Insulated Precast Foundation Lowers Monthly Heating and Cooling Bills
W
hatever the size of your new modular home, you can build in features which will make your property energy efficient, and incorporate features which will cut your heating and cooling bill drastically, or wipe it out altogether. The answer to this is the utilization of precast foundation?
What is an insulated precast foundation? What are its benefits? How does precast foundation reduces heating and cooling bills?
Insulated Precast Foundation
No one method of energy efficiency in a modular home can reduce your heating bill to zero, but good quality insulation can go a long way to reducing costs. Most manufacturers who draw up modular home floor plans incorporate high standards of insulation on the walls, ceilings and have the best standard of windows and doors on the market. Good insulation can keep your house warm in winter, and cool in summer.
Properly insulating your modular home doesn’t just mean the right amount of insulating material; it also means energy-efficient panels. The cost of insulated panels for a modular home is higher than the materials for a comparable framed building in the United States; however, this may not be true elsewhere.
Well-built modular home using insulated panels will have a tighter building envelope and the walls will have higher insulating properties, which leads to fewer drafts and a decrease in heating and cooling costs per month. Also, due to the standardized and all-in-one nature of insulated panels, construction time can be less than for a modular home, as well as requiring fewer work men. As a result, the total life-cycle cost of an insulated precast modular home will, in general, be lower than for a conventional house.
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