THE FUSION TOP 5 SURVEY

We list the top 5# most common reasons people have for postponing the decision to Fusion Foam Insulate their attic, walls, ceilings and basement

In reverse order;

5# : I see myself as a modern day Spartan, like in the movie “300” . I believe it’s good for my mental and physical being to be in a home that’s below freezing and as damp as a frog’s armpit. Pain is good . Comfort, heat, warmth and a damp free home is evil.

4#: The property market will rebound any day now and I know there is a hoard of savvy buyers out there waiting to pounce on my frosty den. Until I sell up, I will postpone any home improvements which might actually make life worth living and this recession bearable

3#: Despite the recent 40 year lows, Global warming is coming. Ireland will then be hotter than Tahiti and I will need to take the roof off my house instead , just to stay cool. Phew!

2#: I'm worried that if I insulate my home properly which will cut my heating bills, I'll upset my Home Heating delivery guy. He's so nice and friendly. He's practically 'family', he calls so often. He's even given me loads of fridge magnets and shiny calendars covered with pictures of his new oil delivery truck.

1# I am the Procrastination Master of the Universe. Someday soon oil will go back down below $12 dollars a barrel and it will be so cheap they will pay me to come and collect it . Someday soon that Hadron Collider thingy they have in Switzerland will yield up all the answers to the universe and then I will be able to heat my home with a flux capacitor powered by nothing more than old milk cartons and used tea bags. Until then my freezing partner and my shivering offspring have agreed to sit this winter out , again , just like last winter , and the winter before that and the........

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Places I Have Seen Foam Insulation But Never Realised It

Here at Fusion Insulation we regulalrly get asked "whats this foam like?" and "have I seen it before?". Truth be known most of us come in contact with insulating foam every day of our lives, often not even realising it. Its in our sofa's , its in our soft furnishings, its in our car seats and dashborads of cars. But the most often one thats overlooked is its usually the best and most highly reccomended way to insulate your hot water copper cylinder. Look in your hotpress now. If its got a blue or green sort of hard exterior that feels lukewarm to the touch then its probably insulated with foam insulation. Now the reason that we like to point this example out to people is that they can instantly recognise what a wondeful insulator foam really is.

If you have one of these foam insulated cylinders in your hot press, just reach in and touch it. How does it feel? Its firm , its solid its robust , it wont compress or sag, it wont tear away, and most importantly it feels cool. Thats an amazing feat when you consider that behind that 2 inches of solid foam you have a boiling caluldron of water, with water temperatures that are anywhere from 75 degrees centrigrade to over 100 degrees centigrade. Amazing. Well heres the really great news. Fusion Closed Cell Insulation is exactly the same as this foam and you dont have to bring your home to a factory to get it applied to your walls, attic and floors, we bring the foam insulation factory to your home or building site.

Isnt this the sort of insulation you want in your attic, your walls and floors?

With Fusion Insulation you can make your home, office and building perform like a  "Superinsulated Hot Water Cylinder "

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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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