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FUSION'S UNIVERSAL "INSULATION LAW"

"FUSION'S FIRST LAW OF INSULATION"

"If you use the insulation you have always used you will get the results you have always got"

What are those "results" we refer to:

  • Outrageous heating bills
  • Dampness
  • Draughty Rooms and Hallways
  • Uncomfortable Home and Work environment
  • Cough's, Sneezes, and Aches and Pains

Here at Fusion Insulation we are zealot like in our mission to spread the 'insulation' good word. If its any consolation we have lived in homes that were badly insulated or had ineffective insulation. We have also spent way too much on heating bills and we have suffered through draughty and damp accommodation. Then we found the way. It came to us like a revelation. It was SPRAY IN PLACE FOAM INSULATION. The highest performing seamless insulation on the market today. No other insulation can insulate your home and office like  

FUSION SPRAY IN PLACE FOAM INSULATION

can.
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The Ordinary Guy's Guide to "U" Values


Discover why "U" Values are only half the story for Truly Great Insulation.

If your insulation has a great U value on paper but in practice it doesn't seem to be doing its job , then you're about to discover that U values are only half the picture and why you need the double act of U values and Airtghtedness in your home, office or building for that truly "Bali" Beachouse feeling of warmth and dryness

Let's get the basics covered first; U values are a handy way to simplify what can be a fairly black art. "U" values are a measure of thermal resistance. In other words, a U value rating will give you some idea as to how 'difficult'  that insulation will  make it for heat or indeed cold passing through it, for a given depth of that insulation. To avoid freezing, in the winter you want to keep the heat in and in a baking summer you dont want your home or office becoming like an oven. The better the U value per inch or mm depth of insulation (the lower the figure) the better your home, office or building will retain its temperature. In the USA they use an R value system which is kinda like the reverse of U values, so the higher the R value the better the insulating abilities.

Simple so far? Well here's where the plot thickens. You see a U value is not a real world figure. Its measured in a laboratory and lots of people with pointy heads and lots of letters after their names, write whats know as  'protocols' or proceedural reports as to how they achieved these test results. Now you would be surprised to discover that a lot of insulation types achieved great U values from these laboratory tests, under strict laboratory conditions i.e. pretty much as near non real world conditions as you could imagine. We're not suggesting that these scientists have deliberately done a bad job. Hey, it must be very difficult in fact design just one test thats able to provide a 'universal' value system applicable to dozens and dozens of different types of insulations , but its you the end user that shells out for insulation that you thought would do the job, only to find out afterwards that in the real world, that insulation is not performing.

Let us give you an example. Its blowing a force 5 outside your home and the humidity in the air is 85%, and you have cavity walls and a standard, typical ventilated attic space . Would you want an insulation in your attic that couldnt handle air movement across it, or lost most of its of its U values if it got damp?  Would you want an insulation that sagged when it got damp and compressed down so it became ineffective as an insulation? Well the shocking news is that there are many insulation types out there that achieved excellent U values from lab tests, but cant repeat those results in the real world, of your attic, walls or floors.

What's needed is an insulation that tough, rugged, wont sag , compress, and yet retain its thermal resiistance properties over time. You need and insulation that forms an airthight seal , in situ, in your attic walls and flloors. You want an insulation that will shrug of water, rain, and moisture and will literally cold shoulder force 10 gales into touch. You want all this and a reassuring lifetime warranty. You want Fusion Spray In Place Insulation Foam becasue you never want to second guess the most important element of your enjoyment and satisfaction in your home, office or building.

"Comparing Apples with Apples"

But wait there's one more potential 'pothole' when it comes to comparing U values. There are some insulation brochures out there, that while not being misleading are perhaps a little economical with the facts e.g. Some brochures and literature quote a U value for say a 100mm insulation panel and it looks great.


You're about to place an order but then you read the small print at the bottom of the page (and we're talking 7 font small print here), and you notice that the U values quoted are in fact "typical as built U values" In other words they have calculated the plasterboard, the plaster, the insulation, the typical two course cavity block construction and the typical 20mm of external render that would be on that wall.

Hey why not include that cat sitting on the window cill as well?

So in practice their insulation seems to be performing spectacularly well , but not so well when you subtract the other materials they have thrown in. So the moral of the story is ,

"STUDY THE SMALL PRINT CAREFULLY"

Always compare like with like, Apples with Apples and Oranges with Oranges

Below are our REAL WORLD "U" values and these "U" values will be there in gales force winds, raginging storms or heatwaves. Our insulation is backed by a Lifetime Warranty after all

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Building Insulation - Whats the deal?

 

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

Quote from Margaret Thatcher:

There are times when you have to ‘come off the fence’, nail your colours to the mast, don’t fluff the issue, call it for what it is. Either the Emperor has his clothes on, or he’s standing there butt naked.

At Fusion insulation we regularly get asked “What’s the best building insulation?” or “What’s the best home insulation?” and genuinely answering those questions can put us in an awkward position, because answering those questions inevitably involve pointing out some of the weaknesses in other insulation systems.

Some people get offended, upset and send us emails we’d rather not get.


But we’d rather upset a few manufacturers, rather than give an innocent person only ‘half the picture’ when enquiring on a subject which has the potential  to make their home feel really fantastic or really drearily dreadful


There are times when you just have to call it as you see it and you can’t swing both ways, you can’t stand in the middle of the road. We content ourselves, when we are critical of the normal sheet and board insulations that abound in our country and fill up trucks, and builders depots around this land, that we can actually speak about them from direct experience. If you bought a car for example and it really let you down, in our book you’ve earned the right to point out the weaknesses of the vehicle if someone enquired from you.


Here at Fusion, we can say with certainty that all our guys have worked heavy construction, all are homeowners and all have experienced ‘traditional’ insulation systems whether they were in our homes, office or workplace. So we’ve bought the proverbial tee-shirt and ‘paid our dues to the man’.
Great Home and Building  Insulation comes down to two things really;

 

•    Is the insulation solid and stable enough to give you excellent U values and keep those U value ratings, no matter how old it gets, or no matter what environment that insulation finds itself in, wet, damp, cold or heat

•    Is that insulation seamless, joint less and  impervious to winds, draughts and breezes

If, on your insulation checklist your insulation can hit these two ‘bull’s-eyes’ dead centre then my dear reader you are onto a winner.


Let’s take that ‘one two’ test and apply it to the vast majority of ‘Roll and Sheet ‘insulations that are so common up and down our land. Let’s leave aside for a moment how downright uncomfortable it is to handle a lot of those woolly insulations, ignore how those itchy glass pieces get into just about every part of your body. Lets look at the claimed performance roll type woolly insulations for a moment as they tend to be the cheapest and ‘commonest’ out there.


On paper woolly insulations have great U values . But if you read the small print and examine how these insulations achieved their U value ratings you’d be shocked to discover that in those self same tests, the woolly insulations were actually tested in bone dry low humidity conditions and with zero air movement or extremely low air movement across them .

 

“Bone Dry” and “No Air Movement”? Like when and where do we get those weather conditions in Ireland? The Mohave desert maybe, but not Monaghan, the Bonneville Flats perhaps but definitely not Bunclody


The big deal is that you simply don’t get laboratory conditions in the real world conditions of your attic at home or your loft. In the real world air is damp, air moves at sometimes frightening speed and when that happens Roll type insulations lose their U ratings and often become little better than useless. Here’s the thing, many if not most roll type insulations need to be in airtight cavities and actually bone dry to perform at their best. Most Roll type insulations simply can’t cope with the real world and when they meet the real world, damp, moist conditions they soak dampness and instead of acting as insulators any longer now become rather excellent conductors.


Cold damp air can whip through roll type insulations like a hot knife through butter and case those roll insulations to compress, warp, and shift and as a result become dramatically less effective. End result your home  shivers and you feel miserable.


Sheet type insulations? They are better than roll type insulations but they have a ‘weak link’ . That weak link is they have to be jointed . The smaller the sheets the more the joints. More joints equal areas where heat can be lost and U values destroyed .The harsh reality is that if there was some magic way to ‘seam weld’ all those board joints together and make the board insulation of equal thickness and airtight then you would approach what’s needed for a really great insulation system .
Such and insulation system already exists and its called Fusion Spray in Place Seamless Foam Insulation. Its like having an insulation factory at your home, on your site manufacturing and placing your ideal depth of insulation in a seamless airtight sheet.

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