{"id":156,"date":"2013-05-22T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2014-06-19T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T01:13:09","slug":"r-matte-plus-3-sun-reflector-solution-for-cooling-hot-2nd-floor-in-summer-flat-roof-home-in-dallas-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/r-matte-plus-3-sun-reflector-solution-for-cooling-hot-2nd-floor-in-summer-flat-roof-home-in-dallas-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"R Matte Plus 3 Sun reflector solution for cooling hot 2nd floor in summer. Flat roof home in Dallas Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">Many N. Texas homes like mine have &#8220;attic&#8221; type 2nd floors. Commonly known as a &#8220;1 1\/2 story,&#8221; The 2nd level is fully finished out with 3 bedrooms and 1 bath. \u00a0But the tax rolls define it as a 1 story house.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">\u00a0The 2nd story has a 7.5&#8242; ceiling. \u00a0The 2nd level roof \u00a0is flat and has a tiny attic space. Since the entire house is cooled by a single 5-ton air conditioner, \u00a0the 2nd floor gets uncomfortably warmer in summer, and the AC runs less effeciently.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">2 summers ago, I purchased 18 sheets of\u00a0<b>R Matte Plus 3<\/b>\u00a0aluminum-sided foam sheathing from Home Depot, for about $8 a sheet. \u00a0I placed them shiny side up on the flat portion of the roof. The panels are weighed down with strategically placed bricks. In the fall, I stack the panels up in the center of the roof, cover them in a tarp, and weigh the stack down with the bricks. To deploy or stack the sheets takes only about an hour.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='625' height='382' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5h6p0M3T2nQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know the panels may well blow off in very high winds, but the home is in a valley and surrounded by high trees, so the odds are with the panels. This scheme has reduced my home cooling costs considerably, and has equalized the upstairs temperature to the downstairs in summertime. I wish I had started doing it 20 years ago!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many N. Texas homes like mine have &#8220;attic&#8221; type 2nd floors. Commonly known as a &#8220;1 1\/2 story,&#8221; The 2nd level is fully finished out with 3 bedrooms and 1 bath. \u00a0But the tax rolls define it as a 1 story house. \u00a0The 2nd story has a 7.5&#8242; ceiling. \u00a0The 2nd level roof \u00a0is flat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}