If you folks are speaking literally of "cool roof" coatings, we spent summer of 2011 redoing our 1928 townhouse metal roof with Hydro-Stop by Quest Building Products. �You can Google it for specs, but I can tell you that in August in Virginia at the worst time of the day you can walk barefoot on a metal roof coated with that stuff and the old silver roof paint or bare metal would burn your skin if you tried the same thing.

Attic temps were similarly affected. �Whereas we could barely breathe in the attic on a day like that before the coating, after the HS job the temp never exceeded 94F. �I think the reflectivity is 92%.

This might not be what you want on your Vanagon roof but it just might work to cool things down.
Stephen

--- On Fri, 6/14/13, JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cool roof paint on material for vanagon camper tops?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, June 14, 2013, 1:56 PM

I've wondered this myself. I'm in Alabama and the summer sun - as well
as ambient temps - can be pretty intense. Van sitting in the sun gets
plenty hot inside. The new ceramic tints help plenty - but the noonday
sun beating down on the old Tintop heats it up like a solar oven.It
needs new paint on top - and I was wondering about a more reflective
cooler and paint type for aiding and abetting cooling.

What say, Volks?

John

On 6/14/2013 10:16 AM, Kevin P. Gilleran wrote:
> Hi all,
> What is the general consensus for those of us who live and work in the hot
> areas of the country on painting the top of the vanagon with a reflective
> white paint to keep the inside a little cooler? Has anyone done this
> successfully and if so what material was used?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kevin
>