Spray Foam Insulation Can Reduce Your Energy Bills By 30-50%

Insulation is a fundamental part of any home or building, yet most homeowners aren’t aware of its significance. Often brushed aside as unimportant or cosmetic, most people aren’t aware of just how large a role insulation plays in raising (or lowering) your utility bills or even the frequency of home repairs. We’re going to walk you through the basics of insulation and then discuss five key reasons everyone should be insulating their buildings.

Prevent Heat Loss

You’ve probably seen insulation before in your life. Whether it’s in an unfinished basement or a dusty attic, insulation in its standard form is usually a fluffy pink or white substance packed into the walls or ceilings of a building. Its major goal is to prevent heat loss and to retain both warmth and energy inside buildings. Without insulation, 40% of a home’s internal heat or cold air escapes through the walls, another 25% through the roof, and a final 20-25% through improperly sealed doors and windows. Homes that lose up to 90% of their energy not only pay to pump that initial energy expenditure into the home but then pay extra to try and make up for the lost energy by hiking up their thermostats. Insulation also protects against noise pollution. The thicker the padding, the less noise breaks in through the walls.

It’s Environmentally-Friendly

In recent years, insulation has become an integral component of environmentally friendly homes. Energy efficiency is critical in considering how and where to add insulation to a home. Good insulation retains heat longer, lowering electricity bills and reducing power plant and carbon emissions. Installing insulation in just 4 million homes (less than 4 percent of the real estate across the United States) produces environmental relief equivalent to planting 667 million acres of trees, enough to cover ten states the size of Colorado.

It Improves Air Qualty

Another benefit to insulation is the level of air quality control it can provide. For people with allergies or asthma, poorly installed insulation can trap moisture, develop mildew or mold, and spread quickly to other parts of the house. Not only is mildew or mold damaging to the rest of a house’s interior, but it can cause serious breathing problems and even lead to permanent respiratory damage. Hypoallergenic insulation, when appropriately installed, can prevent all of these issues and maintain a high quality of air filtering that both protects and maintains health and air quality.

Between environmental, health, and economic concerns, insulation is an obvious choice for any homeowner or property manager. We offer a variety of insulation types that can be customized to your specific health and property needs because we believe you deserve the safest and most efficient home possible.