How Cladding protects your home from the sun

The impact of weather conditions on your home

The past decade was the hottest on record for our planet, with climate change being the cause. Climate change causes extreme weather conditions, from severe cold, to wide-spread flooding, extended heatwaves, and high-speed winds. As a homeowner knowing the consequences of climate change and the impact these extreme weather conditions may have on your home in the future is valuable knowledge aiding you to the steps you can take to protect what is likely your most valuable asset preventing it from damage.

How to Protect Your House from Sun Heat

Warm climates provide months of gorgeous sunlight but can have adverse effects to your home. Homes tend to absorb a lot of the sun's heat causing homeowner to use excess energy than needed in costs to cool the residents. Conserving energy will save the average homeowner enough to treat the family to a holiday at least once a year! Take these steps to help protect your home.

Plant Trees and Shrubs. This will help block out sunlight from directly reaching your home.

Most exterior housing materials are designed to be resistant to UV rays one being Fibre cement cladding, we’ll talk about it more in detail later in the article.

Cover Your Windows, hang drapes to block light during the hottest hours. Drapes are very cheap and affective at blocking lights.

Choose Fabrics and Colours Resistant to Fading. Darker fabrics can absorb heat and fade due to the adverse effects of sunlight hitting your home directly, choose lighter colours to prevent this.

The effect of colour on heat absorption

Paint your home’s exterior walls white so they absorb less heat. Darker colours attract and absorb heat. A light colour, like white, is highly reflective and a better choice in hot climates.

The colour of your home’s exterior influences a lot more than the look of your home. The outside of your house either absorbs or reflects heat, making the inside hotter or cooler.

Dark coloured materials and objects radiate and absorb heat the fastest. The reason for this is that lighter colours reflect more light. Since light is energy, absorbing it would increase a material temperature. This means that due to having darker colours you are increasing the warmth of your home and if you live in a hot climate this can have adverse effects to your home.

Why you should install Fibre Cement Cladding

Fibre cement cladding is made from cement which has been reinforced with cellulose fibres. With the life expectancy of 50 years there’s not many better long-term investments that you can do for your home than Fibre Cement Cladding. Once installed, fibre cement cladding requires virtually no maintenance. It is an extremely eco-friendly material and will continue to look great and perform like the day it was installed for many years.

Risk conditions like building cracks and water leakage problems can be minimised by applying fibre cement cladding. Fibre cement cladding in the exterior wall prevents the occurrence of cracks in the building due to heat conditions. It’s a common problem reported by people living in areas where extreme weather changes happen. Hence doing fibre cement cladding while renovating the exterior wall of the building can reduce the occurrence problems occurring in the future.

Fibre cement cladding consists of many different materials, 10% of the materials used to make fibre cement is considered flammable, meaning a massive 90% of the material is not flammable even when exposed to extreme heat.

Fibre cement cladding is by far one of the most durable products on the market for your exterior wall. It is resistant to water, UV rays, rotting and other adversities that can affect your home. With fibre cement, your home is covered, and you have nothing to be concerned about.

Buy your Paint and Cladding products with us today at www.insulationbee.co.uk or speak to one of our friendly staff on 02038839057

Soundproofing Flooring

Stopping sound from entering your property is not always easy to diagnose. Sound travels quickly and manages to make its way into the structure quite easily. It is after all a form of energy, and quite simply, an invisible invader which is difficult to predict and control. However, with soundproofing materials and methods that are most suitable for your particular case, you should be able to significantly reduce sound transmission, and make your home far more peaceful and quieter than before. What Does Soundproofing Mean? Soundproofing is interjecting sound waves before they reach the location you plan to soundproof. Soundproofing is done by setting up absorbing material or reducing it. Sounds travel through vibrations to stop them in their tracks, you have to put the material in front of it to absorb or break the vibration. The two common types of noise are: Airborne sound – such as sound from electronics, cookers, cars, and general speech, these...

How to Reduce Noise Using Underlay

Sound can travel through liquids, solids or gases making it one of the biggest nuisances for every home. Underlay can reduce acoustic noises, underlay reduces sound from travelling from one place to another. Underlay also dramatically improves sound and heat insulation, underlay can help cut your energy bills helping reduce costs and provide comfort to your home, it’s the best investment you can make long term for your home. How Can Underlay Reduce Sound and Loud Noises? There are lots of different materials that can be used for sound reduction, all with their own list of benefits. Some materials that are effective are foam and sponge, used as underlay they can reduce sound waves, you can purchase foam and sponge underlay from us at InsulationBee.co.uk . These materials will protect your flooring above and do a great job at sound reduction. What is Impact Noise Reduction? Impact noise is sound when two surfaces collide, and it is exactly what unde...

One of the more common complaints about houses with poor build quality is noise transfer, both from outside sources but in particular between the rooms in the house itself. Poor acoustics is something that could, and should, be considered at the design stage of a project. Sound transmission between homes, is a major problem in the UK which requires serious consideration from both architects and builders. Noise nuisance can be a serious cause of stress, and if not remedied it can affect our health and wellbeing as well as influencing everyday life. What Does Soundproofing Do? To soundproof a home means to lower the intrusion of external noise, while also insulating it so noise cannot escape the space. In many cases acoustic insulation is used to prevent any noise from outside interfering with the residents within. This could be anything from voices, nearby building works or high lev...

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