How to add Insulation to your home - Part 1- Ben Kerslake - BS067
Building Sustainability Podcast
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Exactly. It's Just a Fine Balance
There might be a quite a lot of moisture that's absorbed into these microscopic voids. And so it's just that that slowing down of heat cransfer will then condensate the ang warm air, and you've got copounding issueso of more dampness. Modern materials such as gypson am can get overwhelmed because they're so slow to absorb moisture. They go through this cycle of am evaporates, salts come to the surface, that absorbs more moisture, and you get into cycle of a salt and moisture creation. The water from outside hasn't even managed to get inside yet, so it'sjusts on its way through. So so it's definitely a fine balance.
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