The use of eco-friendly insulation in your home is no longer a luxury, it’s now a necessity. With the regular increase in the cost of energy and electricity, everyone would agree that insulation is a vital factor in our homes. Installing eco-friendly insulation in your home is not one of those options you can conveniently do away with. Unless, of course, you want to pay a high price for your energy consumption.

I am guessing – just like me – you don’t enjoy receiving pricey bills from your energy company. Well, I don’t know anyone who likes spending a lot of money on his/her energy bills. So, you need to install eco-friendly insulation in your home in order to reduce your energy consumption and consequently your energy bills.
 
Installing eco-friendly insulation in your home helps you to conserve energy. Insulation acts as a barrier to heat gain and heat loss, especially through the floors, roofs, ceilings and walls. Insulation reduces the exchange of heat through surfaces and orifices such as walls, floors, ceilings and attic.

When a home is properly insulated, less cool air needed to keep the home cool will escape from the house during the hot summer season and less warm air needed to warm up the home will be allowed to escape from the house during the cold, chilly winter season.
 

Eco-friendly insulation – conserve energy

 
Thus, the installation of an eco-friendly insulation that helps you to conserve more warm air during the cold winter season and more cool air during the hot summer season will help to reduce the amount of energy needed to heat the home during the winter and cool the home during the summer. Home insulation is the most effective and efficient way to conserve energy in your home and make your home energy-efficient. By reducing the escape of warm air from your home to the barest minimum in the winter and the escape of cool air from your house to a very low level in the summer, you can save up to 40 percent in your heating and cooling bills.

Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems consume a lot of energy. You don’t have control over the amount of energy that the heating, ventilating and air conditioning system (HVAC) in your home consumes. However, you can influence the amount of work that can be done by HVAC system in cooling and heating your home.

Yeah, it is possible to control the amount of done by your HVAC system, even though it is extremely difficult to control the energy consumption of the HVAC system directly. Thus, by influencing the amount of work done by the HVAC system, you can indirectly influence the energy consumption of the system. When more work is done by the HVAC system, more energy will be consumed by the system for the heating and cooling of the home. On the other hand, when less work is done by the system, less energy is expended by the HVAC system in the cooling and heating of the building.
 

Heat transfer

 
There is no heat transfer in a well-insulated home. Heat does not enter into the home from the surrounding and heat does not escape from the home to the surrounding in a well-insulated home. Thus, we can safely say that heat is conserved in a well-insulated home, although a negligible amount of heat is lost.

Since heat is conserved in a properly insulated home, less heat from the outside will be able to find its way into the home during summer season. Because heat from the surrounding cannot enter into the building and heat up the home, the interior of the home will be cool during the hot summer season.

Thus, the HVAC system will not expend much energy in cooling the home, thereby consuming less energy than would have been consumed if heat was able to enter the home from the surrounding. Thus, occupants of a well-insulated home will be able to save up a lot of money on their energy bills.

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The opposite occurs during the cold winter season. Since heat cannot escape from the building to the external environment, the trapped hot air is used to heat up the building during this cold season. Thus, your heater do not need to work very hard to heat the building as there is already hot air trapped in the home to warm the home. Therefore, as your heater is not doing much work in warming up your home during the chilly winter, less energy will be consumed by the heater to warm up the home. Since less energy is expended in heating up the home, less money will be spent on energy bills. Thus, a well-insulated home drastically reduces the cost energy and electricity at every season of the year.
 

Using roof ventilation with insulation

 
When insulating your home, you should focus more on the areas where heat is likely to enter into or escape from the building. Such areas include the ceiling, the attic, the ducts, the roof, the cracks in the wall, and the gaps around the windows and doors. These are areas where heat exchanges are most likely to occur in the building. Therefore, they should be well insulated in order to conserve the heat in the building. You can also get a whirlybird air extractor installed to pull the warm air out of your ceiling.