How to Avoid Sunburn by Maintaining the Cooling Effects of Your Roof:

There are many ways to escape from sunny weather in your home or industrial buildings. Here we provide some basic things for you to consider.

Singapore's weather being more hotter on day-by-day.

The summer sun directly hits our roofs and consequently, warms up the conditions even more and radiates that into the homes which are nearer to the roofs. This leads to a lot of heat in the upper floors of the building, and we become uncomfortable, cannot stay inside the building.

They use more electricity as the indoor temperatures rise to increase the use of air conditioning thus incurring a higher cost; and more discomfort particularly in the kitchen and other rooms which may not be air conditioned. Here are some practical tips to cool the owner’s mood, or at least lower it a bit for some time on the roof.

1. Singapore advises to grow a roof garden (With proper guidance..)

The best ways to prevent the heat from dellevering on the roof are by coming up with your own rooftop garden of potted plants or green grass and any other form of plant that can bear the weight of the roof. Whilst the soil in flower pots and the lawn takes most of the heat that incidents the roof and affects our interior living space, the plants shield the establishment from direct sun.

Ensure that there is good waterproofing of the roof ensure that there is no risk of water penetrating through the roof slab or the exterior walls when adopting a roof garden project.

2. Cooling Paint methods

If the cooling or reflecting paint is used to paint the concrete floor or if white ceramic or porcelain tiles are used as material on the roof, then the heat input can be greatly reduced. These special paints functions to produce reflection of the sunlight in order to achieve proper insulation by having a cooler living environment.

This is one of the cheapest technique, in which white lime wash is applied on the floors ensures the roof is cool all summer. However, there is a disadvantage with lime wash; it fades away during summer and has to be re-applied annually/monsoon washes it away.

3. Add roof shades

The roof slabs are made of concrete, which is a very dense material – it retains heat for a very long time and then transfers it to the indoors. The temperatures can be controlled by creating shade on the rooftop because shaded areas are cooler than the surroundings.

4. Go for heat-resistant flooring

Go for flooring materials such as wooden deck tiles or terracotta tiles that do not absorb or transfer as much heat to the lower floors and are comfortable to walk on even during the peak summers.