{"id":118706,"date":"2015-08-26T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=6bde09951858b9cb787ef2c0c6537b40"},"modified":"2015-08-26T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T17:56:57","slug":"the-best-way-to-keep-your-attic-cooler-is-to-change-your-roof-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-best-way-to-keep-your-attic-cooler-is-to-change-your-roof-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way to Keep Your Attic Cooler is to Change Your Roof Color"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Reflective roofing, unlike powered attic ventilators, addresses the problem where it begins        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/best-way-keep-your-attic-cooler-change-your-roof-color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hot-dark-roof-infrared-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thermographic image of a hot dark roof\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/best-way-keep-your-attic-cooler-change-your-roof-color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/cool-roof-4.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"White vs black shingles\" width=\"144\" height=\"124\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/best-way-keep-your-attic-cooler-change-your-roof-color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/cool-roof-2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dark vs light roof on same house\" width=\"144\" height=\"87\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/best-way-keep-your-attic-cooler-change-your-roof-color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/cool-roof-3.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Change from white to dark roofing\" width=\"144\" height=\"86\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/best-way-keep-your-attic-cooler-change-your-roof-color\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/cool-roof-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Attic temperatures for different roof types\" width=\"144\" height=\"140\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The most contentious issue I&rsquo;ve written about since I started blogging isn&rsquo;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/25796\/Got-Manual-J-Don-t-Assume-It-s-Correct\">bad Manual Js<\/a>. Nor is it endorsing government intervention by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/should-doe-increase-furnace-efficiency-standards\">raising efficiency standards<\/a> or improving energy codes. Incredibly, it&rsquo;s not even whether or not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/48800\/Naked-People-Need-Building-Science\">naked people need building science<\/a>. Nope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/best-way-keep-your-attic-cooler-change-your-roof-color\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2721,12449,9515,4491,13460],"class_list":["post-118706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-air-conditioning","tag-attic","tag-reflective-roof","tag-roof","tag-solar-heat-gain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}