This great article points readers in the right direction for them to create a warmer home.



I have been spreading a similarmessage in England for over 50 years 'without much success'. I have tried to educate householders about how important air-sealing the attic and roof spacewas. My company booked 5000 air-sealing orders from City Councils in 1972-1973, but just 1000 orders from private house owners which was not enough to make it

worth our while to persevere. So what did we do instead; we sold

straightforward Loft/Attic insulation and never mentioned that without

air-sealing the attic its completely worthless, let’s be honest would you buy

attic insulation if the person selling it told you in all honesty "What

you have read and know about fibrous insulation is wrong- the heat saving

figures are falsified- they might be correct if you were sealing a square box,

or a fridge, but definitely not when you are sealing a roof." Why?



(1) Fibreglass and Rockwool

Insulation is porous, water trickles through it, and take it from me if water,

steam or smoke can seep through it then so can HEATED AIR.



(2) If you’re not convinced try the water test, or hold

some insulation up to the light and see the Sun, better still climb inside your

attic on a cold day and feel how cold your insulation is? Feel it, touch it,

even take its temperature and guess what "It’s always cold," in fact sometimes

freezing cold. Because it succumbed to cold air entry from outside, it got

Frost Bite, and died from Hypothermia.









(3) I have insulated thousands of homes, guess how many

people phoned me afterwards, who thanked me and told me how wonderful it was,

ZILCH. A great big zero. And be advised we can lay and install insulation better

than any other UK company I know off. The answer to improving cold homes lies in reducing cold air entry and stopping draughts. It’s as simple as that. You must have planned

escape routes for moisture to exit the property (ventilation). And, what is the

miracle product to use: The Oscar Winner, The Triple Crown Winner, the Epsom

Derby Winner is: made by Dupont and called Tyvek and Housewrap.



*This post was written by an English Cousin,who still gripes about the land snatch that occurred in British-America in 1766 (we wuz robbed). A proud person who finds it incredible what a handful of determined individuals and their descendants achieved when they stepped of two boats, the Godspeed and the Mayflower. Hard men and even harder women who built houses with axes and saws? God Bless Our America, my America.

