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 A Guide To Everything Home Insulation



Did you know a quarter of heat is lost because your roof isn’t insulated? Insulating your loft, attic or roof is essential for you to be able to minimise heat loss and reduce your heating bills. Installed right, the roof insulation should pay for itself multiple times over in its 40-year lifespan. Insulation will help you keep the desired temperature in your house all year round, protecting it against cold in winter and excess heat in summer. Insulation is also useful to reduce noise pollution. A well-insulated house is very energy efficient and will need very little additional heating and cooling. Whether self building or renovating, the thermal efficiency of your home should be a essential concern for savings and environmental reasons.


Benefits
  • remarkable savings on your energy bills
  • easy and fast to install
  • keeping yourself warm at night


What Is Home Insulation? 


Insulation will help you keep the desired temperature in your house all year round, protecting it against cold in winter and excess heat in summer. Insulation is also useful to reduce noise pollution. A well-insulated house is very energy efficient and will need very little additional heating and cooling. How much money you will save by insulating your home will depend on different factors like the type of insulation and the size of your house. Moreover, depending on how old your house is, you will need to incorporate more or fewer insulation measures. The good thing is that you generally don’t need any planning permission for fitting insulation measures and they will eventually pay back so it is a wise investment. Usually, modern houses are built to very good insulation standards, but old houses in the UK need a lot of work to be done. In the last case, there are probably many options to improve the energy efficiency of your house. When too cold, heat can be lost in all directions, so you should think of integral insulation to keep the heat in your house. You can choose to insulate your roof, floors, walls, windows and doors. The most important thing is the walls since for a typical house the walls will lose around 30 to 40 per cent of the heat. The roof comes in second place, accounting for approximately 25% of heat loss. Then comes windows and doors with 20% and finally, the floor.




What Are Insulators Made of?

There are different materials and qualities, but generally good insulators consist of products that have a structure similar to wool, that trap tiny pockets of air. Fabrics like cotton and hemp are great insulators, which means that having strong curtains will help to have a well-insulated home. Also, wood-based products like hardboard and wooden doors are good insulators that will help keep your house warm. There are also spray foam solutions generally polyurethane-based. Foam can be either used for roof tiles since it fills gaps or also the adhesive strips variant can be used around windows and doors. You can also use sealants to stop draughts through cracks and gaps.

What are the different types of Insulation 

Cavity Wall Insulation

Cavity walls are made up of two layers with a gap between them. Walls are constructed this way to stop rainwater leak into homes. If you have cavity walls, you will be able to fill that gap with insulation. 

There are two types of cavity wall insulation; partial fill and full fill, both of which can be purchased from InsulationBee.com. Partial fill sees the cavity between the two wall layers partially filled with insulation, while full fill sees the cavity completely filled with insulation. 

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Roof Insulation

A flat roof where the insulation sits below the waterproof membrane and above the structural deck is a warm roof deck

Warm roof - Warm roof Insulation's reduce heat losses and controls the retention as to not get too hot during the summer.

Cold Roof - Cold insulation is the cheapest form of roof insulation, It's easy to do as a DIY project. 


External wall insulation

External wall insulation is a type of insulation that is secured to the outside of your walls. Two layers of material are used, one to provide insulation, and another of mineral or synthetic render to protect from the weather and also provide the finishing look of your homes.



The R-Values

R-value is a measure of how well a two-dimensional barrier, such as a layer of insulation, a window or a complete wall or ceiling, resists the conductive flow of heat. It's very important and should not be overlooked. R-value is the materials resistance to conductive heat flow. There are many factors that will help you determine which R-value you need for your home The higher the R-value, the better the thermal performance. It varies between different types of insulation, where you would have a higher R-value for roof insulation compared to wall insulation.


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