subject: Cavity Wall Insulation: An Effective Way to Save Energy and Money [print this page] Cavity Wall Insulation: An Effective Way to Save Energy and Money
If your home was built from the 1920's and onwards, your house's external walls are likely made of two layers with a small gap between them called cavity walls.
Insulating your cavity walls which means filling that gap is an effective way to save energy and money at home. So, insulating your cavity walls will help you to retain the heat in your home during cold seasons more efficiently as well as save money on your bills, too.
Therefore, for high quality insulation materials, Building Materials UK is the right place to go. The most appropriate insulation material that Building Materials UK can possibly recommend for you is Rockwool insulation.
Rockwool Insulation comes in a variety of roll and slab products which are used to provide acoustic, fire and thermal insulation in walls, ceilings, floors and roofs. An important attribute of Rockwool insulation is its ability to increase the energy efficiency of a building.
By making improvements to the building envelope, upgrading and increasing the level of insulation contained within the structure enables the building to perform better in terms of energy loss. This is calculated and measured by the U Value of the construction.
Products within the Rockwool Insulation range include Flexi Acoustic Slab and RW Acoustic Slab. These come in a variety of thicknesses from 25mm to 140mm and densities from around 33kg/m3 to 140kg/m3. These Rockwool insulation materials are generally used to insulate internal partition walls and ceilings and come in a 1200 x 600mm slab for ease of installation.
On the other hand, Building Materials UK offers other insulation products such as Kingspan insulation used to provide improved levels of thermal insulation to the walls, floors and soffits within a building.
The Kingspan insulation constitutes extruded polystyrene, polyscyanurate or phenolic insulation boards that generally all come in 8ft x 4ft (2400mm x 1200mm) sheets.
As is to be expected with such a wide spectrum of products, they also range in cost from the cheaper polyscyanurate insulation board sheets to the most expensive fire retardant phenolic insulation boards.
For enquiries on Rockwool insulation and Kingspan Insulation, call 0845 1133848 or check Building Materials UK at http://www.buildingmaterials.co.uk
