We have soaker hose on our flat roof.
Soaker hose roof cooling.
Contact your local fire marshal for advice.
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.
We live outside of yuma az the feed water is pretty warm to start with.
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.
I would assume this would work in any climate where your roof got hot enough.
He put them to a timer.
Ours is installed at the peak of the roof and draining to both sides metal roof no.
They stay on long enough to wet the whole roof.
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.
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.
Yes water on the roof will help cool it.
Coming from the faucet it goes into a coil of plastic pipe in a tub with misters spraying the coil.
1 gallon of water consumes 8000 btu as it evaporates.
Use a soak n spray hose it puts out lots of very small streams down the length of the hose.