Keep roofs, walls and outdoor spaces much cooler
Under CoolTarp by reflecting solar heat energy back into space
After years of design and testing, here's the world's most reflective solar tarps that will add energy saving comfort outdoors or indoors on the hottest days and reduce expensive summer cooling costs by as much as 35% on buildings, RV's, boats, animal enclosures, or open space below that are exposed to the hot sun. It creates the ultimate cool roof or sunlit wall even in the hottest regions. Use it when hot, then remove it in winter to add solar heat gain when you need it most.
Snow White CoolTarp is now available! It costs less, is 5 times thicker, 7 times stronger, is more durable and longer lasting, and is nearly as heat reflective as our SolaReflex Foil CoolTarp. It's better suited to larger installations with outstanding outdoor life of at least 7-10 years in all types of weather. Few other tarps can claim this amount of longevity, and normally only last a few years outdoors before coming apart.
It has a variety of other uses as well, such as covering your RV, boat, popup (seen in photo on left), or patio cover, and comes in 12’ widths up to 300 feet long. Compared to standard utility white tarps, the added thickness and unique multiple UV resistant co-extruded layers allows only 10% sunlight to pass through, increasing resistance to solar heat penetation. Surface roof or wall temperatures under super bright Snow White Cooltarp average about 15-20 degrees F cooler than conventional white tarps.
Using either CoolTarp in summer creates passive solar cooling by reflection since no other energy source is needed to reduce solar heat gain. While white painted roofs or walls will reduce solar heat gain when compared to a typical dark colored roof, either SolaReflex CoolTarp on covered roofs or walls will further reduce solar heat gain by as much as 35-50% more.
Permanent white painted or coated roofs, called "Cool Roofs" work best in summer and are proven to reduce solar heat gain when it's hot, but in cold winter months white reflective roofs have a negative effect on daytime solar heating that helps warm the structure, increasing heating costs.
That's why installing CoolTarp for summer and removing it in winter is advisable in colder regions. Coated cool roofs can’t be removed in winter. Painted and coated roofs also begin loosing as much as 30% of their high reflectance after 1-2 years because of dust and dirt buildup from dusty winds and from stains, while CoolTarp is very stain resistant and can be easily cleaned on the ground or on a flat roof with soap and water and a broom before each summer installation to preserve the high reflectance.
Compare typical white roof visible reflectance of 60-80% and 90% emissivity to SolaReflex CoolTarp's 97.4% full spectrum solar reflectance which includes heat generating infrared (IR)light and super low (3%)emissivity. The higher level of reflectance, and lower the emissivity, the less solar heat can be absorbed and stored in the roof and wall structure.
Our tough, weatherpoof, UV and IR resistant radiant solar heat reflector product is called SolaReflex CoolTarp because it's made from our top-rated 97.4% reflective diffused SolarReflex 97% reflector foil that's been time tested by our many customers and scientists, and has been in use around the world for over 10 years for a wide variety of solar projects.
You won't find a more reflective flexible tarp or roof covering than CoolTarp.
This highly reflective, flexible material offers energy saving and comfort advantages in both summer and winter because radiant heat inside or outside a home or business travels the quickest through windows--even through low E and multiple glazed glass. Suspending CoolTarp near windows reflects, and not absorbs over 97% of that radiant energy back to the direction it came from before touching the glass. Less reflective solid surfaces, even insulation, absorbs heat and eventually it passes through to the other side.
SolaReflex CoolTarp makes an outstanding "fourth wall" for uninsulated garage doors or when installed inside the door in freezing cold weather.
It reflects most of the room temperature heat back into the space instead of allowing it to be absorbed by the door and lost to the freezing outdoors. If you have a passageway from a lower floor to an upper floor that has no door, installing a temporary CoolTarp "door" where the cold or warm air would normally pass through, a true thermal barrier made from CoolTarp can stop nearly all of the cold and hot air drafts from passing from one space to the other through the opening. It can actually be more effective than many insulated walls by preventing most of the heat absorption on the cold wall surface.
It's about 30% more effective than our top-selling 70% reflective Thermal Barrier Fabric, but it will completely block the view outdoors and no sunlight will pass through it. And consider the many other practical uses in summer or winter over pet enclosures, greenhouses, garden plants, sensitive electrical boxes, emergency use areas, and more!
It's not a painted or colored surface like all other tarps, tents, or roof surfaces that will reach 125-175 degree F temperatures that you can feel below, it's a triple-laminated tarp with two highly reflective metallized surfaces coated over a super-strong "rip stop" type plastic sheet specially coated with our SolaReflex reflective material. Nearly all the intense incoming solar energy generated heat is reflected away before it has a chance of being absorbed by the roof or surface or area underneath.
