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Keep Heat in During the Winter with FullbackFC

When there's a blizzard outside, your home can be blissful inside with siding insulation for fiber cement...

Are you paying to heat your home during a cold winter, only to realize that the warm air is escaping through your walls to the cold outside air? If you haven't addressed the issue of thermal bridging by adding insulation to the outside of your home, this may be what is causing your energy loss.  

Heat always moves towards cold, through conduction, convection or radiation. The heat that you are paying for can be conducted across the wooden studs in your walls and escape to the cooler outdoors. Also, cold air can circulate behind your siding, cooling your home even faster (just like when you blow on hot soup to cool it down). These problems can be resolved by adding form fit foam insulation to the outside of your home. To help explain this principle better, check out the two examples below.

Example #1

Imagine that a cardboard coffee cup is like your home during the winter. The inside of the cup is hot (let's estimate around 175°) and your hand that is touching the outside of the cup is much cooler (about 98.6°). When you try to pick up the cup, it is hot to the touch. This is because the cardboard cup is serving as a thermal bridge from the coffee to your hand, similar to the way the wooden studs do in your home. So what do you do when the cup is too hot to hold?

Solution: Switch to a foam coffee cup, which is made from expanded polystyrene (EPS). Fullback®FC siding insulation for your home is made from the same material, and the products exhibit the same insulating qualities. However, Fullback®FC is much thicker than the coffee cup (which is only about 1/16" thick), so the insulating results are even better!

How is this like my home? The 76° differential experienced in this example is about the same as the difference between the interior of your home (about 70-75°) and the outside temperatures during the winter (which can be 0° and below). Fullback®FC works just like foam coffee cup, keeping heat inside where it belongs!


Coffee Cup without Sleeve

insulation cup

 

Example #2 

Picture that you're outside on a cold winter day. You are wearing a t-shirt with a wind breaker over top. As the wind blows, the fabric of the wind breaker touches your warm forearm, where it is not protected by a t-shirt, and you feel the cold. In this case, the windbreaker is serving as the thermal bridge between your warm body and the cool outside air.

Solution: Switch to a windbreaker lined with fleece on the inside. The fleece is now able to break the thermal bridge, causing your body to feel warmer because you are no longer losing heat through the nylon wind breaker.

How is this like my home? When you add Fullback®FC to your home, it's like adding a layer of fleece to your jacket, helping to keep the warm air inside where it belongs!

 jacket insulation