Roofs and walls.They will not go under it.
On the worst afternoons the shade sits half empty and the herd crowds the open edges.
Cool Barn / barns, coops and shade structures
Take the fur out of furnace.
A bare metal roof is not shade. It is a hot plate over your animals.
Cool Barn: Roofs and walls.. 0.88 published. 0.74 at three years.. No degrees we did not measure.. Five-gallon buckets. Roll it yourself.
The short version
They are standing at the fence for a reason.
Change the surface.
Coat the roof and the walls that face the sun. The metal stops taking the heat on.
0.88solar reflectance
Your number, not ours.
We read the surface before and after, and you keep the record.
0.74reflectance at 3 years
Same structure. Same hour.
One panel is cooking. The other one is not.
Your west wall is a stovetopat five o’clock.
Roof is worst at noon. The wall facing the sunset is worst at five — when the day has already stacked up inside.
Walls are a separate decision
Nobody coats the wall.
It gets quoted as a roof job, so the surface doing the late damage never gets touched.
Coat what faces the sun.
We pick surfaces by orientation, not by the size of the invoice.
One crew, one trip.
Roof and walls together beats mobilising twice.
What gets coated
If it is metal and it is over something you care about.
Shade structures
Pipe and panel over a paddock. Both faces in the sun.
Lean-to sheds
Roof at noon, closed wall at five. Two problems, one building.
Barns
Metal roof, metal walls. The west side is the one that hurts.
Coops and runs
Most hot surface, least air. First to climb, cheapest to fix.
Loafing sheds
They choose whether to go in. August is the test.
Feed and tank covers
Anything metal shading something you want kept cool.
Start with the coop.
Smallest building, biggest swing, cheapest test. Watch what a coated panel does on your own place before you commit the barn.
Before you ask anyone else for a number
What we will say. What we will not.
published
The three numbers we stand behind
0.88 solar reflectance. 0.89 emittance. 0.74 still reading at three years. Lab-measured properties of the coating — the only performance figures on this page.
never
No degrees. No lay rate. No dollars.
What a panel reaches depends on your metal, its colour, the wind and the hour. Anyone quoting a number for a barn they have never stood in is guessing.
specify
Galvanised gets its own prep
New, weathered and previously painted metal are three different starting surfaces. Getting that wrong is how coatings fail on farm buildings.
Shade that actually shades.
Send the buildings and which way they face. You get back which surfaces are worth doing, what they take in gallons, and whether this is worth doing at all.
Short answers
What farm people actually ask.
- Son Shield, specified for farm buildings. Same ceramic coating, same published figures — on barn roofs, walls, coops and shade structures.
- Shade blocks the sun. It does not stop hot metal radiating down. That is why they crowd the edges instead of standing in the middle.
- Depends which way it faces. Roof is worst at noon, a west wall at five. We coat what is in sun when it matters.
- We will not guess. We measure your structure before and after, and the number is yours.
- Heat stress is well documented. Putting a number on your herd is not ours to do — this changes one surface, and that surface is working against you.
- Water-based, applied outside, cured before they go back under. Ask for the safety data sheet and we will send it.
- Yes. Five-gallon buckets, a hardware-store roller, and the written application guide at /guide. A coop roof is an afternoon.
- $445 a five-gallon bucket, $370 each on a pallet of ten, plus ground shipping by region. Gallons follow the measured structure — about 32 sq ft per gallon on flat, 75 on sloped, across two to three coats.