Soaker Hose Roof Cooling

Contact your local fire marshal for advice.

Soaker hose roof cooling.

The hoses are connected to a sprinkler timer and come on six times during the hottest part of the day. Sure yukkuri the author took conventional lawn sprayers to the edges of his roof on the gutters. Our houses are about the same size but his. 1 gallon of water consumes 8000 btu as it evaporates.

Ours is installed at the peak of the roof and draining to both sides metal roof no. Use a soak n spray hose it puts out lots of very small streams down the length of the hose. Firesafe marin recommends that you replace any wood shake roof with a fire sesistant type a roof assembly but until that happens your house is the rare case a sprinkler might be helpful. Yes the soaker hose will help cool your roof and your home because the evaporation will use up some of that excess heat.

Cooling with liquid water running off from a sprinkler is not efficient but evaporative cooling from a small amount of water like a periodic sprinkle is very efficient. Coming from the faucet it goes into a coil of plastic pipe in a tub with misters spraying the coil. The water that then goes up to the roof is cooler than it was coming out of the faucet. We live outside of yuma az the feed water is pretty warm to start with.

We have soaker hose on our flat roof. He put them to a timer. Likewise don t climb up on your roof with a garden hose. They can also be hooked up to a thermostat which causes them to spray when the roof surface is hot enough to warrant evaporative cooling.

I would assume this would work in any climate where your roof got hot enough.