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Heat reflective paints can reduce the internal temperatures of industrial and commercial buildings by as much as 17 degrees. If your workspace is hot and humid a reflective coating to the roof can go a long way to make it a comfortable place to be again.

For many businesses hot conditions are detrimental to productivity and profits. In hot conditions staff do not work to the same levels they would normally. Over time, staff retention levels drop as well in these conditions. Absenteeism increases and morale will generally drop.

Hot temperatures can also pose a danger to equipment. Overheat can cause machinery to jam or even permanently break. This can cost your business time and money. Stock is also put in danger in buildings which are not properly insulated from the sun. Every year millions of dollars worth of stock is lost because of a lack of climate control.

The biggest contributor to inside temperature in is fact roof temperature. Over the course of a hot day, the building material roofs and external walls are made of absorbs heat. This heat has nowhere to go except inside the building, increasing the internal temperature. While air conditioning and other cooling systems work hard to cool the air inside, heat cooling paints work by stopping the warming conditions at their source.

These paints can reflect as much as 95% of the sun’s radiation. Instead of the heat being trapped within the building it is reflected back into the atmosphere. Independent research has shown that this paint can reduce the internal temperature by a staggering 47%.

One of the financial benefits of reflective paints is that there is no ongoing costs or maintenance. When compared to the high costs of cooling like air conditioning this makes it an economical solution indeed. Cooling paint can reduce air conditioning costs by as much as 61%. Products that do not contain ceramics will have a long lifetime, many coming with a ten year guarantee.

There are many other application for this paint, in the right circumstances applying a reflective coating to external walls can also make a difference to internal temperatures. In the past these coatings have also been used on storage containers, roads and on domestic houses as well.

Around Australia and in fact the world, many businesses are using heat reflecting coatings to protect their buildings, improve their working conditions and reduce costs. This paint has been trialled to success all around the globe. From the deserts of Africa to the relentless summer of Saudi Arabia, the hotter the conditions are the better it works.