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Did my complete exterior of my house this summer in 2" p2000, so far it has been -10 C and have infloor heat in basement and a furnace for upstairs, the furnace has yet to be turned on as the heat from the infloor heat is easily heating the complete house to 23C. Last year furnace would definately be running at this temp.
ReplyDeleteWhat is P2000 or Proactive going to do about all the false claims in the past, the 1 inch that was a R-28, now people are seeing that it is not a R-28
ReplyDeleteGood question?? What is the actual R value of this product and how does it work under concrete when you have the foil facing the ground? would that not be conduction and correct me if I am wrong but don't you need an air space for reflective insulations to work??
ReplyDeleteRick T
What is the R value of a thermos bottle? I think most of us know that it is high.If it is a good one it can range from a R 240+.Not bad when you consider that there is no insulation involved (glass or stainless steel)with reflectives and a vacuum or a lack of air between the inner and outer conductive skins is all there is.If we fill the thermos up with hot coffee and submerse the thermos in ice water,will it make it fail?Once again we know that a vacuum or lack of air stops conduction,but we also understand that the two differentials in water temperatures are also radiating,trying to go through a vacuum,thus the radiant barriers do their job.Where is the air space for the reflective as conductors are directly on the reflective surface?The key is the lack of air or vacuum which is the best isolator.If the thermos had compressed air in the space,the thermos would be useless.Air is the way we move heat energy.Would this look like bubble foil?With the bubble products you need air spaces for the reflectives because air is a conductor of heat. P2000 is the opposite of bubble foil.It uses expanded polystyrene with a limiting oxygen percentage that exceeds 40%+(lack of air)between the closed cells in the core and 2 non conductive reflective barriers. Ask engineers about heat energy and how it moves and some will say that a thermos is contrary to the laws of thermal dynamics.When we do thermal imaging we are measuring two different temperatures radiating off of conductors.We do not live in a steady state world,so isolating and testing for more than conduction should be a priority.Perhaps we should make insulation work like a thermos.O wait a minute,what does P2000 look like,a thermos????
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how would this product work on the inside of concrete basement walls? Would I need a fire retardant covering?
ReplyDeleteP2000 is an excellent choice for isolating ground temperature(concrete trying to conduct the same temperature as it's surroundings)from inside temperatures of a basement.A every day example of using the right material for the job is in the inside of a bathroom toilet tank.Ground temperature water is brought into the porcelain tank,were the potential of dew point (condensation) can occur on the outside of the tank.Closed cell EPS is used right in the water against the tank to isolate the temperature differentials that cause the dew points.It should be noted that XPS is not used for this application as it is expanded with gases,when the gas escapes a volume change occurs.A basement sees a lot of the same temperature changes and conditions.
ReplyDeleteOur NBC calls us by code to place a 15 minute fire rated material(ie. drywall,plywood) over insulation for residential use,so covering any insulation is a must.
need to insulate my garage, the outside is already finished, what is the best way to insulate from the inside. also, if i 'top up' the R value with fiberglass insulation, do i use double foil or single foil. if it is single foil, i presume you face foil to the outside.
ReplyDeleteI am toying with the idea of removing the vinyl siding and putting up 1"or or 3/8" p2000 on the outside and then insulating the interior as well with a R20ish. What is going to give me the best and 2nd best insulating value. thanks
If I want to install p2000 on the outside of my house would I run it from the footings all the way up to the eave so I get a better seal between all the floors? I would put it on the ceiling then a 3/4" air space then drywall. Do I need to put vapor barrier on the inside of my walls since the p2000 is a vapor barrier and installed on the outside tight against the osb on a 2x6 wall with R-20 batts, then covered with drywall(double vapor barrier)? Thanks
ReplyDeleteWe have a stick frame basement that got 3 inches of water this summer with 7 inches of heavy rain combined with a power outage so our sump pump could not keep up. We have kraft backed fiberglass insulation, plastic vapor barrier and drywall. They got soaked at the bottom up about a foot, so we have cut out the bottom foot of drywall, plastic and wet insulation and have fans going to dry out the wood framing. We noticed in the bathroom that there was water at the top of the wall too between the vapor barrier and the kraft paper was soggy wet?
ReplyDeleteThe fiberglass insulation was wet on the top 3 inches in about a 5 foot section on that wall too, so we cut a foot of insulation off the top too.
Is it possible for the moisture to wick up that high from the floor or do we probably have other water problems?
Well, we are now trying to decide what would be the best options for the future. We don't want to cut the foot of drywall off again, so won't replace that will drywall, so will look for some sort of covering or paneling that we can screw on that is moisture resistant.
Not sure what to do about the walls we cut off the vapor barrier to access the insulation and if it is really necessary for the bottom 1 foot.
We are not going to replace all of the insulation and pull down all of the drywall except in the bathroom.
How would your products have done in our situation if they had been flooded with 3 inches of water with drywall covering it?
What products would we use for stick frame basement foundation?
Would everything dry out without removing it or would we still need to pull it out if it got wet?
Could we put it in the bottom 1 foot and have it work okay with the fiberglass insulation above or would it be better to stick with putting back in fiberglass insulation in those walls and just using p2000 in the bathroom walls?
What should we do about the plastic vapor barrier being cut off the bottom 1 foot? Will we have problems if we don't replace it?
We don't want to get a moldly musty basement. Yet would like to have a better solution if this ever happens again.
Thanks for your advice,
Kris