How to Cool Down Your Roof

By Cass Jacoby. 

Imper-Sol™ AC Premium Roof Coatings are the ultimate fluid applied roof preservation solutions. 

Bitec has a magic power. They can transform dark-colored, energy-absorbing roofs into bright-colored roofs that reflect the sun’s rays, lowering energy costs and increasing the life cycle of the roof system. How? With their Imper-Sol AC Premium roof coating.  

Cool roofs are growing in popularity every year, with many cities offering incentives and adopting these reflective roofs as a way to reduce city heat (otherwise known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect) as they bounce the heat of the sun off the roof. 

Imper-Sol AC Premium is a CRRC-rated white acrylic roof coating, that works to significantly reduce roof temperatures. This elastomeric coating is water-based, made of pure acrylic, self-curing latex polymers. The coating features a unique bleed-blocking quality that eliminates the need for a coating primer.  

Once cured, this coating protects and preserves the roof surface, providing excellent waterproofing, UV resistance, and most importantly, reduces under roof temperatures for greater building efficiency. Imper-Sol AC Premium meets Title 24 requirements, providing a cost-effective and sustainable solution that meets rising building standards. 

Read more about  Imper-Sol AC Premium Roof Coatings. 

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About Bitec 

Bitec, Inc.™ is a leading manufacturer and distributor of some of the industry’s highest-quality APP and SBS modified bitumen membranes. Since its founding in 1986, Bitec has remained committed to providing its customers with only the most innovative and highest-quality modified bitumen products. 

BITEC, Inc. offers a full line of modified bitumen waterproofing and roofing membranes suited for most commercial and industrial applications. BITEC membranes offer the contractor both conventional and current methods of application, and are available in either smooth surface or mineral surface in a variety of colors. 

About Cass  

Cass works as a reporter/writer for RoofersCoffeeShop, AskARoofer and MetalCoffeeShop. When she isn’t writing about roofs, she is putting her Master degree to work writing about movies and dancing with her plants.