For years, the insulation scope of a building process was merely glanced at
during the budget meeting prior to breaking ground on a new project.
Today, with consistent increases in
the price of energy, a home’s energy efficiency and successful application of
building science is very much so, a high priority. Society has also become more aware of the
“green” movement, and actively looks to participate. The evolution of insulation has created a
solution to an energy loss problem.
Fiberglass
insulation is a method of insulating a home, dating back to 1938. With technological advances doubling every
ten years, you may ask yourself; Why is it still used today?
Trends
show fiberglass is being used less and less as people are becoming educated on
the use of spray foam and its air barrier characteristics. No matter how much fiberglass insulation you
have in an attic, and how cool it may keep it (or warm), the HVAC unit may
continue to run and run. This is the
result of malignant air leakage. The
average household could fill two blimps per day due to air leaking out of a
building envelope. Icynene, the leader
in spray foam, provides the cure all to air leakage, with supplemental advantages such as increased
air quality, sound attenuation, and added structural integrity.
Icynene
is applied to the entire underside of the roof decking, all the way to the
perimeter, rendering the use of soffit vents useless, thus creating an
“unvented attic.” The easiest way to
grasp the concept of an unvented attic is a tightly sealed cooler; if you set
two coolers out full of ice with one of them being cracked open, which cooler
would have ice a day later? Why... the unvented cooler has successfully contained
the cold, allowing the ice (HVAC) to work less and CONSERVE its energy.
Icynene
works in a similar fashion, giving your HVAC a huge reduction in output, thus
cutting your cooling and heating costs nearly in half! To learn more, visit www.thermaseal.net.
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