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An introduction to solid wall insulation

Posted by Tim Pullen on 3rd December 2009 at 2:13 pm

An introduction to solid wall insulation

A third of the heat lost from a house is through the walls according to the Energy Saving Trust. An uninsulated, 225mm solid brick wall will have a U-value of 2.23W/m2. Adding just 50mm of PUR (Kingspan or similar) insulation will reduce that to just 0.4W/m2. Bear in mind that the current building r…

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