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The temperature of a roof on a summer day can reach up to 165° Fahrenheit, and temperatures in attics can reach 130° Fahrenheit in many parts of the United States. Most people are only familiar with traditional home insulation to stop all this heat from transferring from their attic to the rest of their home, and may not be aware of the advantages that multi-layered thermal reflective insulation can offer. In fact, an attic multi-layered thermal reflective insulation system from FHA reduces heat transfer from thermal radiation, and helps keep your home cooler all summer long, keeping you and your family comfortable, as well as lowering your energy bills.
Radiation is the main method of heat production and transfer in a home attic. Roofs absorb infrared rays from the sun that are beating down on your home. This heats the surface of the roof and its inner framework. These materials continue the chain reaction and radiate heat into the attic and onto the attic flooring, and inevitably allowing it to be transferred through your mass insulation by conduction into your home. Once the ceiling below the roof is warm, it’s just a matter of time until your living space heats up through convection and conduction. Multi-layered thermal reflective insulation stops up to 97% of this heat transfer from your roof to your standard insulation, so that it will never get a chance to reach your living space.
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Radiant Barrier Keep Summer Cooling Costs Low |
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Our product functions extremely efficiently in attics because of its reflective and emissive qualities, and ease of installation - with virtually no maintenance whatsoever. Multi-layered thermal reflective insulation stops up to 97% of radiant heat from infrared rays that bombard it. This effective process causes the total radiant energy that is released into the attic insulation and into your home down to 3% or less. Just think about the impact that can have on your summer cooling costs. With our already low pricing it will pay for itself in a very short time! Installation of attic multi-layered thermal reflective insulation can be the single most important thing you can do to make air conditioning your home more efficient and less costly. |
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History of Radiant Barrier Foil |
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Reflective barrier is a phenomenal product with a wide array of uses--some are common, some are not as widely known. It has been used for commercial applications - such as thermal canteens and flasks - since the 1870s due to its advanced insulative qualities. It was even used as early as the 1920s in construction materials to drastically improve energy efficiency. Radiant heat barrier building materials grew in popularity during the decades that followed and were put to widespread use until the 1960s when the entity that had manufactured these various products went out of business. Beginning in the 1950s, researchers at NASA began to use versatile reflective materials in the space program, and they continue on with that tradition today. The 1980s saw a rebirth in multi-layered thermal reflective insulation foil use for building applications. Today it is used in homes, commercial buildings, agricultural facilities, and everywhere else that people want to maximize energy efficiency and indoor temperature control. |
