Cozy Cornerstones: Building Comfort Into Your Home – Choosing the amount and type of insulation are two important decisions that affect a home’s comfort and energy efficiency. It is the most important step to follow the principles of construction science.
Not long ago, builders insulated homes almost entirely by root. The job usually meant rolling out rolls of fiberglass batting and stuffing them into wall and ceiling cavities.
Cozy Cornerstones: Building Comfort Into Your Home
Fiberglass batts are still the most widely used type of insulation in the United States.Inexpensive and available almost anywhere, fiberglass batts are easy to install. This insulation is only effective when installers are concerned about the details (keeping the batt consistent and unobstructed). And, unfortunately, most of the time they are not.
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