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DuncanM
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I'm getting ready to winterize my home and was browsing the insulation aisle at Home Depot. They have a wide variety of insulating products from which to choose: soft foam, rigid foam, batts, etc.
I got thinking it might be an interesting at-home experiment to confirm the R-values of some of these products.
For example, say I bought a piece of R-5 rigid foam and a piece of R-10 rigid foam.
Is there a simple experiment I could perform at home to confirm the R-values?
Or more generally, perhaps to find the R-value of styrofoam packaging that mail-order companies use?
However, I have no idea how to go about this.
Any recommendations for how a person would calculate the R-value of insulation products (at home)?
I got thinking it might be an interesting at-home experiment to confirm the R-values of some of these products.
For example, say I bought a piece of R-5 rigid foam and a piece of R-10 rigid foam.
Is there a simple experiment I could perform at home to confirm the R-values?
Or more generally, perhaps to find the R-value of styrofoam packaging that mail-order companies use?
However, I have no idea how to go about this.
Any recommendations for how a person would calculate the R-value of insulation products (at home)?