Roof Cooling Granules

An impact resistant shingle installed on a home in a hail zone.

Roof cooling granules.

Use reflective mineral granules or a factory applied coating rather than a dark coating on a mineral surfaced sheet. Thanks to modern reflective technology you can join the green revolution with timberline cs shingles. They are designed with special granules that make them more reflective than standard. Our highly reflective shingles can help to reduce temperatures in your attic so your home will stay cooler in the summer to help save on air conditioning costs.

Wide arrange of colors save energy and look great at the same time. These shingles are specially designed with solar reflecting granules to help decrease the amount of heat transferred into a home. Extend the life of the roof thanks to solar reflecting granules that reduce shingle temperature and subsequently slow asphalt aging. The cool roof collection shingles are specially designed to reflect the sun s rays helping to make your home more comfortable and energy efficient.

Apply a cool coating directly on top of a dark asphaltic emulsion coating. Benefits of mineral shield roofing granules include. Energy star qualified shingles come in a variety of colors including dark colors even dark browns and grays. The cool roof collection has a variety of deep colors that are unexpected of solar reflective shingles which tend to be lighter in color.

Applying 3m science to our innovative roofing granules we offer sustainable solutions to homeowners manufactures and contractors. Substitute reflective marble chips or gray slag for dark gravel in a flood coat of asphalt. These granules are used in shingles that can be energy efficient solar reflective and economically friendly. Their solar reflective nature allows the granules to reflect sunlight and heat that other shingles would typically absorb.

1 according to the cool roof rating council cool roofs may save homeowners an average of 7 15 on their total cooling. Our specialty granules offer unique performance features for asphalt shingles stone coated metal and low slope cap sheets can reduce the urban heat island effect and pollution in smog ridden cities. Depending on your location choosing a specialty shingle can even reduce your insurance costs e g. Contains a uv blocker that protects against damaging sunlight improving the durability of the membranes and the system color lock ceramic firing helps maintain the true shingle color weather resistant and designed to meet industry and code requirements.