What insulation does not bite mouse? Experiment.
TORysy and mice can cause serious structural damage to your home and communications: rodents can gnaw electrical wiring, home insulation, vapor-proof membrane, plastic water pipes and etc.
ANDof the violation of the integrity of the insulation and vapor diffusion-proof insulation film suffers from an apartment house: the house loses heat faster, but because of damage to the insulation film becomes wet and loses its effectiveness more more.
What insulation choose to rodents, it does not hurt?
The same question in 1992 Ask students the Department of Forest Science, fisheries and wildlife University of Nebraska (USA). The guys set up an experiment: test manufactured timber frame of the board, warmed ryznymi types of insulation:
- Epps (XPS)
- fiberglass
- Stone wool
- vermiculite
- Ecowool
DA purity of the experiment the inner side walls sheathed 6mm plywood outer - trapezoidal sheet and measured the thermal conductivity of each of the insulated panels. After that, the premises housed 20 families mouse.
BErez 6 months of life in mice measured the thermal conductivity of the thermal insulating materials new panels. The results were as follows:
INyyasnilos that all insulated panels approximately equally affected by the rodents, which made nests in the insulation and gnaw passages.
ANDof the thermal conductivity of the mice of each panel is increased more than 5 times - the walls began to give 5 times more heat. The only exception was the wall, insulated glass wool and ecowool - there is a mouse made fewer moves because of the aggressive environment of insulation, but it did not add thermal efficiency home - damage to the thermal conductivity was the same.
Output:
Rodents (mice, rats) bring the same damage to any type of insulation and settle in the polymer, and natural insulation. The only solution - to restrict ingress of mice in the home.
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