Keep Heat in During the Winter with Foam Backed Vinyl Siding
When there's a blizzard outside, it can be blissful inside with foam siding...
Heat always moves towards cold, through conduction, convection or radiation. Imagine paying to heat your home during the winter, only to have the warm air escape through your walls to the cooler outside air. Cold air can also circulate behind your siding, cooling the home faster (just like when you blow on hot soup to cool it down). These problems can be solved by adding Fullback®V form-fit siding insulation to your siding.
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To illustrate this principle, let's imagine this cardboard coffee cup is like your home during the winter. The inside of the cup is hot (about 175°), and your hand on the outside is cooler (about 98.6º). When you try to pick up the cup, it is hot to the touch. This is because the cardboard cup is serving as the thermal bridge from the hot coffee to your hand, just like the wooden studs do in your home. |
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What do you do when the cup is too hot to hold? You can switch to a foam coffee cup, which is made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam. Fullback®V siding insulation is also made of EPS, and exhibits the same insulating qualities as the cup. However, Fullback®V foam siding insulation is much thicker than the foam coffee cup (which is only about 1/16"), and therefore insulates even better. |
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The 76º temperature differential experienced in this example is about the same difference between the interior of your home (about 70-75º) and outside temperatures during the winter (which can be 0º and below). Fullback®V siding insulation works in the same way as the foam coffee cup, keeping heat inside where it belongs!
Ready for another example? Imagine that you're outside on a cold winter day, wearing a t-shirt with a windbreaker over top. You are still able to feel the cold when the fabric of the windbreaker touches your warm forearm, where it is not protected by the t-shirt. The windbreaker is actually serving as the thermal bridge between your warm body and the cool outside.
Now imagine that there is a thin layer of fleece on the inside of that windbreaker, breaking the thermal bridge. You will be warmer because your body heat is no longer being conducted through the nylon wind breaker. Adding Fullback®V siding insulation is like adding a layer of fleece around your home, keeping the warm air inside where it belongs!
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