Low and Steep Sloped Roofs

Metal Roofs are available with natural metallic finishes, oven-baked paint finishes, or granular coated surfaces. Usually, unpainted metals are good solar reflectors but poor thermal emitters so they rarely satisfy low slope cool roof requirements, though some may still have a high enough SRI to count as a cool roof. Paint applied at the factory or in the field can increase a metal roof’s solar reflectance and thermal emittance, allowing it to achieve cool roof status. Alternatively, cool reflective coatings can be applied as with low sloped metal roofs.