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How to check up on your already existing home insulation

Insulation is crucial to ensuring that one’s home remains energy efficient when it is cool outside. Winters can be very cold and it is very important to get the insulation right. With the right amount of insulation, one can be assured of warmth being retained in the home despite severe cold outside. And with this, the home can be energy efficient, which is not only good for the individual in terms of capital expenditure, but also good for the environment. Without proper insulation done in the house, the energy present in the house might escape through the ceiling or the attic etc resulting in an extra amount of energy being required to keep the house cool.

 

With the fast changes in the weather conditions these years, it has become very vital to treat our homes and buildings with high quality insulation material. With this responsibility on us, it becomes very difficult to decide what brand to choose among all the brands available in the market. Here we bring you a solution to this problem. Out of all the insulation material available in the market, Kingspan insulation is among those brands which has been tested and is said to have a great result in home insulation. Next problem that we face is out of all these subcategories of Kingspan, which material is to be used where? So to serve you with a solution to this problem, we have listed the materials which will best suit various locations in your house. We first tell you about some special types of Kingspan products available:

If you have not insulated your roof and rafters, they are costing you a lot of money in the form of energy bills for every minute that you are using the heating system. This is not an ideal situation to prevent heat loss and save money as heat will escape through the roof and rafters. And a considerable temperature difference will be created because it is a known fact that hot air rises, and in an uninsulated roof, all the heat is bound to escape through the roof eventually. The insulation of roof and rafters is not an expensive procedure and neither a difficult one at that. There are several insulation options available to choose from.

Celotex insulation is one of the options available for the insulation of your roof. This is especially needed in the case of pitched roofs where much heat is lost because of the void. This space can be made habitable by insulating along the plane of the roof pitch with Celotex insulation; to create a warm roof structure with Celotex insulation, it can be used over the roof structure to work as insulating sarking. It eradicates the issue of thermal bridges at the rafters whilst the foil facings, used in conjunction with taped joints, provide an effective barrier to moisture vapour and air leakage. The Celotex TB4000 is a multi-purpose insulation board developed to provide simple solutions for overcoming localised thermal bridges. Celotex TB4000 is made by using rigid polyisocyanurate (PIR) which contains a combination of blowing agents that have zero ozone depletion potential (zero ODP) and minimal global warming potential (GWP). When you choose Celotex TB4000 you are specifically aiming insulation for the elimination of thermal bridges; it is available in varying thickness other than the commonly used standard size, is conveniently cut and shaped for fitting purposes, includes low emissivity foil facings giving improved thermal insulation performance within cavity air spaces and the chief advantage of all- it is a method for the long-term provision of reliable energy saving for structures.