Soaker Hose Roof Cooling

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

Soaker hose roof cooling. We have soaker hose on our flat roof. The water that then goes up to the roof is cooler than it was coming out of the faucet. He put them to a timer. 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.

Yes water on the roof will help cool it. The hoses are connected to a sprinkler timer and come on six times during the hottest part of the day. 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.

Contact your local fire marshal for advice. They stay on long enough to wet the whole roof. Likewise don t climb up on your roof with a garden hose. Yes the soaker hose will help cool your roof and your home because the evaporation will use up some of that excess heat.

Sure yukkuri the author took conventional lawn sprayers to the edges of his roof on the gutters. 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. Expandable hose flex garden hose hot water use garden hoses 100 ft or greater garden hoses 3 8 inch rubber tubing flexible outdoor water pipe how doers get more done need help. 1 gallon of water consumes 8000 btu as it evaporates.

We live outside of yuma az the feed water is pretty warm to start with.