Foil Insulation - Making the Home Toasty For Santa
If you're like many folks then you're in line to say your "bah humbug" over the upcoming Winter season.
Granted, the festivities aren't completely bad but the cold weather and high heating bills that come from a lack of foil insulation in your home can completely sour the holiday mood.
When you have a lot of other holiday expenses, the last thing you want to think about is a costly remodel on your home.
Thankfully, installing foil installation is an easy process.
It may look like a costly home improvement project initially but putting in a high quality radiant barrier in your home can reverse the cash flow so that you're losing far less during the holiday season.
At least on heating expenses - foil insulation can't help with the Christmas bills.
Improving the energy efficiency of your home is always a smart move, and with the simplicity of foil insulation you don't even need to bring in an HVAC or general contractor.
With a little study and research of the instructions beforehand you can mount foil insulation in your attic all by yourself.
It's the perfect DIY project to prep your home for winter and start earning back years of lost income to heat and energy inefficiency.
You might think your attic is fully insulated because it's full of that pink-panther cotton candy but you'd be amazed at just how inefficient that insulation truly is.
If you have an attic, you've also got an access panel and more than likely your attic access isn't insulated at all.
What's worse is that the door to the attic or the panel isn't likely to have a weather proofed seal.
If this is the case for your home, and it likely is, you're losing as much as (if not more than) 10% of your heat up into your attic day in and day out.
With foil insulation you can turn your attic into a monster that sends the heat screaming back down into your home.
Foil acts like a radiant barrier, reflecting more than 90% of the heat back down into the living space.
Your furnace works less and you won't have to endure further glares from your family as you notch the thermostat down "just 2 more degrees".
You see, the fiber glass insulation you have in your attic - even the blown insulation - only works to slow the transfer of heat.
It still loses the heat however, only slower.
Foil insulation stops heat loss almost completely by reflecting it back at its source.
Consider the ramifications of leaving a window open over the entire winter season.
The thought of the bitter, biting cold is unpleasant enough without thinking about how much money you would spend trying to heat the outside world.
Without foil insulation in your attic, that's essentially what you're doing.
Save your money and start paying yourself back by reinforcing the current insulation you have with foil insulation - it's easy to install, cost effective and will pay for itself time and again.
Granted, the festivities aren't completely bad but the cold weather and high heating bills that come from a lack of foil insulation in your home can completely sour the holiday mood.
When you have a lot of other holiday expenses, the last thing you want to think about is a costly remodel on your home.
Thankfully, installing foil installation is an easy process.
It may look like a costly home improvement project initially but putting in a high quality radiant barrier in your home can reverse the cash flow so that you're losing far less during the holiday season.
At least on heating expenses - foil insulation can't help with the Christmas bills.
Improving the energy efficiency of your home is always a smart move, and with the simplicity of foil insulation you don't even need to bring in an HVAC or general contractor.
With a little study and research of the instructions beforehand you can mount foil insulation in your attic all by yourself.
It's the perfect DIY project to prep your home for winter and start earning back years of lost income to heat and energy inefficiency.
You might think your attic is fully insulated because it's full of that pink-panther cotton candy but you'd be amazed at just how inefficient that insulation truly is.
If you have an attic, you've also got an access panel and more than likely your attic access isn't insulated at all.
What's worse is that the door to the attic or the panel isn't likely to have a weather proofed seal.
If this is the case for your home, and it likely is, you're losing as much as (if not more than) 10% of your heat up into your attic day in and day out.
With foil insulation you can turn your attic into a monster that sends the heat screaming back down into your home.
Foil acts like a radiant barrier, reflecting more than 90% of the heat back down into the living space.
Your furnace works less and you won't have to endure further glares from your family as you notch the thermostat down "just 2 more degrees".
You see, the fiber glass insulation you have in your attic - even the blown insulation - only works to slow the transfer of heat.
It still loses the heat however, only slower.
Foil insulation stops heat loss almost completely by reflecting it back at its source.
Consider the ramifications of leaving a window open over the entire winter season.
The thought of the bitter, biting cold is unpleasant enough without thinking about how much money you would spend trying to heat the outside world.
Without foil insulation in your attic, that's essentially what you're doing.
Save your money and start paying yourself back by reinforcing the current insulation you have with foil insulation - it's easy to install, cost effective and will pay for itself time and again.