Which one of these coolers represents your home insulation? l\Let's talk about it.
Welcome to Foam University, today we're going to be talking about how your
home's insulation compares to a cooler. Before we get into that
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Now, we're going to be discussing how the engineering, the design, the technology of
a cooler compares to the insulation that's in your house and how the systems
are a lot more similar than we thought. Also, we're going to get real interesting,
we're gonna actually cut open to different types of coolers, check out
what's inside get a deeper look at those design, with technology and again how
that relates to your home. Now let's go cut some stuff open.
And we have two different classes of coolers here. So right here, this is your
common cooler this might have been what you and your
grandpa, your father took on fishing trips when you were a kid. This is
probably the cooler that almost every person has laying around in the basement
or the garage somewhere and then over here we have the new space-age
technology coolers. This is very comparable to some of the four or five
hundred dollar coolers that we're all aware of are out on the market. So we
want to pay attention to their design specifically and the technology that
goes into them. So let's take a look at this one over here again. This is your
common everyday cooler. Now the first thing I want to point out is if we look
at the walls, we see how thin they are. Now there is insulation inside these
walls and if we look at the lid here, this is completely hollow. There's
nothing inside here as far as insulation to help hold any cold inside, help keep
heat out nothing like that and when we close this there is a positive close and
you get you know somewhat of a decent seal and if we look at the bottom,
obviously we're not looking inside it just yet but there's nothing in there
either. So obviously it's enclosed in everything
and relatively airtight and somewhat of a water seal, but again there's
insulation on the side walls nothing on the top nothing on the bottom, also it's
very light, it's a very lightweight cooler. This is what we've seen for years and
years and decades, like I said we all probably have a cooler like this
somewhere in the house or in the garage. So now let's jump over to this. Again,
space-age technology and what I mean when I say that, is simply that the
insulation that's inside the cooler is a little bit different, it's a little bit
different foam. Now both of these coolers have foam inside the wall too
insulate it. This one has a little bit difference, more but denser high r-value
foam and there's a lot more of it. So if we pop off the security latches so no
Bears get in, grizzly approved and if we lean this one over you can see how thick
those walls are. Again, it's a lot more space
for insulation to keep whatever's inside cold and to keep that warm out. Now we
look at this lid, already I can tell by lifting it much much heavier and this is
solid. There's foam in there just like on the walls and there's foam on the bottom
as well. So now that we've looked at the coolers a little bit, let's think about
that in comparison to your home. Ok so really simply, it lays out the exact same
way. So let's start at the bottom, right so if we look at this, this really
premium cooler we see it's got a really thick insulation at the bottom, it's
gonna stop any heat from being sucked out through conduction. Now we look at
the walls. They have these really thick, super walls that are filled with foam. Now same
thing, same thing we recommend for your house. Put foam inside those wall
cavities, get that good thermal resistance, get that air seal in there.
Now let's keep moving up. At the top, before the lid there's this gasket that
goes around the top and what that gasket does is provides an air seal for the
cooler. Same thing we talked about recommending foam for your house, it's
important to get all the areas like the rim joist,like around the soffit area in
your attic, all those areas where air just wants to pour out you want
something, in this case like comparing it to this gasket to stop, to contain that
air, to stop it from getting out or from stop air from getting in, same thing. So
now let's go up one step further, let's look at the lid. We have foam in this lid,
it's stopping all that heat from getting out, we all know heat rises, same thing we
look at your attic, we want to put foam insulation on the roof deck of your
attic to stop that heat from getting out. You want a good thermal resistance and
use a material that provides an air seal like foam just like used in this cooler.
So you want to stop that heat from getting out, you want to contain it so
essentially when you look at one of these coolers it's a box that's
contained, that's completely air sealed. It's holding in that cool temperature,
right. Your house is the exact same thing, it's a box where you're trying to
contain a temperature. In our case, usually you know, we think about winter
season, we want to contain Heat but it's the same principle in the
summer or if you're in a warm climate same thing you want to contain that cool
temperature that you're paying for. So the science is really the same thing
that goes into these premium coolers. Put a material that has a great
thermal resistance, provide an air seal to the structure and let it do its work.
Same thing we recommend, so I really recommend check out the article that's
attached below, it'll talk a little bit more about comparing a cooler to an
insulation process and how really it's the same thing. If you have a question, if
you're thinking about, you know, hey I'm thinking about insulating my attic for
this reason, you're using this material or whatever the case is or if you hadn't
thought about it like this, about shutting the lid on your house and
creating that that stop and that resistance and you're attic, drop us a
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anywhere, if you stuck around this far please check out this bonus video right
here, a review that we did of both of these coolers.