Top floor bakes
Heat arrives as maintenance tickets, window units in the hallway and a lease nobody renews.
For building and apartment owners
Your roof is either an asset or a cost center.
Nobody calls about paint. They call because the top floor is hot and the AC never shuts off.
Primary pressurePeak load
Owner riskComplaints
Evidence fileUnder test
Side benefitSound
Start where the money leaks
The roof cooks at noon and the phone rings at three.
Put a white lid on it
A ceramic coat sends most of the sunlight back up before the deck ever holds it.
0.88initial solar reflectance
Roof stays, tear-off waits
If the deck is sound you restore it, and if it is not the file says so before anyone sells you a bucket.
Energy logic
Lower the load before it reaches the units.
Reflectance keeps the sun off the deck. Emittance lets go of the heat that got in anyway.
Published radiative split
0.88Reflected away
0.12Absorbed residual
0.89Emittance, releases the residual
Producer-published values. Match the stocked formula and batch before quoting a roof.
Published coating values are not a guaranteed utility-bill result
Your chiller is fighting a parking lot in the sky.
EPA research on the cool-roof category reports 11 to 27 percent lower peak cooling demand. That is the category, not a number we will put on your building.
What the file has to prove
The roof file is what you hand the lender, the insurer and the buyer.
01
Energy position
Published reflectance and emittance, your roof area, and photos before and after.
Gate
Class A evidence gate
Fire language stays out of your file until ASTM E84 comes back and the assembly matches.
03
Sound
Rain lands softer on a ceramic coat, which is a nice side effect and not soundproofing.
04
Wall and stucco scope
Roof Coat for the deck, Wall Coat for the walls, Marina and Stucco Coat where people walk.
Nothing goes in your file we cannot show you.
Roof Coat runs $445 a five-gallon bucket, down to $370 each on a pallet, plus ground shipping by region. Managed installation is quoted from the measured roof.
Cool the roof before the tenants call.Building owner promises: Cool the roof before the tenants call.. No Class A shortcut. Product, assembly, report.. Walls and stucco can ride with the roof order.. A measured file beats a coating pitch.
Vertical surfaces: see the wall system. Portfolio manufactured-home communities: start with the park owner program.