Radiant Barrier & Attic Efficiency in Richmond, VA
The hot summers in Virginia can turn your home into an oven if you don’t have proper insulation. F.H. Furr Plumbing, Heating, Air Conditioning & Electrical can apply a radiant barrier in your attic to protect your home from radiant heat and the sun’s punishing rays. Radiant barriers effectively reduce the amount of radiant heat entering your home, which helps keep your attic, ducts, and other spaces cooler, reducing the energy required to cool your home throughout the summer. If you’re ready to cool your attic and improve your home’s energy efficiency, partner with F.H. Furr.
What Is a Radiant Barrier & How Does It Work?
Radiant barriers are aluminum-colored coatings classified as Interior Radiation Control Coatings by the ASTM. Water-based and with a low-emissivity, radiant barrier coatings are applied to plywood, OSB, and plasterboard. Once applied, they lower the surface emissivity to 0.25 or less, effectively blocking 75% of radiant heat from entering the home.
This is crucial as wood, brick, and plasterboard, by themselves, have high emissivities and can allow heat to penetrate the home. Applying a radiant barrier to the underside of the roof deck as well as the gable ends of your home protects the home from radiant heat, thus helping lower your annual cooling costs and significantly improving your home’s energy efficiency.
The Benefits of Radiant Barriers
There are plenty of reasons we recommend radiant barriers for Virginia homes. Our Radiant Barrier Ultra is a low-VOC, water-based solution with virtually no odor. In addition to offering the lowest emissivity available, it provides many advantages and benefits, including:
- Lower utility bills and reduce the carbon footprint of your home
- Makes your home feel cooler and more comfortable
- Ideally suited for our climate
- Environmentally friendly
- It will not lose its effectiveness over time
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Radiant Barrier Installation
Our radiant barriers are applied in liquid form that dries to a breathable film. Once installed, the non-conductive film won’t contribute to moisture retention, nor will it interfere with attic-mounted antennas, Wi-Fi, or phone reception. Our installation teams can spray the barrier to the desired surface(s) using a highly pressurized system and nap rollers to ensure a thorough, even coating. It typically takes a few hours to apply a single coat, and we’ll work closely with you to schedule the installation at a time that’s most convenient for you.
Depending on temperature and humidity conditions, it can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days for the coating to fully cure. We can install radiant barriers in the following areas:
- Roofs: We can apply radiant barriers to your wood, brick, and plasterboard to the underside of your attic. Application here is vital as this is where most radiant heat enters the home.
- Radiant heating system: Our technicians can apply radiant barriers as a heat reflector behind your wood stove. We can also apply them to commercial structures on walls adjacent to ceiling-mounted heating systems.
- Vent-skin construction: We can apply radiant barriers to vent-skin roofs. We apply the coating on the inside of the outer roof skin
- Sidewalls: While less effective on sidewalls since most radiant heat is transferred from above, it is possible to apply radiant barriers to sidewalls in structures with limited insulation or significant sun exposure.
Why Choose Us?
At F.H. Furr, we hire “Absolutely the Best” to deliver exceptional service. When you choose our team, we protect your home as if it were our own. We offer industry exclusive guarantees, flat-rate pricing, and a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee. We are committed to helping improve the energy efficiency and comfort of your home. We will always help you find the best solutions for enhancing your comfort and shrinking your utility bills down to size.
Call F.H. Furr today to schedule radiant barrier installation services in Richmond, VA.
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