What Are Radiant Barrier Chips?

What are radiant barrier chips and how can they help my home? Keeping a comfortable interior climate in your home could be a challenging task especially if you live in an area of the world with extreme weathers or with the ones that often varies.

During summers the heat from the goes inside your house through the roof that's why most houses install in insulation to help slow down the heat from entering your home. In winter season, the season travels rapidly upwards and escapes in your attic.

Attic insulation has become a trend to many homes because it helps slow down the heat whether it be entering or escaping your home. However, this does not totally solve the problem. By slowing down the travel time of the heat, it does not prevent it from entering your escaping at all. Radiant barrier chips are plastics covered with highly reflective surfaces on both sides. They are so fantastic that during the summer time when the heat tries to go enter your home through your attic, it reflects the heat back to its source.

In wintertime, it functions the opposite because the underside of the chip bounces back the heat that comes up through your attic insulation and tries to escape through the atmosphere.

Installing radiant barrier chips is pretty easy and simple. All you need to do is to have a machine that functions similar to that of a leaf blower. It would suck up the heat from the cardboard box and broadcast or randomly scatter it on the attic insulation because that insulation alone would not prevent the heat from traveling in and out of the house.

Dusts are known to affect the effectiveness or the reflectivity of every thing. It is therefore advisable to install not only a layer of these radiant barrier chips. Instead, take about 7 to 8 layers of them in your attic so that even if the top layer has too much dust, the lower layers will take charge and stay as reflective and shiny as it was the day it was installed.

Autor: Martin Applebaum

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By M. Applebaum

Added: September 20, 2009
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