Your Mother Always Told You to Wear a Hat. Your House Needs One Too – Attic Insulation from Owens Corning!
January 26, 2012
It’s a known scientific fact that heat rises and exits from the top of structures whenever it can, especially if access is easy and unhindered. This scientific fact has prompted mothers down through the ages to instruct their children to always wear hats during the cold winter months as a means to keep body heat inside and the cold air outside of their children’s bodies. The same applies and holds true for homes and heat during the cold winter months!
Heat mapping by infrared cameras has shown time and again that huge amounts of energy are lost out of the tops of houses that have not been properly insulated, since heat rises and escapes through roofing vents, thin wooden roof materials, missing shingles and the like. Indeed, a natural way to measure the amount of heat leaving your home is to gauge how much snow is melting off your roof during a cold day. Technically speaking, a well-insulated house should lose little heat and thus those well-insulated homes will have roofs that remain chilly, with full coatings of snow on the outsides of the roofs. When other homes in the neighborhood seem to have white roofs all winter-long and your roof is barren of snow, that’s a strong sign that heat is escaping and melting the snow on your home’s top surface.
AttiCat blown-in insulation from Owens Corning increases the efficiency of your home’s energy system by up to 20%, reducing your heating bills all winter-long. Why lose up to 40% of the conditioned air your home’s furnace generates when you can contain it, save money and stop wasting energy altogether. Learn more about expanding blown-in AttiCat insulation from Owens Corning as sold and installed by Bee Window. We know you’ll like what you learn!
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