Using ThermaCote to insulate your home is like wrapping it in an emergency foil blanket to keep heat in because they both function in a similar way when it comes to heat retention:
1. Reflecting Heat Back: Just like an emergency foil blanket reflects your body heat back toward you to prevent warmth from escaping, ThermaCote reflects radiant heat back toward the interior of your home. This helps keep the warmth generated inside from escaping through walls, ceilings, and other surfaces. Essentially, the coating acts as a thermal barrier, bouncing heat back inside rather than letting it dissipate.
2. Minimising Heat Loss: Both ThermaCote and foil blankets are designed to reduce heat loss. In a home, heat often escapes through walls, roofs, and other surfaces, especially in winter. ThermaCote slows down this process, just as a foil blanket would slow the rate at which your body loses heat in a cold environment. This makes your home more thermally efficient, reducing the demand for constant heating.
3. Insulating Properties: While a foil blanket relies on thin reflective material to trap heat close to your body, ThermaCote is engineered with specific insulating properties to prevent heat from moving through your home’s surfaces. In technical terms, it reduces the conductive heat transfer, keeping the warmth inside. This is similar to how a foil blanket retains heat by reflecting infrared radiation, stopping it from escaping.
4. Creating a Protective Layer: Just as an emergency foil blanket forms a protective, heat-retentive layer around your body, ThermaCote forms a seamless coating for your home. This coating creates a barrier that helps trap heat in, ensuring a more comfortable living environment, especially in colder months and significant savings on your energy costs too!
All this with just a 1mm application. Keep the Heat In!
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