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Insulation in your home provides resistance to heat flow and lowers your heating and cooling costs. Properly insulating your home not only reduces heating and cooling costs, but also improves comfort. A Cleaner Image can help; our insulation experts provide residential and commercial services throughout the greater Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse NY areas. Whether it’s full home insulation, attic insulation and/or basement insulation, our insulation installers and consultants have you covered.

How Insulation Works

To understand how insulation works it helps to understand heat flow, which involves three basic mechanisms — conduction, convection, and radiation. Conduction is the way heat moves through materials, such as when a spoon placed in a hot cup of coffee conducts heat through its handle to your hand. Convection is the way heat circulates through liquids and gases, and is why lighter, warmer air rises, and cooler, denser air sinks in your home. Radiant heat travels in a straight line and heats anything solid in its path that absorbs its energy.

Heat flows from warmer to cooler areas until there is no longer a temperature difference. In your home, this means that in winter, heat flows directly from all heated living spaces to adjacent unheated attics, garages, basements, and especially to the outdoors. Heat flow can also move indirectly through interior ceilings, walls, and floors–wherever there is a difference in temperature. During the cooling season, heat flows from the outdoors to the interior of a house.

To maintain comfort, the heat lost in the winter must be replaced by your heating system and the heat gained in the summer must be removed by your cooling system. Properly insulating your home will decrease this heat flow by providing an effective resistance to the flow of heat.

R-Values

An insulating material’s resistance to conductive heat flow is measured or rated in terms of its thermal resistance or R-value — the higher the R-value, the greater the insulating effectiveness. The R-value depends on the type of insulation, its thickness, and its density. The R-value of most insulations also depends on temperature, aging, and moisture accumulation. When calculating the R-value of a multilayered installation, add the R-values of the individual layers.

Installing more insulation in your home increases the R-value and the resistance to heat flow. In general, increased insulation thickness will proportionally increase the R-value. Also, remember that air sealing and moisture control are important to home energy efficiency, health, and comfort.

Call us a call at 585-377-1960 to schedule your complimentary on-site appointment to assess your home needs.

Benefits of Insulation

  • Saves energy
  • The blown-in material locks in cooler indoor air temperatures in Summer & prevents heated and cool air loss.
  • Reduces energy bills
  • Fire protection
  • Soundproofing benefits – reduce noises from outside and inside your home
  • Improves the performance of your HVAC System
  • Reduces condensation
  • Contributes to a healthier environment