Summer has officially arrived, and we here at Carlton Hobbs are celebrating
by painting a heat reflective white roof coating onto the roof of our
gallery space at 60 East 93rd Street.
Why white? An informative article in the New York Times about the White Roof
Movement drew our attention to the benefits of having a "cool" roof. The
article details a family's amazement when their home's interior temperature
dropped from 115 degrees to 80 degrees farenheit inside after treating their
roof with a white covering. If energy bill savings aren't enough of a
deterrent, the article goes on to state, then think about global warming: in
the interest of slowing its effects, even Nobel Prize Winner and current
Energy Secretary Steven Chu made a bid on television to convince audiences
to "make it [roofs] white." An asphalt roof in New York City, it is
revealed, can reach a staggering 180 degrees farenheit! At Carlton Hobbs, we
hope that by investing in a white, energy efficient rooftop, we can do our
part to make our urban environment a little cooler and to do our part to
consume less energy. Lots of time and energy went into the selection of
covering and painting the layers on our first rooftop, pictured below, and
we will spend the next few weeks covering the remaining roof spaces.
With something as simple as just repainting a roof, we hope that we can
become part of a growing commitment of people to energy conservation and
heat reduction in New York City, and the world.
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..it's because white really looks cool, too. Compared to dark colors, white looks refreshing to the eyes, especially during summers. If every roof were colored white, we wouldn't feel too hot in the summer. LOL!
ReplyDelete>Rodney Orton