Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier is an exciting product that can cut your heating and cooling expenses by up to 20% or more with a small one time investment.

Therma-Shield blocks heat buildup in the summertime and minimizes heat loss in the winter time through the walls and ceiling of your home which can lead to thousands of dollars in energy savings.

It has many other amazing uses and benefits as well.

What Is the Problem
With Utilities?

They Keep Going Up--
From 6 to 50 % Per Year

It seems like the price of our utilities keep going up all the time.  We just don't seem to have any control over them!  It is hard to believe that there are parts of the nation that suffer up to 50% rate increases!  The only thing we can do is help lower the costs in our own homes.

This picture shows you where your energy dollars go in an average home.  We should be a little more careful with turning off the lights around the house when we aren't in the room.  The utility companies have suggested that we put a blanket around our hot water heater.  This will lower the cost of heating our water in our home up to 9%.  It is amazing how much hot water we all use in our homes.  But it is still heating and cooling our home that uses the biggest percentage of our energy.

The first thing we have to understand is that there is a basic law of nature that says heat always transfers towards cold.  Most people, like I did, thought the cold came into the house to keep the furnace running.  It is just the opposite!  In winter, the heat getting out of our homes is what keeps the furnace running.  In summer, it is the heat coming in our homes that keeps the air-conditioner running.

Heat is Transferred Four Ways:

The four ways heat is transferred are conduction, convection, radiation, and infiltration. 

Conduction is simply when two solid objects touch each other, heat is transferred through the objects.  A good example is when the stove gets hot, heat is transferred to the teapot. 

Radiation is the most comfortable type of heat.  It travels in a straight line till it is reflected or absorbed.  Everything radiates heat, your bodies, chairs, tables, walls, and drapes. Everything collects heat and radiates it away.  An example of radiant heat is a quartz space heater.  Remember the radiators we used to have in every room?  They would radiate heat in all directions.  It was just as warm on the floor as it was through the rest of the house.

Infiltration is heat transferred by air movement through leaky doors, windows, outlets, etc.  The tighter the house the less heat transferred. 

In summer time the percentages change: Conduction stayed the same (same drywall touching 2x4's); Convection is less than 1%; Radiant heat gain is the main reason the air-conditioner runs.  On a 90 degree day the shingles on the house can get up to 175 degrees, conducting heat into your home and keep

We have learned the biggest reason for the air-conditioner to run in the summer is radiant heat gain.  And in the winter the furnace runs to combat radiant heat loss.  Insulation, new windows, new siding, and caulking take care of conduction and convection, but very little of radiant heat loss or gain.

Our solution is Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier.  One of the best ways to bake a turkey on the holidays is to put aluminum foil over the breast of the turkey.  The foil will keep out the direct heat to enable it to be nice and moist.  I think we have all been to a restaurant and had a baked potato that was so hot we couldn't eat it right away!  The heat was held in the potato by the aluminum foil.  Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier reflects heat out (like the aluminum foil on the turkey) in the summer and reflects heat in (like foil around the baked potato) in the winter.

This picture represents your attic without Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier. The heat comes down through the attic into your home and kicks the air-conditioner on. Why isn't the insulation holding out the heat?  We need to remember how insulation works.  It only absorbs the heat to try to stop it.  Insulation works like a sponge with water.  Once the sponge is full of water it becomes useless.  When the insulation is full of heat it, too, becomes useless.  What happens to your air-conditioner when you get 2 or 3 hot days in a row?  Answer: It runs all the time! Did you ever ask yourself this question?  Why is the air-conditioner running at 3 AM when the sun went down at 8 PM that night?  Answer: The sun goes down at 8 PM and if it is cool enough the insulation starts releasing heat, not only up, but all directions, even down into your home.  Before it                                                                                                                       releases all the heat here comes the                                                                                                                       heat again the next morning and adds                                                                                                                       to it!

Instead of allowing all that heat in your home, you need to put Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier in the attic to keep the heat from getting into the insulation.  If you can keep the insulation cooler, your home should be cooler, too.  Saving you money and keeping you more comfortable.  Every satellite that goes into outer space has a shiny protective barrier on it.  The Astronauts space suit keeps the body heat in, and reflects the sun's heat away.  Firemen have shiny protective suits, so they can be closer to fires to get them out faster.

Instead of allowing all the heat out of your home, you need to put Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier in the attic to keep the heat in your home.  Saving you money and keeping you more comfortable.  Still, "Every btu that comes out of the furnace eventually gets out of the home".  But with Therma-Shield Radiant Barrier in the attic, it will keep the heat in longer, recycling the heat.  We should all be into recycling any thing!