Alamance Insulation and Gutters has been proudly serving the Triad area for over 20 years. Located in Burlington, North Carolina, we provide quality insulation and gutters for our clients across central North Carolina, including Greensboro, Burlington, Mebane, Hillsborough, and High Point. We offer many services that will help keep your home and family safe for years to come. Our insulation services include attic insulation, radiant barriers, air sealing, blown insulation, and spray foam insulation. When it comes to moisture barriers, we also insulate crawl space doors, sealed crawlspaces, and encapsulated crawlspaces.
On our last two blog posts, we’ve been covering the importance of insulation. From the National Insulation Association, here are a few more reasons to insulate your home:
Personnel Protection
A well-designed and insulated system will protect personnel by:
- Lowering hot surface temperatures; and
- Preventing accidental burns.
Thermal insulation is one of the most effective means of protecting workers from burns resulting from contact with hot or extremely cold piping and equipment. For hot surfaces especially, insulation reduces the surface temperature of piping or equipment to a safer level, resulting in increased worker safety and the avoidance of worker downtime due to injury. With today’s specification tools, it’s very easy to calculate the insulation thickness needed to bring the surface temperature of your piping and equipment to safe levels.
In addition to the safety benefits of insulation, NIA member companies take job site safety very seriously and strive to meet the highest standards to protect their own personnel.
Fire Protection
Used in combination with other materials, insulation helps provide fire protection in firestop systems, grease and air ducts, and in electrical and communications conduits and cables.
Improved Appearance
Insulation covering exposed air conditioning and plumbing lines gives a finished appearance to a building.
Noise Control with Insulation
A well-insulated system helps reduce noise levels by:
- Absorbing emitted sound;
- Meeting OSHA requirements by eliminating sound at the source; and
- Improving the work environment by improving worker morale and communication.
This is one benefit that’s tough to put a price on, but we all know it happens. Noise can seriously impact a worker’s health and productivity—so much so that OSHA does in fact have noise standards in place. Manufacturing environments can be extremely noisy and cause major health problems if noise abatement and protection are not dealt with. In addition, noise produced by appliances, piping, heating and air conditioning systems, phones, radios, and even by talking are major reasons people are dissatisfied with their work place.
Insulation materials are used to encase or enclose noise generating sources and reduce noise to acceptable levels so that stress, lost time, and dissatisfaction do not impact the employee and/or the product you are trying to get out the door.
Insulation reduces the level of both exterior and interior noise by preventing transmission of exterior sounds to the interior of the building, and absorbing reverberating sounds within the building.
FAQ: How and Why Is Insulation Used to Control Sound?
Sound attenuation, or the limiting of sound propagation from one area to another, requires the application of special and standard insulation materials to encase or enclose the noise-generating source, forming a sound barrier between the source and the surrounding area.
The purposes of applying sound-attenuation materials are to:
- Reduce obnoxious noise levels emitting from machines, equipment, pipe lines, or enclosures;
- Reduce general noise level in plant areas;
- Provide for better work conditions; and
- Comply with noise level standards of OSHA and EPA.
Increase Space Efficiency with Insulation
A well-insulated system will:
- Reduce capacity and size of new mechanical equipment;
- Reduce capital cost of equipment;
- Reduce space required for equipment; and
- Reduce maximum electrical loads, meaning reduced electrical rates for industrial and commercial users.