Floor Insulation

Insulation is probably the most common, most popular, and most widely-accepted way to ensure that your home stays comfortable and its indoors temperature stays regulated. A home that has floor insulation, wall insulation, and ceiling insulation properly installed will stay warm or cool as you want it, without needing to keep air conditioning or heaters on all the time. This saves homeowners a lot of money, enough to make returns on their investment within the same year, and will continue to save them money for years to come.

Floor insulation sometimes gets neglected especially when a home already has insulation for the walls and ceiling. However, a lot of heat transfer occurs between the gaps and spaces in floors and underneath, so if you want to keep your house warm during the winter or cool during the summer, make sure that you have floor insulation installed. Otherwise, you will be having wasted heat escaping through those gaps underneath your property. Can you imagine how much energy is wasted when you have to turn on your heater and keep it running for hours on end? Or if you had to constantly turn on your air conditioner during summer season because it was sweltering hot inside?

Installing floor insulation is a practical and cost-effective solution to these issues. On its own, insulating your floors can be a very useful method of regulating the temperature inside your home. Furthermore, if combined with insulated walls and ceilings, it can make for a very comfortable home indeed. You won’t have to waste money because you’re not paying more than you would normally have to on your energy bills, and at the same time, you would be able to enjoy a home with a well-controlled, desirable indoor temperature.

Here are a few things you need to understand about floor insulation:

• Floor insulation will seal your floors and will greatly reduce the amount of heat transfer from occurring, but it does not heat the floors by itself. Hot air will naturally rise, and an estimated 15% of the heat from your home will escape through the floors. This is where floor insulation becomes important, because it will help block or reduce the amount of heat from escaping. This is especially crucial during the winter when you need to keep the warm air inside.

• Aside from preventing heat from escaping, floor insulation will also help prevent drafts. Floors that have been properly insulated are, in essence, sealed floors. If your property has a crawl space underneath it or perhaps built on a pier, drafts will inevitably occur. Insulating your floors will prevent that cold air from seeping through, keeping your house warm when you want it to be.

• Another valuable benefit of floor insulation is that it also prevents moisture from accumulating and ruining your wooden floors. For those with concrete or masonry floors, this may not be a problem, but for those that have wooden floors, they will know that those floors are prone to moisture. Wooden floors that get wet often will inexorably warp or stain sooner or later. Floor insulation acts as a barrier to block any unwanted moisture.