Stud frame buildings with cavities
of CORBOND® Isolation do work - no matter what. Hot climate, cold
climate, wet or dry, windy or calm, heating or air conditioning -
no matter what.
Builders and building scientists
know that the greatest enemy of building efficiency is air
infiltration and movement of air into insulation. The enemy of
building longevity is hidden moisture condensation causing mildew
and decay, not to mention the threat to health and comfort caused
by these agents. Picture CORBOND® Climate Isolation System™ - the
solution to these concerns of insulation contractors, builders,
designers and building owners.
While
conventional fiber insulation in the right conditions may achieve
thermal insulation with some success, it by its nature of using
the air to insulate cannot isolate the air of the two climates.
Air is mixed into the fiber with each change in outdoor
temperature or wind condition - compromising thermal quality. Air
contains moisture which when cooled, seeks to drop out on a
surface as condensation. This occurs at building sheathing in the
heating season and at the back of sheetrock in the
air-conditioning season. Efforts to solve these problems have
included caulking, house wraps and sealing tape, vapor retarders,
venting and foam sheathing, together endeavoring to achieve what
we really need - isolation.
CORBOND® successfully achieves
thermal isolation, air isolation and moisture isolation. Both the
indoor and outdoor climate are effectively displaced out of the
cavity permanently as the CORBOND® is installed in its seamless
fully adhered form.
It is the complete isolation of
the interior climate from the exterior climate that describes how
the CORBOND® system successfully deals with the complexities of
building insulation operating in all climates. Climate isolation
is the full separation of the climates.
CORBOND® works
by not allowing the interior climate (heating or cooling) to mix
with the exterior climate (hot or cold). As seasons
change and heating turns to air-conditioning, CORBOND® is
unaffected by the reversal of moisture drives. It works both
ways!
