RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Abdulla, Naje Mohamed
A1 Lumnitzer, Ervin
T1 Dealing with Insulation in a House
JF Acta Mechanica Slovaca
YR 2013
VO 17
IS 1
SP 76
OP 77
DO 10.21496/ams.2013.011
UL https://www.actamechanica.sk/artkey/ams-201301-0011.php
AB This paper focuses on the optimal ways of insulation of a house. It also discusses places in a house that should be or should not be insulated in order to gain maximum energy effiency and to avoid problems with humidity, moisture accumulation and the like that can be caused if the insulation is installed in a wrong or improper way. It also mentions payback equation that could help assess if the investment in the insulation managed to save energy and money for the resident or not and to what extent it managed to do so.