las Vegas, provide you with energy saving tips while choosing your roof. Las Vegas roofers will advice you to have a light-colored roof. Light-colored roofs are built with light-colored tiles. White and light-colored roofs act as high solar reflectants. This means they reflect heat instead of absorbing them and thus help keep your home or commercial establishment naturally cool. Apart from coloring your roof white or any light color, another energy-saving tip is to use galvanized sheeting on your roofs to prevent heat. Cool roofs are not just energy-saving but they improve roof durability and reduce building cooling loads. Apart from attic insulations, these cool roofs are the best kind of roofs you can have in Las Vegas. Cool roofs are the best ways to handle global warming by solar radiation management as it prevents your home and office from getting heated up and also radiates the harmful infra-red radiation away from our planet. Apart from cool roofs, the green roofs are also a great way to conserve energy. Green roofs have an insulation layer made of gravel, clay, or plastic that soak in water and keeps the building cool.
Roofers of Las Vegas advices you against having dark colored roofs in their endeavor to conserve energy. Dark colored roofs will absorb more heat especially if the building covers a large area and you will need to use air conditioners more frequently. This will increase your electricity bills to a great extent as well as cause more air pollution. Dark colored roofs will also not reflect back the harmful infra-red rays of the sun from the surface of the earth. Thus the best energy saving tip is to have roofs with white reflective membranes, metal roofing, coated roofs and planted or green roofs which the roofers of Las Vegas are experts in building. This will reduce heat generation, getting your electricity bill down by 15%-20%, improve the longevity of the roof, reduce air pollution and green house gas emissions and conserve energy.
