Explain how insulation in a house keeps it warmer in winter and cooler in summer??

Question

Explain how insulation in a house keeps it warmer in winter and cooler in summer??

Answer 1

Heat always travels from warmer to cooler . If you install a barrier, you slow this process. Insulation is filled with tiny air pockets, which slow this transfer rate down. There is no such thing as a perfect insulation, but usually the more you pay for higher R-value, the better . Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Insulation helps to prevent the transfer of heat.

Insulate - to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound.

Without insulation in your walls they would very quickly transfer the heat either form the outside to the inside (during the summer) or vise versa (during the winter). while insulation doesn't completely do away with heat transfer, it does greatly slow the process. The higher the "R" value (I.E.. R-19, R-34, etc...) of the insulation the more resistant to the transfer of heat.

Answer 3

Are you serious?

How can anybody over the age of 2years not know the answer to this? If you really dont know then get yourself down to the library and read about it, and stop embarrassing yourself.

Answer 4

ROFL you got that from a book called "science dimensions 1"!

Seeing as i am answering i shall tell you the answer.

The warm air gets trapped in during summer and cold air gets trapped in winter.

Answer 5

Insulation keeps the elements out. Heat and cold travel through anything, like water. And insulation is made af a material that absorbs the heat and cold, keeping it from traveling even further. Without insulation, or insulation installed wrong, can create almost a fernus that warms the whole room, or cools the room. I had a closet once that wasn't insulated properly and my whole room was burning in the summer and freezing in the winter. Hope I helped!

Answer 6

home insulation works a bit like a thermos flask.

You put cold liquid in a flask it will keep cool as the outside warmer air cannot heat the liquid.

You put hot liquid in a flask the heat inside cannot escape to the cooler outside air.

The heat of the outer walls of your home that have been baking in the sun cannot penetrate past the insulation to the inner walls of your house thus warming up inside your home so your house remains cooler in the summer.

In Winter the outside is cold but the heat in your house cannot escape through the insulation to the outer cold walls of your house into the cold air which if it could would cause your house to cool too.