Energy Efficient Home

There are several important things to know and remember when building an energy efficient house. This is a thermal insulation air mass disturbance and that windows and holes in the walls of the house lost the same amount of energy.

In other countries they talk about the U-factor. U stands for the use of factors. And this is using a combination of factors R factor and the ability to hold air disturbance. Therefore, actual usage factor is more useful than a tight R factor. As an example of a concrete wall has a low R factor and the high U factor if the timber is made to fit tightly together. A concrete house has a low resistance factor for concrete easy to radiate thermal energy. To properly protect the concrete walls to isolate the outer wall. And this brings us to thermal energy mass.That’s for housing insulation system.Windows is a big spender. Each glass has a resistance factor of less than one. A window has thermopane resistance factor of about two or three, including airspace. More windows have a more expensive home that is hot. Triple pane windows have a resistance factor of about five. A curtain covering the window completely will increase resistance factors around. Therefore, the curtains drawn will greatly increase the ability of insulation for houses.

Thermal mass is the amount of weight that reaches a certain temperature and want to stay on temperature. As an example I came home with brick floors and lots of books and heavy furniture has a lot of thermal mass. Once a house with a lot of thermal mass to reach a comfortable temperature tends to stay that temperature for a long time even after they stop the heat or air conditioning. Offices tend to have high thermal mass. It took a lot of energy to change the temperature of thermal mass. Thus one has to leave the thermostat at the same temperature and does not move up and down. Rejecting the thermostat at night and turning it back on during the day wastes energy.