Have you ever wondered what the purpose of house insulation is, particularly in your attic space? After all, if you have an unfinished attic, insulation may look like fluffy stuff lying around on the floors and walls. This fluffy stuff is critical in helping keep your family safe from the elements and protecting your home.
Here are five reasons why roof insulation is much more important than you could have ever imagined.
Better Energy Efficiency with Roof Insulation
If you’ve been in a room that doesn’t have insulation, you’ll sense that it feels much colder or hotter in that room than in other rooms in the house. For instance, a room with no insulation in winter is much colder and hotter in summer. Rooms with insulation balance the temperature, keeping that area from being too cold or hot. As a result, the room will be much more energy efficient.
Lower Energy Bills with Insulation
When your home has better energy efficiency from insulation, you can count on your bills to be lower. This is because insulation regulates temperatures and keeps your HVAC from working much harder than necessary. When your attic space has insulation, you can significantly reduce energy expenses. The attic is one of the spaces in your home most affected by the elements.
In summer, the sun’s heat beats down on the roof, causing an attic that’s not insulated to be extremely hot. In winter, the cold winds pummel the rooftop, causing an attic that’s not insulated to be freezing. Proper insulation in the attic space will minimize these extremities in temperature in your home and help keep your bills low.
Roofing Insulation with Noise Reduction
Have you ever listened to the raindrops pelting your home? Maybe you’ve never noticed because you have plenty of distractions, such as television or music, to drown out such sounds. However, if you have an attic that isn’t insulated, you’ll undoubtedly hear these sounds much more clearly than an insulated attic. Besides using your electronics to minimize the noise, insulating your attic space can reduce the sounds of rain, wind, or other elements pelting your roof.
Prevention of Ice Dams
Another critical reason to have roof insulation is because it will prevent ice dams. In winter, when snow falls onto your roof, it will eventually melt off evenly with the help of the sun and warmer temperatures. However, if you have an attic that isn’t insulated, the heat that rises in your home will cause the snow to melt unevenly on your roof and form what is known as an ice dam, which is a combo of snow, slush, and ice. This combination of precipitation damages your roof because a dam forms and pushes moisture upward under the shingles, allowing water to seep into your roof decking.
Over time, exposure of the roof decking to water can lead to leaks getting into your home and potentially forming mold. An insulated attic will prevent these ice dams by minimizing rising heat in your home from unevenly melting snow on your roof.
Prolonged Lifespan of the Roof
Ice dams forming are generally a worst-case scenario for your roof. However, this isn’t the only thing that can impact an uninsulated roof. If your roof makes it through several winters without accumulating piles of snow and many summers of blazing hot UV rays, it may still suffer from general wear much faster than an insulated roof.
The freeze and thaw cycles in winter, along with expansion from the intensity of heat in summer, can take its toll on your attic space and roof if it isn’t insulated. As a result, your roof may experience structural damage to the decking and may require premature replacement of shingles.
Insulation for Optimal Roof Installation and Function
You don’t have to risk costly damage to your roof from an uninsulated attic. Our home efficiency experts are ready to help improve the quality of your attic space so that you can prolong the life of your roof. Call Level Up Improvement in Dearborn today to set an appointment, and we’ll get to work protecting your roof right away.
Our Michigan based contracting company specializes in home efficiency and improvement through services such as roof installation, siding installation, insulation installation, energy efficient windows, doors and more! Always striving to help homeowners live better and feel good in their homes while saving money on energy bills.