Monday, April 2, 2012

How to insulate your home


The outside temperatures and noise of the big city are some of the biggest hassles that you may suffer at home and yet, are issues that could easily be avoided if you knew how to isolate it properly.


In fact, the ideal is to make your home become your own refuge from the world outside giving it all possible elements to make it the place more comfortable for you.

Here we leave some of the different options for thermal and acoustic insulating your home, do not miss them!


- Double glazing: Windows are the focus for our homes lose much heat and the falling just outside temperatures, so give them a double glazing can halve our heating needs.

- Material in the windows: Some materials such as iron or aluminum not just help to insulate the inside from outside temperatures, and have a high ability to conduct heat or cold into your home.

If your windows are made of wood you can put foam weather stripping to keep out the cold, although it is best to go for windows called 'thermal break' containing insulating material between the inner and outer.

- Orientation of the home: This is not something you can change once you have your home but it is something that is increasingly being given more importance and is referred to the architecture that leverages its orientation to get more solar and power using high quality materials heat.

- Soundproofed Walls: The most common materials to get them are the bricks, mineral wool, synthetic stucco, the compact concrete, plastic canvas or cork, among others.

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