Eco Lofts > Insulation & Ventilation
Simply converting your loft can increase the insulation of your property. We use a high standard of insulation in the roof and walls as standard, however, for our eco-lofts we provide the options of 'Vacuum Insulation Panels' and 'Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery'.
Vacuum Insulation Panels
Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) transform the principle of a thermos bottle to a flat panel shape.
VIPs are built from open pore materials like pressed powder boards, glass fibers or open cell organic foams. The core materials are wrapped in a high gas barrier film using a special procedure and then evacuated and sealed. The thermal conductivity of VIPs is only one tenth of the conductivity of conventional insulation materials like mineral wool or foams. Thus a 20mm vacuum panel is thermally equivalent to a 20cm thick conventional foam or fibre insulation. The advantages of VIP are:
• Up to 10 times higher insulation performance compared to conventional insulations
• Space saving but highly insulating constructions possible
• High quality and long product life time
• Space saving but highly insulating constructions possible
• High quality and long product life time
Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) transform the principle of a thermos bottle to a flat panel shape.
The air quality in sealed buildings can rapidly fall to an unacceptable level, leading to health hazards due to contaminants in the air. MVHR systems provide warmer, drier, safer and more comfortable buildings.
MVHR units solve these problems in three ways:
• Firstly, the extraction of pollutants and simultaneous intake of fresh air balances the air movement.
• Secondly, up to 90% of the heat energy in the extracted air that otherwise could be wasted is transferred to the incoming air thereby warming the room.
• Thirdly, heat recovery ventilation will dry the excessive airborne moisture, greatly reducing the humidity of moist rooms like bathrooms or laundries.
• Secondly, up to 90% of the heat energy in the extracted air that otherwise could be wasted is transferred to the incoming air thereby warming the room.
• Thirdly, heat recovery ventilation will dry the excessive airborne moisture, greatly reducing the humidity of moist rooms like bathrooms or laundries.
There are many advantages to MVHR units , including:
• Warmer, drier, safer more comfortable buildings with uncontrolled condensation eliminated.
• MVHR can reduce relative humidity to below 70% which inhibits the ideal living and breeding conditions of the house dust mite and benefiting sufferers of asthma, rhinitis, bronchial and other allergic problems.
• Reduce your energy consumption and carbon footprint.
• Controlled heat recovery meets the demands of today's life style, and sets the trend for the future of ventilation.
• MVHR can reduce relative humidity to below 70% which inhibits the ideal living and breeding conditions of the house dust mite and benefiting sufferers of asthma, rhinitis, bronchial and other allergic problems.
• Reduce your energy consumption and carbon footprint.
• Controlled heat recovery meets the demands of today's life style, and sets the trend for the future of ventilation.
