{"id":361628,"date":"2018-01-25T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T12:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=f5eba7115b43d45082aaf505d2cced53"},"modified":"2018-01-25T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T12:12:51","slug":"kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingspan Kooltherm Phenolic Foam Rigid Insulation"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    A deep-energy-retrofit project uses Kooltherm as part of a high-performance attic insulation system        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Yost%20-%20Kingspan%20article%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of the house in Brattleboro at  81 Chapin Street\" width=\"144\" height=\"130\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Yost%20-%20Roof%20R-value.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Section through roof assembly - House in Brattleboro\" width=\"144\" height=\"77\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%203_open-vs-close.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo showing closed cells of rigid foam insulation\" width=\"144\" height=\"204\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%206_KT%20bundle-800px.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of insulation work in attic\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%207_attic%20slope-800px.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of installed Kooltherm insulation\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%208_slope%20installation-800px.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of the wall sheathing boards showing air sealing work\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Image%209_KT%20Cellulose-800x.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of a worker blowing cellulose insulation\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Improving the thermal performance of an existing attic is often challenging: workers are faced with narrow cavities, low clearances, and <span>cladding<\/span><span>Materials used on the roof and walls to enclose a house, providing protection against weather.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> systems that make it hard to achieve desired R-values while still maintaining the necessary drying potential of the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The house at 81 Chapin Street in Brattleboro, Vermont, is no exception. It&rsquo;s a 100-year-old wood-framed two-story home that Alex Beck and Candace Pearson are determined to comprehensively retrofit to high performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/kingspan-kooltherm-phenolic-foam-rigid-insulation\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14776,14777,14778,14779,13876],"class_list":["post-361628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-deep-energy-retrofit","tag-energy-retrofit","tag-foam-insulation","tag-phenolic-foam","tag-rigid-foam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}