My house is hot in the southern United States. Trying to add insulation in the attic space during the summer almost killed me last year. The attic was so unbelievably hot. I have developed a roof leak and was thinking about a metal roof on top of my current roof. I was wondering why a metal roof can’t be installed on braces a few inches above an existing roof to function as a roof and shade. The airflow between the two would have to cool the attic, much better than if the heat radiated through straight to the shingles and plywood. We bought a sunshade for our back patio, and I’ve thought about even something as simple as that over smaller homes could drastically help.
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they have shade sails at playgrounds over the kids play equipment. Most houses are too big to have one of those.
But where I think this idea would have real value is in cars.
If we have windscreen wipers for rain and snow tires for snow, why don’t cars also come with a built-in shiny thing they can put over themselves while parked outside in summer. That’s a luxury feature people would really value in some climates.
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