Sentences with phrase «wall insulation systems»

The Quinn technical team will be joined by the Sto team at many of the regional seminars for an additional CPD seminar on external wall insulation systems.

This seminar will be complimented by Sto's external wall insulation CPD, which will help architects and construction professionals to understand external wall insulation systems, the different types available, and how to specify them correctly.

Earlier this summer SEI announced that, from December, external wall insulation systems must have Irish Agrément certification to be eligible for support under the Home Energy Saving scheme.

Not exact matches

According to the Government's own analysis; 541,000 FP households could benefit from cavity wall insulation, 967,000 from loft insulation, 1,180,000 from solid wall insulation and 145,000 from new central heating systems.

However the recent freeze has highlighted the need for households to protect themselves from the cold and there is still funding available for eligible households, who can benefit from simple insulation measures such as cavity wall and loft insulation, to bigger measures such as a new, efficient, central heating system.

Aside from solar panels, thicker windows, and a new heating and cooling system, buildings often need far more insulation than the walls can hold.

The report will review the condition of the heating system, plumbing, electrical system and central air conditioning system (temperature permitting), as well as the roof, attic, visible insulation, walls, ceilings, floors, windows, doors, foundation, basement, landscaping, and visible structure.

A home inspection is a visual survey of every major system and component in the house, including the roof, exterior, foundation and grading, attic and insulation, interior ceilings, walls and floors, doors and windows, major appliances, heating and cooling, electrical and plumbing systems, and many other items.

There are now additional special inspections that you can pay for to check for mould, termites, video - camera inspections of the drainage system and even infrared scanners that can check whether there is sufficient insulation or moisture or perhaps even electrical problems that may lie behind walls.

The home inspector's report will cover the condition of the home's heating system; central air conditioning system (temperature permitting); interior plumbing and electrical systems; the roof, attic and visible insulation; walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors; the foundation, basement and structural components.

The standard home inspector's report will cover the condition of the home's heating system; central air conditioning system (temperature permitting); interior plumbing and electrical systems; the roof, attic and visible insulation; walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors; the foundation, basement and structural components.

It is a fascinating system; the walls are laid up in layers, each layer a sort of horizontal truss that can be filled with insulation and electrical services.

(clockwise from top left) installation of 150 mm of PIR insulation to the original ground floor; solar thermal panels on the upgraded roof supply domestic hot water for the renovated cottage; installation of the Plustherm graphite EPS external insulation system to the gable wall; Green Building Store Ultra tripleglazed timber windows set into the external insulation layer to prevent thermal bridging; the Ultra windows in place prior to the installation of the external insulation.

U-Value: 0.10 W / m2K Walls: Weber external render on 100 mm Neopor graphite EPS insulation mechanically fixed to Amvic ICF system, comprising 63 mm Neopor graphite EPS, 150 mm concrete core (200 mm core on retaining walls), 63 mm Neopor EPS, finished inside with 15 mm Gypsum Rigidur boards on 15 mm metal topWalls: Weber external render on 100 mm Neopor graphite EPS insulation mechanically fixed to Amvic ICF system, comprising 63 mm Neopor graphite EPS, 150 mm concrete core (200 mm core on retaining walls), 63 mm Neopor EPS, finished inside with 15 mm Gypsum Rigidur boards on 15 mm metal topwalls), 63 mm Neopor EPS, finished inside with 15 mm Gypsum Rigidur boards on 15 mm metal top hat.

NHBC say that «in view of the latest knowledge provided by the Government tests, for ACM cladding in combination with certain types of insulation,» they will only now accept as demonstrating compliance: the use of materials of limited combustibility for all elements of the cladding systems on buildings over 18m, or wall constructions that have been tested.

aerogel (Cabot Nanogel ® is used as an insulation material within the LEXAN wall and ceiling system).

I cringe when I see 10kW systems on 1970's vintage slump block homes with with single pane glass an no wall insulation.

Client: Southern Housing Group Architect: PCKO Structural engineer: Conisbee Passive house consultant: Warm Project management: Calford Seaden Contractor: Stoneham Construction Mechanical contractor: Clarke's Mechanical Electrical contractor: Trevor Jones Contracting Aerated concrete blocks: H+H UK External wall insulation: Wetherby Building Systems Thermal breaks: Green Building Store / Marmox Windows: Munster Joinery Roof lights: DVS & Fakro External doors: Ecohaus Internorm Airtightness membranes: PYC Systems Window shades: Renson Gas boilers: Valiant MVHR: Zehnder

The house features: Earth sheltering on three sides with a carefully designed PAHS style insulation umbrella that uses the surrounding earth for thermal storage.Passive solar gain through the south triple glazed windows.Active solar through several Trombe walls integrated into the south wall.An extensive earth tube system that pre-heats incoming fresh air and recovers heat from outgoing stale air.A carefully designed back up wood heating system.Solar water heatingProvisions for solar electricity.The house is located at 45 degrees north latitude and has a serious winter — the total heating bill for the past two winters has been $ 70 worth of wood — about 0.6 cords.

Energy rating assessment: Energy Control Ireland Electrical: WJF Electrical Plumbing: D&M Plumbing and Heating Airtightness products: Ecological Building Systems External insulation: Clarke Eco Wall / Kingspan Floor insulation: Ballytherm Roof insulation: Isover Thermal breaks: Quinn Lite Windows & doors: Rehau, via True Windows Heat recovery ventilation: Duplexvent, via BPC Ventilation Ltd..

1 As work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block walls.

(above, clockwise from top left) the walls of the eight units at Garville Drive were constructed from traditional concrete - block cavity - walls, with 100 mm of Xtratherm full - fill Cavitytherm board between the inner and outer leafs; Gyproc Airtite Quiet plaster behind 25 mm battens for the internal service cavity prior to installation of plasterboard, with airtightness detailing of key junctions using Siga tapes also visible; 150 mm Paratherm PIR insulation on the flat roof, part of a Moy extensive green roof system; a Kingspan Environmental rainwater harvesting system feeds garden garden taps at the development.

Duerfeld's plan is to prefabricate a wall system that would combine a two - by - four inch service wall inside a two - by - ten insulation wall.

Cons: the health risks are potentially very high, ALL spray foams contain toxic ingredient Isocyanate (even those that have a percentage of soy and claim to be «eco»), because the material is so rigid closed cell systems tend to develop cracks in the material compromising the insulative envelope, many people on RV blogs are opening their walls to remodel and finding a pile of pulverized insulation in the cavities, if the ratio of parts A and B aren't mixed exactly right, the material can off gas toxic fumes perpetually, a code approved fire barrier must be installed over spray foam in living spaces (such as 1/2» drywall).

Reinforced concrete wall (175 mm) with 220 mm Wetherby phenolic external insulation board system.

This, together with the heat recovery ventilation system, the bead insulation installed in the original wall cavity (which keeps the inner wall warm), the repointing of joints, and the sheltered nature of the site, all help to mitigate the risk of interstitial condensation.

The insulation in the walls of your house doesn't impede electric power from entering and heat being generated * inside * the house anymore than greenhouse gases can stop shortwave solar energy from entering the climate system and heat being generated * below * the greenhouse blanket.

Ground floor wall: Reinforced concrete wall (175 mm) with 220 mm Wetherby phenolic external insulation board system, finished outside with blue / grey engineering brick slips at lower ground flower level and London stock brick slips at ground floor level.

Wall build - up showing Intello airtightness membrane, which was used in places to ensure airtightness, followed outside by a Wetherby external insulation system

Thermal bridging: Single leaf Quinn Lite AAC block construction wrapped in external insulation, with Catnic thermally broken lintels, windows sat in insulation layer, Geocell foamed glass foundation system and detail extending external insulation beyond wall plate level to meet roof insulation.

«The major change and biggest saving was to build the external walls as single leaf hollow block, externally insulated with Rockwool EWI systems,» says Stuart, who commissioned Wufi calculations to be certain that Rockwool — in this case variously finished with Rockwool's REDArt Silicone and BrickShield external insulation systems, which features a real brick finish — would work with single leaf block walls in this climate.

(Clockwise from left) Rockwool's REDArt Silicone external insulation system being fitted to the concrete block walls; installation of the windows flush with the external insulation layer; the exterior walls are clad with the BrickShield system to create a real brick finish.

Walls: Kabe acrylic render system, followed inside by 200 mm Xtratherm platinum EPS 100 insulation, 200 mm Quinn Lite blocks (rendered internally for airtightness with taping at junction), battens & Gyproc plasterboard.

With our super insulation (in 1986 we did double wall with FG batts & cellulose) and a Mooney wall, we could get by with a very small heating system and combine it with central air.

Client: Hastoe Housing Association Architect: Parsons & Whittley Contractor: EN Suiter & Sons Project manager: Aecom M&E designers: Engineering Services Consultancy Civil & structural engineering: Rossi Long Passive house certification: Mead Energy & Architectural Design Heating & ventilation system: Total Home Environment Electrical services: Alpha Electrical Windows: Munster Joinery Wall ties: Ancon Cavity closers: Cavalok Stainless steel fixings: Helifix Mineral wool insulation (cavity wall): Isover Mineral wool insulation (roof): Knauf XPS insulation (floor): Dow Plaster (for airtightness) & wallboard: Gypsum Airtightness products: Pro Clima Airtight window tapes: Iso Chemie MVHR / heat pump: GeWall ties: Ancon Cavity closers: Cavalok Stainless steel fixings: Helifix Mineral wool insulation (cavity wall): Isover Mineral wool insulation (roof): Knauf XPS insulation (floor): Dow Plaster (for airtightness) & wallboard: Gypsum Airtightness products: Pro Clima Airtight window tapes: Iso Chemie MVHR / heat pump: Gewall): Isover Mineral wool insulation (roof): Knauf XPS insulation (floor): Dow Plaster (for airtightness) & wallboard: Gypsum Airtightness products: Pro Clima Airtight window tapes: Iso Chemie MVHR / heat pump: Genvex

Upgraded walls: Original 232 mm thick concrete panel walls externally insulated with Baumit system including 200 mm / 250 mm Aerobord Platinum EPS insulation.

1 The Rochestown House flats prior to the refurbishment; 2 aerated concrete blocks were chosen to form new build elements, including a new third storey that allows for more generous apartment sizes; 3 new triple - glazed windows were installed outside the masonry layer so that the external insulation could wrap around them, and help prevent thermal bridging; 4 the airtightness layer was moved to the outside of the structure by taping the joints of the existing concrete panels, then extending that tape up onto the aerated blocks in the new floor; 5 Aerobord platinum EPS external insulation being fitted to the original concrete panel walls; 6 & 7 the new window frames visible here in the external insulation layer, including Rockwool fire breaks; 8 openings for exhaust and supply intakes for the new Zehnder heat recovery ventilation system, seen here prior to being insulated and airtightened; 9 installation of the Bauder bitumen roofing membrane.

Architect (planning drawings & project supervision): Mola Architecture Architect (working drawings & passive house details): Natalie Walsh Contractor: Pat Doran Construction M&E engineer: Ethos Engineering Structural engineer: Garland Consultancy Passive house consultants: Integrated Energy, Target Zero Passive house certification: Mead Consulting BER: Rate My Home Quantity surveyor (client): KMCS Quantity surveyor (contractor): RTC Surveying Electrical contractor: Jones Engineering Group Plumbing: Prospect Plumbing & Heating Underfloor heating contractor: Base Engineering Underfloor heating system: Polytherm MVHR: Flynn Heat Recovery Air - to - air heat pump: Panasonic Fan coil units: Tech Refrigeration Solar thermal: Alternative Energy Ireland Airtightness testing: Greenbuild EPS insulation: Airpacks External render: Neotherm External insulation contractor: Enda Linnane Construction Mineral wool insulation: Isover Airtightness products: Siga Breather membranes: Ecological Building Systems Floor insulation: Xtratherm Thermal breaks: Partel Low thermal conductivity blocks: Quinnlite Roof insulation & airtightness contractor: Baker & Co Windows & doors: Rationel Curtain walling: Lakeside Windows Roof windows: Tradecraft Pet door: Petwalk Polished concrete floor: Renobuild Roofing: Christy McMahon Carpentry

The walls and roof are timber panel construction (CARBONlite's PANELlite construction system), insulated between the timber structure with sheep's wool and over insulated with wood fiber insulation.

Infiltration: Air barrier system is as follows: existing basement slab with two coats of epoxy paint; taped rigid insulation on inside of foundation walls; spray foam at the rim joist; taped housewrap on above grade walls; fully adhered membrane on existing roof sheathing; transitions between roof and above grade walls made by lapping membrane over the housewrap; other transitions made using sealant.

Or recommending extremely costly geo - thermal HVAC systems for a gut / rehab of an 1800's multi-story house whose walls have 70 % windows and only cavity insulation - in New England.

The insulation in interior walls and floor, used for sound insulation and to improve the performance of the radiant heating system, is formaldehyde - free.

The electrical system in a Passive House is similar to ordinary electric systems with the exception that any protrusion through exterior walls or the roof are being sealed for air - tightness and uninterrupted insulation.

The exterior walls of the Konkol Residence are composed of an 11 - inch (28 - centimeter) insulated concrete form (ICF) encased within 11 inches (28 centimeters) of exterior insulation and finishing system (EIFS), producing an overall insulation value of R - 70.

(Above) The houses are constructed of single leaf hollow block walls finished outside with Rockwool's REDArt Silicone and BrickShield external insulation systems, including 200 mm Rockwool semi-rigid insulation.

The house's external walls are insulated with a Permarock system including 180 mm of phenolic foam insulation.

With homes being turned around to world class comfort, health and energy performance standards in a twelve week build schedule, Silken Park takes a disarmingly simple approach: single leaf hollow block construction sat on an insulated foundation system, the walls wrapped in a generous layer of high density Rockwool external insulation, with a sand and cement render internally acting as the airtight layer.

• Particularly effective in roofing, repairing, re-roofing and insulating pre-installed roofs for commercial projects in a timely, organized and team oriented manner • Specialized expertise in EPDM, TPO, PVC and shingling • Skilled in carrying out maintenance and repair of mechanical, electrical and other physical structures • Well - versed in painting of structures, performing carpentry work, repairing plumbing fixtures and woodwork • Excellent physical stamina, ability to climb a ladder, bend, stoop and work in confined spaces • Special talent for metal roofing construction including flashing, wall panels, fascia and soffit • Apt at using various tools needed for cutting hammering and fastening roofing materials • Track record of completing projects in strict accordance with job specifications, project layout and applicable safety guidelines • Profound skills in installation of low sloped roof systems including TPO, BUR and bitumen • Proficient in carrying - out general roof repairs, exterior siding adjustments and HVAC installation repairs • Particularly effective in removal and installation of all types of commercial roof systems including slate, tile and asphalt • Well practiced in covering roofs with topping material including sheets, PVC and spray foam • Adept at utilizing manual and electric tools and maintaining the same in a functional order • Efficient in laying and adhering insulation with metal fasteners or binding adhesives • Expert in cutting stripes of flashing and fitting into angles formed by walls, vents and intersecting roof surfaces • Firsthand experience in carrying out regular preventive maintenance of pre-installed roofing systems • Substantial knowledge of various roofing systems and associated installation protocols • Familiar with OSHA workplace safety guidelines • Excellent listening skills with profound ability to follow verbal and written instructions to book • Great attention to detail with proven skills in interpreting and implementing given drawings and blueprints with accuracy • Strong numeracy skills, apt at generating accurate cost estimations for given projects

Built commercial size gambrel sheds for San Joaquin County Mary Graham Hall Framed out walls, doors, floor joist, installed subfloor, siding, built trusses Installed residential Romex electrical wiring system, including junction boxes, Installed residential DWV and supply line plumbing Hanged, textured and finished drywall Spray, hand textured, and painted in a residential setting Installed batt insulation Installed tile flooring Read / interpret blueprints.

A typical inspector's report will cover the condition of the home's heating system; central air conditioning system (temperature permitting); interior plumbing and electrical systems; the roof, attic and visible insulation; walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors; and the foundation, basement and structural components.