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Date:         Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:52:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cool roof paint on material for vanagon camper tops?
Comments: To: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
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If you folks are speaking literally of "cool roof" coatings, we spent summer of 2011 redoing our 1928 townhouse metal roof with Hydro-Stop by Quest Building Products.  You can Google it for specs, but I can tell you that in August in Virginia at the worst time of the day you can walk barefoot on a metal roof coated with that stuff and the old silver roof paint or bare metal would burn your skin if you tried the same thing.


Attic temps were similarly affected.  Whereas we could barely breathe in the attic on a day like that before the coating, after the HS job the temp never exceeded 94F.  I think the reflectivity is 92%.


This might not be what you want on your Vanagon roof but it just might work to cool things down.
Stephen


--- On Fri, 6/14/13, JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cool roof paint on material for vanagon camper tops?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, June 14, 2013, 1:56 PM


I've wondered this myself. I'm in Alabama and the summer sun - as well
as ambient temps - can be pretty intense. Van sitting in the sun gets
plenty hot inside. The new ceramic tints help plenty - but the noonday
sun beating down on the old Tintop heats it up like a solar oven.It
needs new paint on top - and I was wondering about a more reflective
cooler and paint type for aiding and abetting cooling.


What say, Volks?


John


On 6/14/2013 10:16 AM, Kevin P. Gilleran wrote:
> Hi all,
> What is the general consensus for those of us who live and work in the hot
> areas of the country on painting the top of the vanagon with a reflective
> white paint to keep the inside a little cooler? Has anyone done this
> successfully and if so what material was used?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kevin
>
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