We at Native Roofing understand that Florida’s climate is hot and sometimes unbearable. Keeping your home cool and comfortable is a priority for homeowners who want to get through the summer months without breaking the bank. One way to keep your home cool and protected from the Florida elements is by insulating your roof.

Insulation is the process of installing a material that helps to prevent heat from escaping or entering a home. It works by reducing the amount of heat transfer between the outside and inside of your home, which can help improve the energy efficiency of your property. Insulating your roof can help to reduce your cooling costs by as much as 25%, making it an investment worth considering.

Insulating your roof offers a host of benefits, including:

1. Reduced energy bills: By creating a thermal barrier, insulation reduces energy waste. Insulating a roof can help lower your cooling costs due to improved energy efficiency, ultimately reducing your energy bills.
2. Keeps your home cooler: Insulating your roof helps keep your home cooler by preventing heat from entering your property. During hot weather, insulation prevents excessive heat from infiltrating your home, keeping it cooler and reducing the workload of the air conditioning.
3. Protects your roof: Insulating your roof can help protect it from the harsh South Florida elements, including storms and extreme temperatures. Insulation helps prevent water from seeping into your roof, reducing the risk of leaks and water damage. It also helps secure your roof by making it more resistant to wind uplift.
4. Improved indoor air quality: Insulating your roof can also help to improve the quality of indoor air by preventing dust, mold, and other allergens from entering your home.
5. Increases property value: Lastly, a well-insulated home is more attractive to potential buyers and can increase your home’s resale value.

At Native Roofing, we understand that insulation is essential when it comes to keeping your home cool and protected from the Florida elements. Proper insulation involves a multi-layer approach that is designed to prevent heat transfer while ensuring proper ventilation. We use Tapered Insulation Roof Systems to give homeowners, business owners, and property managers the best insulation has to offer. Tapered insulation systems are an integral part of roof system design and can help reduce or eliminate the amount of ponding water on the roof when the roof deck does not provide an adequate slope to drain. The popularity of tapered insulation has grown as more designers and roofing professionals understand the importance of positive drainage in good roofing practices.

Why Tapered Insulation Roof Systems?

1. Ideal for low-slope roofs, preventing ponding water: The primary and most important function of a roof membrane in a low-slope roof system is to provide weatherproofing by keeping the rainwater from entering the roof assembly. Ponding water poses the greatest risk to a roof membrane since it not only shortens its service life but can lead to more serious life safety concerns when loads and deflections exceed the designed conditions. This could lead to a roof collapse. From an aesthetics standpoint, areas on roofs with a prevalence for ponding are susceptible to unsightly bacterial and algae growth as well as accumulation of dirt.
2. Manage rainwater timely and effectively: Given the large footprint of low-slope roofs on typical commercial buildings, managing rainwater timely and effectively is an important design consideration in new roof design as well as roof replacements on existing buildings.
3. Often meets building code requirements: In addition, the model building codes include requirements for minimum drainage slope and identify ponding instability as a design consideration for rain loads.

Additional Benefits of Tapered Roof Insulation Systems: Because of their wide use in low-slope roofing applications, tapered polyiso insulation systems offer a number of benefits in addition to providing positive drainage: high R-value, versatility, and customization to accommodate project-by-project complexity as well as ease of installation.

In conclusion, if you are considering insulating your roof, the answer is yes! Investing in proper insulation can help reduce your energy bills, keep your home cooler, protect your roof, and improve indoor air quality. If you have any questions about roof insulation, please contact us at Native Roofing, and we will be more than happy to help.

Contact us at Broward (954) 236-9986 or Palm Beach (561) 469-7930.