12-07-2008, 04:41 AM
Ventilate the attic space as well as insulate. Find ways to let the hot air out.
Is your roof white or a light color? A light colored roof will keep a lot of the heat out. Painting the roof white will lower the temperature of the roof by a huge amount. Take a piece of roofing the color of your roof, paint half of it white and set it out in the sun for a bit then put your hand on each half.
The roof eaves should be nice and wide to shade the walls of the house. Three feet wide is usually considered "normal" for eaves in Hawaii. Otherwise, perhaps planting Chinese banana plants will create some shade on the side of the house as well as tasty bananas, too.
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Kurt Wilson
Is your roof white or a light color? A light colored roof will keep a lot of the heat out. Painting the roof white will lower the temperature of the roof by a huge amount. Take a piece of roofing the color of your roof, paint half of it white and set it out in the sun for a bit then put your hand on each half.
The roof eaves should be nice and wide to shade the walls of the house. Three feet wide is usually considered "normal" for eaves in Hawaii. Otherwise, perhaps planting Chinese banana plants will create some shade on the side of the house as well as tasty bananas, too.
Kurt Wilson
Kurt Wilson