AIR-CELL

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Effective under-floor insulation and ground moisture proofing saves heating costs and creates a healthier and more comfortable living environment by keeping feet and playing children warm, and preventing moisture rising from the ground to enter the building.

Under-floor insulation can make a huge difference to the experienced comfort in your home because a warm floor will provide a more even vertical temperature distribution in your living space.  We get cold feed easily, so a warm floor gives you better comfort than warm air around your head.  Ground moisture proofing reduces condensation by preventing ground moisture ingression.  Dry air costs less to heat than moist air.

Three Problems of Uninsulated Floors

• Uninsulated timber floors feel cold and are on reason for high energy costs due to insufficient thermal resistance of the floorboards
• Drafts through leaky floorboards bring in cold, damp air, pushing warm, heated air up to the ceiling
• Moisture rising from the ground diffuses easily through floorboards and most floor coverings, causing condensation problems inside the house.

Three Products in One - AIR-CELL Under-Floor Insulation
Air-Cell Under-Floor Insulation consist of a 7mm thick polymer bubble blanket in between two reflective foils. 

Air-Cell offers all functions required for retrofitting suspended timber floors in one product:

• Thermal insulation as a result of 97% reflection of heat radiation (two reflective foils) and thermal conductivity separation (enclosed air-cells)
• Draught stop (all joints will be overlapped and airtight taped)
• Ground moisture proofing (Vapour barrier)
• Strength, durability and water resistance

Air-Cell is the most effective and easiest to install under-floor insulation material for suspended timber floors.  Installed correctly it will provide double the performance of perforated reflective single foil.

The R-value of the floor system insulated with Air-Cell varies between R2.0 and R2.3 with a minimum 100mm air gap, because it depends not only on the thermal properties of the insulation material, but also on factors such as the flooring type, thermal bridges and still air spaces.

Maximum thermal performance depends on creating a still air zone between the flooring and the insulation blanket, which is stapled underneath the floor joists.  Thus, all joints and penetrations must be airtight, sealed by using Air-Cell pressure-sensitive foil tape.  To ensure maximum reflectivity the upper surface of the insulation blanket must be kept clean when installing.

    


Air cell is one of our best products, with a very good R-value, but quit expensive in comparison with some of our other insulation materials.