A common oversight that many homeowners do not realize is that the roof on their house does much more than just keep the rain out.
Roofs help to maintain the climate inside your home, too.
As a critical home component and system, it is essential to keep your roofing well maintained by a roof service with any repairs made as needed, not just to keep you dry but to keep you warm, too!
How Roofing Affects Inside Temperatures
How does your roof affect the temperature inside your home? It all happens inside the attic, which is technically considered by roofers to be a part of the whole roofing system.
The attic is a buffer space between the roof and the inside of the house.
According to experienced roof services, this space should ideally remain cooler than the rest of the house to maintain correct temperatures in the building and protect the roof at the same time.
An attic that gets too hot can lead to buckling and blistering shingles in summer and ice-damming in winter.
It usually also means that the heat in your house, which naturally rises, is leaking upward into the attic space rather than keeping the interior of the house warm.
Roof Health Needs Good Attic Insulation
The way that roofing companies control this is with adequate attic insulation.
A well-insulated attic prevents the passage of hot air through the ceiling and into the attic space where it can build up.
Allowing hot air to escape to the attic is both uneconomical, causing higher utility bills to keep the rest of the house warm, and potentially damaging to the roofing shingles.
Insulation Is A Simple Solution to Your Problem
Fortunately, there is an easy, and fairly inexpensive solution when your house seems cold but your attic is hot.
A roofing and attic inspection will reveal whether there is enough insulation on the floor of your attic and that there is enough attic ventilation as well.
A roofing company may recommend adding more or better insulation to prevent the heat inside your house from rising up into that space.
This new insulation will also actually help your home stay cooler in the summer by preventing the exchange of hot attic air into the living space where it will cause your air conditioning to run longer, too.
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If your furnace keeps running and your house does not seem to be staying warm, there are some obvious places you can check first for air leaks.
Should those checks fail to reveal any problems, don’t forget about the attic.
Have a roofer inspect your attic and install some more insulation, then see how cozy and warm your house stays afterward!