Radiant Barrier Chips

It’s about time that you learnt about radiant barrier chips and how these could help your home. Those living in that part of the world that offers extremes of weather know how difficult it is to mange and maintain a comfortable temperature within the home at affordable prices. Even if you were in an area that has frequent changes of weather, you would have experienced the same difficulty.

In summers you have heat coming in from the roof. As a result the inside temperature rises and your cooling mechanism has to work harder to maintain internal temperature at comfortable levels. Thus, providing insulation on the roof restricts incoming heat. In winters the reverse action takes place. The internal air heated and maintained at comfortable level, tends to escape thru the roof and the same insulation retards its escape from your attic.

For reason explained above, it’s imperative to provide insulation to roofing. It slows down the process of entering or escaping the heat from a given area. Mind you, it only slows down the process of heat transfer, and that is not the best way of retaining heat within your area. Here come in radiant barrier chips. They are made of plastic that has highly reflective surfaces on both its sides. As a consequence of this reflective characteristic, these chips are able to reflect heat that would have otherwise entered your attic in summers.

During winters, the other side of the same chip with similar characteristic reflects back to room, the heat that would have otherwise escaped thru the roof.

Installation of radiant barrier chips is very simple and easy. It needs equipment the functioning of which is akin to a leaf blower. This would suck up heat from the cardboard box and randomly disperse it on the attic insulation, as that insulation alone is incapable of preventing the heat from getting in or out of the house.

Continued and prolonged exposure to dust causes these chips to lose their effectiveness. Therefore it is desirable to have more than one layer of these radiant barrier chips. Provide seven to eight layers of these in your attic. Doing so ensures that even if the top layer loses its effectiveness, the layer below continues to provide the necessary service.