Insulation Coatings Save Energy And Protect

May 4th, 2010 by Guest Author Leave a reply »

Insulation Coatings offer many advantages for both homes and industry. They even find use in many automobiles. The coatings can be used to protect humans and to save money in heating and air conditioning costs.

Insulation coatings are more effective than lose fill insulation, because they not only have insulation value, they fill gaps and cracks that can allow airflow into your home. These coatings can be applied by spray where insulation bats cannot be held in place. Under modular homes, insulation coatings will stay in place even when the home is being moved into place.

These coatings are both strong and lightweight. They can even be used to give more structural integrity to a building.

With all insulation, you will find that heat gain and loss are lowered, but you will find another advantage. That advantage is that outside noise levels also will drop in an insulated building. In a home, this means that with insulation, you will hear fewer noises from the street. In condos and apartments, this can mean that individual units have more privacy. In an industrial setting, the insulation can be used to protect the hearing of the remainder of the building from the noise of equipment.

Insulation coatings can also protect humans in other ways. When a steam pipe is coated with an insulation coating, the coating can prevent serious burns or injury. If water condensation is a problem on cold water pipes, coating them in an insulation coating can prevent the condensation problem.

In addition to providing insulation, many of the coatings can also provide waterproofing. This is especially helpful with basements. Before backfilling around the concrete of a basement wall, the wall is sprayed with an insulation coating that both helps to prevent condensation on the inside of the walls and prevent water from entering from the outside of the wall.

Metal buildings have become quite popular in the past few years. They offer a quick way to build a dry windproof shop or industrial building at a low cost. Unfortunately, metal is a poor insulator. By adding insulation coatings to metal buildings, the occupants are left much more comfortable. The coating can be applied with a spray gun and adheres to the metal. You will save money on both heating and cooling bills and the shop will be much more comfortable for employees. Recovery of the money that is invested in the building will be recovered in a very short while.

Insulation coatings are mildew and mold resistant and rodents find the materials offensive. The coatings will stop problems with rodents, making it ideal for food storage areas. Since water is not trapped and held as with cellulose or fiberglass, the material does not give a chance for black mold spores to germinate after flooding.

There are many other uses for insulation coatings. In fact, many of the coatings may already be at use in your current home without your knowledge. Many water heater, appliance and furnace manufactures use these coatings to make a more energy efficient products for use in the home.

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