Year after year during the summer, homeowners experience the same kinds of issues — including feeling like their home is a hot house. However, once winter hits, it’s almost like that same home turns into a walk-in freezer.
If you’ve been experiencing the same problems in your home, there is something you can do about it.
How Heat Transfer Works in the Home
There are a few types of heat transfer, and by understanding how they work, you’ll soon see why your home might be feeling so uncomfortable. Controlling conduction and convection are essential to making your home feel more comfortable.
Heat conduction--the transfer of energy across materials--is slowed with insulation, so during the summer, the heat from outside won’t make its way into your air conditioned home. Convection is the transfer of energy by air flow. Think of drafty door or corner of a room! With air sealing, additional hot air from the outside won’t come in. Both convection and conduction play the same role in winter, but in the opposite direction — letting the indoor heat escape into the freezing outdoors. With convection loss in the winter, as the warm air slips out of your home negative air pressure is created and cold outside air is pulled in. A double whammy!
Why Is My House So Hot in the Summer?
Without any measures in place to prevent heat transfer, your home will be left feeling like a hot house all summer long. Then in the winter, it’ll turn into the likes of a walk-in freezer.
To understand where heat is coming in during the summer and leaving in the winter, a home energy audit is a great place to start, essential in many instances. This comprehensive assessment will measure the amount of air leakage with a blower door test and locate inadequate insulation with thermal camera imaging. Once you’re armed with the results, you can make upgrades that will improve your home’s comfort during every season.
Comfort for Both Summer & Winter with Insulation
Air sealing and adding insulation throughout (especially in the walls, attic, and basement or crawl space), will stop heat transfer from turning your home into an uncomfortable space. However, comfort won’t be the only benefit you’ll notice — you’ll also experience the following:
Significantly reduced air conditioning and heating bills
A lowered home carbon footprint
Extended HVAC system lifespan
Elimination of ice dams during the winter
If you’re tired of having your house feel like an oven during the hot months and an ice palace as soon as the temperatures drop, Assured Insulation Solutions can help. Our team of experts can turn your Illinois house into a comfortable and energy efficient home.