[Greenbuilding] Paint a tar roof?

John Salmen terrain at shaw.ca
Sun Jun 7 15:07:42 CDT 2015


Would work but all finishes are sacrificial and most paint doesn’t wear all that well in direct exposure so will wear away eventually and guess where that water/paint goes. Why not just a white tarp in the summer.

 

From: Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Pratt
Sent: June-07-15 12:03 PM
To: Green Building
Subject: [Greenbuilding] Paint a tar roof?

 

My garage has an almost flat black tar roof. It gets really hot in the summer, but I need to work in there, I know I can buy a silver coating and there is a white coating (but it says it won't work where the water puddles),  What about painting it? Would regular oil based or water based paint work? I believe I can get free paint at the recycling center. 

Anyone tried it? I googled it and haven't found much.  It looks like the paint that accidentally spilled on the roof is holding up just fine...

Ben


 

b e n j a m i n p r a t t


professor art+design

the university of wisconsin stout

 

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:

So this is neat, and seems like something all y'all maybe interested in:

 

New natural wood fungicide that can be used safely on the inside of buildings. 

More at the Forest Products Lab web site:

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/labnotes/?p=24802

 

 

Erin Rasmussen

 

TR Miles Technical Consultants Inc.   http://www.trmiles.com/

and BioEnergy Discussion Lists   http://www.bioenergylists.org/

erin at trmiles.com

 

 


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