Go Green And Insulate Your Own Home
Until you have lived abroad, you have no clue of how fortunate we are in South Africa to enjoy the lovely mild weather conditions we have got. Our homes have never been built or designed to tolerate severe cold conditions. Instead we are without a doubt spoilt with the endless sunshine and many outside enjoyment possibilities our extensive warm summer months offer to us and also it has never really been necessary to insulate our homes against harsh winter months.
This kind of thing was just for those who lived in particularly frigid weather with temperatures way below zero degrees. However, as global warming has moved on around the globe, it’s now becoming essential in South Africa to insulate your home in an effort to eliminate the emission of hazardous greenhouse toxic gases from heating and cooling appliances at your house. In addition, as a result of intense heat we’re beginning to encounter in our summer season, air conditioners are used a lot more and are also being set up in private houses. They’ve got things called refrigerants which damage the global ozone layer. And so, how do we insulate our family homes and be a part of the ‘green culture’ in our country? We must become smarter and arm ourselves with as much knowledge as possible to make sure that when we insulate our houses, we’re following the ‘green specifications’. So long as we are aware of the link between our family area and our living planet, we are on the right course.
Unfortunately in America, they have a much more serious problem. The majority of their electricity comes from the burning of fossil fuel. Natural gas can also be used at certain power plants. These two sources of power give off hazardous levels of greenhouse gases. Luckily in South Africa, we do not have the difficulty of extreme cold, but we do have the reverse in that our seasons are becoming warmer.
What lots of people don’t understand is that insulating material has dual functions of warming and cooling your home, in addition to being a powerful barrier to noise. So for warming up your home, you must understand how the exchange of energy works from a warm place to a chilly place. For example, for those who have a double story home, the rate at which the 2nd floor area warms up is dependent upon the R-value, which is the resistance of the materials it has to filter through to get there. Insulation in required within our homes to increase the R-value, or the permeability of the substances that separate hot and cold areas.
With climate change and the media harping on about our planets atmosphere and how we have to reduce our carbon footprint and the side effects of all these toxic waste gases, perhaps it is time to re-evaluate the way you heat your home and to consider the alternative ideas for cooling it down in summer. You will find that to insulate is really a total solution for both extremes of climatic conditions, and if you have teenagers, you have the added advantage of being able to screen out the dreadful sound of their deafening music by insulating. When you insulate your home, you automatically lower your energy consumption and reduce your electricity bill. Additionally you get a lifelong guarantee, as the insulation is said to boost the resale valuation of your home. How much more can you want - making money and reducing your impact on global warming simultaneously?
