{"id":271,"date":"2015-02-11T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:56:17","slug":"rustyroof","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/shelter\/rustyroof","title":{"rendered":"Staying Cool Under a Rusty Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in a hot climate and have a metal roof but are not fortunate enough to have one that&#8217;s painted white, here&#8217;s a procedure that may allow you to rescue some comfort (and save some money too). Basically, you&#8217;re going to prime that rusty roof and then paint it white.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wait until after a nice heavy rain in the wintertime. The rain will wash your roof relatively clean of trash, and the cool weather will make it more pleasant to be on the roof.<\/li>\n<li>Be careful! A friend of ours broke his back trying to work on his own roof. Be sure you&#8217;re well protected from falling at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> times.<\/li>\n<li>Hit the roof surface lightly with Grade 0 or 1 (medium) steel wool. You&#8217;re not going for pristine, just smoothing out the rough edges. Rinse it, and let it dry completely.<\/li>\n<li>Apply a good heavy cut of Rust-Oleum Rusty Metal Primer.<\/li>\n<li>Now you&#8217;re ready for at least two and more likely three coats of Kool Seal White Elastomeric Roof Coating 63-600 or, for a tad less money, 63-300. Make sure you protect your eyes after the first coat. You&#8217;re using this paint because it reflects the sun, and it really works!<\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;re finished, you should notice the difference on the first warm day. We haven&#8217;t measured it, but we&#8217;ve been told that this procedure can lower the temperature of your roof on a hot day by as much as 50-60 degrees F.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in a hot climate and have a metal roof but are not fortunate enough to have one that&#8217;s painted white, here&#8217;s a procedure that may allow you to rescue some comfort (and save some money too). Basically, you&#8217;re going to prime that rusty roof and then paint it white. Wait until after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/shelter\/rustyroof\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Staying Cool Under a Rusty Roof&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":252,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/272"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}