Spray Foam Insulation

With the high costs of heating homes these days, everyone wants to know how to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. By improving energy efficiency, less energy is needed to heat your home, and therefore it costs less to heat your home, whether you heat your home using oil, gas, or electricity. There are a lot of different ways to improve energy efficiency, and if you are interested in finding out more about this, you can contact your electric company. Most electric companies will perform free energy audits on your home and tell you ways to improve your energy efficiency. One way to improve energy efficiency is to make sure your home is properly insulated. Using spray foam insulation is one of the newest and most efficient ways to do this.

If your home is not well insulated, there are a lot of gaps where cold air can enter your house (and warm air can leave your house), so it will take more energy to keep the house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Air can come and go through all sorts of little holes, including the edges around doors and windows and the plugs that are on exterior walls. There might also be gaps or cracks in the outer walls of your home that aren't even particularly visible. It is important to try to find and seal these holes whenever possible.

Spray foam insulation fills all these tiny little cracks and holes that you don't even see. It goes on liquid and expands to form a continuous barrier. If you are building a new house, spray foam insulation is the most energy efficient type of insulation to use, although it does cost more than traditional insulation materials. You will make up for the extra cost with lower energy bills in the long run. Spray foam insulation has been used for this reason in some of the new green homes that are being built now.

Traditional insulation materials like fiberglass, cellulose and rock wool could be used to insulate your home in a few different forms, including bats, blankets, and loose fill. These types of insulation make it harder for hot or cold air to travel through the barrier they make between the inside of the house and the outside of the house. Traditional insulation materials don't eliminate all the little cracks and seams in the wall like spray foam insulation, so it takes a thicker layer of these types of insulation in order to have a similar effect.