Thermal insulation: what advantages it offers and how to get it

Thermal insulation and insulation are essential to enjoy adequate living comfort during the coldest periods of the year

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Thermal insulation e insulation are essential to enjoy adequate living comfort during the coldest periods of the year. If implemented correctly, in fact, they allow you to optimize the use of heating systems, so as to reduce the costs of use without sacrificing the quality of life inside your home. Insulation interventions, in general, serve to improve the energy efficiency of the structures, so as to reduce or eliminate the thermal problems responsible for the poor performance of a single room or of the entire housing unit. In this article we will see, in particular, which are the main ones insulation problems that can manifest themselves in the home and how they can be remedied.

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Heat dispersion

A house that is not properly insulated tends to disperse the heat product inside. In other words, the lack of effective insulation prevents the structures from maintaining a certain temperature, except after intensive and prolonged use of the heating systems. This can happen both because the walls do not retain heat, letting it dissipate outside, and because windows and doors are not well insulated, due to drafts or materials that do not comply with the highest standards of thermal insulation.

This phenomenon has two main implications: increases the energy expenditure, caused by the continuous use of radiators and other heating systems (which in turn increases costs and weighs on the family budget) and worsens the quality of living comfort, since it makes it easier to stabilize the internal temperature.

Insulation problems can derive from certain structural and constructive characteristics of the building, such as for example design errors or use of poor quality materials. Geometric or material differences can give rise to the so-called 'thermal bridges', i.e. punctual or linear areas in which there is an irregularity of the heat flow between inside and outside.

Salubrity of the air

Poor quality thermal insulation affects the quality of living comfort in another way as well, namely by affecting the healthiness of the air. ineffective insulation, in fact, can favor the accumulation of humidity which, in the long run, contributes to the formation of mold. This possibility poses a potential danger to the tenants of the house, as it can cause allergic reactions or breathing problems.

How to solve insulation problems

Thermal insulation is one of the main problems of housing (and not only). Also for this reason, over time, specialized companies have developed a wide range of materials and solutions that exploit increasingly modern and cutting-edge technologies. To improve the insulation of your home, it is possible to intervene on various aspects and elements of a not only structural nature. Before seeing in detail what are the main interventions that can be implemented to solve the thermal efficiency problems of a building, it is good to underline how, in order to obtain a quality result, it is always advisable to try to move towards the best option for your needs: the specialized site sg-lifeupgrade.com, for example, is an excellent source to draw on to identify materials and professional solutions forthermal insulation.

Having said that, among the main interventions that can be carried out to improve insulation there are the replacement of windows and doors (to install insulating glass and eliminate drafts) and the application of a external thermal coat. The latter represents a complex and expensive work which, on the other hand, ensures the best possible result in terms of thermal insulation. Alternatively, it is possible to opt for internal works such as the installation of a insulating screed (even in the presence of underfloor heating) or reconstruction of the plasters (to replace the existing ones with breathable and / or high-performance insulating materials), to be finished with water-based paints for interiors with the same characteristics. Finally, it is possible to opt for the preparation of plasterboard structures (there are sheets capable of reducing VOCs and preventing the formation of mold) which also offer adequate acoustic insulation.