Insulate you Home Walls Properly and Save Energy

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Insulate You Home Walls Properly And Save Energy
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Wall insulation acts as a barrier and restricts
heat loss and heat gain which in turn keeps home
cooler during summers and warmer during winters.
A properly insulated wall makes your home energy
efficient and provides improved comfort. Hence
proper insulation of walls is necessary. The
major drawback of a house without proper wall
insulation is air leakage. Because of the air
leakage home gets excessively cold during
winters. Similarly, heats up the home that is
unbearable during summers. Hence irrespective of
the size of your home it is important to insulate
its walls properly to make it energy efficient.
Insulating the walls of your home is equivalent
to wrapping it in a warm thermal blanket. There
are many benefits of a properly insulated wall as
well such as reduced HVAC bills, improved comfort
of homes and a lot more. Wall insulation is
broadly divided into three types these are
cavity wall insulation, internal wall insulation
and external wall insulation. Cavity Wall
Insulation Cavity wall insulation is one of the
most cost effective methods of insulating a home.
In this method insulation is pumped into the
existing cavity in the wall and hence is easy to
install. As we all know wearing several layers of
clothing keeps our bodies warm because the layers
trap the air in between them and keep it still.
The work mechanism of cavity wall insulation is
the same as a wool-like material is used to
insulate your home that traps the air between its
fibers to create an air matrix and hence retains
heat effectively.
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Internal Wall Insulation Internal wall insulation
as the name suggests is applied to the internal
walls of a building. Typically, it consists of
dry lining in the form of pre-insulated
plasterboard or built up system using studwork
frames and fibrous insulation such as mineral
wool. In one case, thermal studwork and glass
mineral wool insulation is used to build up
internal wall insulation which is once fitted
the walls are finished with plasterboard making
it look fresh and clean surface. In this case
encroachment of internal space is minimal. The
other case is where specially manufactured
plasterboard with insulation qualities is being
used. The thickness of the insulated plasterboard
determines the performance. The plasterboard is
either fixed with a screw or wet fixed to the
existing walls. It is comparatively an easier,
cheaper and effective method than the external
wall insulation. External Wall Insulation Also
known as Solid Wall Insulation, external wall
insulation is used to insulate houses that do not
have cavity walls. As the name suggests this
method is applied on the external walls of a
building. How it works is the same way as a
cavity wall insulation method works. It creates a
barrier that stops heat escaping through the
walls. In the external wall insulation method, a
rigid insulation material is being used i.e. the
expanded polystyrene slabs. These expanded
polystyrene slabs consist of thousands of trapped
air pockets that make it an excellent insulator.
These are also easy to cut into required shapes
and hence can be fit neatly around the windows,
door frames and other architectural features. To
fix these slabs anchors are being used that are
drilled into the walls and then covered with a
layer of reinforcing mortar. And all this is
covered up with a glass fiber mesh which provides
structural strength to the insulation system.
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