Thermal Comfort
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers states that thermal comfort is achieved when 80% of a building’s occupants are satisfied with the environmental conditions. While it is extremely challenging to satisfy everyone all the time, particularly when people have varying metabolisms and methods of dress, there are some things that can be done to achieve a higher level of satisfaction.
One of those areas has to do with maintaining a consistent temperature environment. By installing spray foam insulation and roofing you’ll go a long way toward achieving this goal. By establishing a solidly insulated perimeter for your building, you help ensure that the peripheral areas of your structure remain at a much more even temperature and experience fewer wild temperature swings.
These temperature swings are typically caused by the outer areas of the structure transferring heat quickly. Air is a fairly good insulator and so it may take some time before the temperature change reaches the sensor, meaning that the temperature may change substantially near the periphery of the building before it is detected in the inner areas of the building. This means the HVAC system is always playing catch up and the external areas of the building are less comfortable.
Spray foam insulation slows down the heat transfer process, allowing your HVAC system to sense changes before they’ve changed dramatically in the periphery, and thus stay on top of and minimize these fluctuations.
