While assembling our list of top picks, we made sure to include diverse options, including blanket, spray/blow-in, radiant ...

Foil-faced foam board insulation (polyisocyanurate) is a vapor barrier and does not require an additional vapor barrier, while rigid foam board insulation without foil may need one.

The previous owners of the house glued 2-inch-thick foam insulation to the poured concrete walls. It’s got an aluminum foil face on it. Then they covered that with an open-cell foam board that ...

Foil-lined foam insulation board, scraps of lumber, and a paint-thinner can hardly sound like the tools of a radio astronomer. But when coupled with an SDR, a couple of amplifiers, and a fair amoun… ...

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has suspended the use of foil insulation under the Government's home insulation program after it was linked to a number of deaths. The peak group representing ...

Foil behind radiators - traditional central heating radiators work at only about 50-70% efficiency. Placing silver foil behind them will reflect heat back into a room rather than letting it escape ...

Aluminium foil is commonly used in insulation for buildings, transmission wires, against radiation and from fire as well as heat exchangers and automotive applications. Specific applications and ...

The insulation used at Grenfell Tower was made of Polyisocyanurate (PIR), rigid plastic foam sandwiched between two sheets of aluminium foil that supplied in 15cm-thick boards.