MakeHeat » insulating http://makeheat.com Make Heat, Make Energy! Make it Yourself! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:27:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Foam It Green Polyurethane Spray Foam Kits – Cart http://makeheat.com/2009/10/25/foam-it-green-polyurethane-spray-foam-kits-cart/ http://makeheat.com/2009/10/25/foam-it-green-polyurethane-spray-foam-kits-cart/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:46:48 +0000 Andrew http://makeheat.com/?p=897 Making heat is only part of the battle.  If I had a screen house with a solar air heater, it wouldn’t be keeping me warm: you have to keep the heat you make.  There are several products out on the market that allow you to put foam into your pre-existing walls to insulate and seal cracks.  This is the first one I found, and plan to follow with more.

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]]> http://makeheat.com/2009/10/25/foam-it-green-polyurethane-spray-foam-kits-cart/feed/ 0 Dollar Wise: With radiant barriers, high expectations for lower bills http://makeheat.com/2009/03/11/dollar-wise-with-radiant-barriers-high-expectations-for-lower-bills/ http://makeheat.com/2009/03/11/dollar-wise-with-radiant-barriers-high-expectations-for-lower-bills/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:50:11 +0000 Andrew http://makeheat.com/?p=359 TX, USA – I always thought in terms of fluid dynamics when it came to heat – a fancy way of saying I wasn’t thinking clearly.  Here’s a great article, and what I learned today (you should learn at least one new thing every day, and relearn three). …”In simple terms, heat travels in three ways: convection, conduction and radiation,” Reed said. “The radiant barrier blocks the radiant spectrum; additional insulation slows conduction of heat into the house, and we put in another 20 eave vents and replaced our passive spinning turbines on the roof with solar-powered vents. That solves the convection problem.” …

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