If you’re planning on pouring a slab and installing in floor radiant heat, make sure you maximize your investment and insulate.  Ultra Concrete Barrier Foil was designed for this purpose.  As your radiant heat flows, it flows in two directions.  The first is your living space, where you want it.  The second is the ground underneath your slab where you don’t.  Ultra CBF lies between your slab and the ground.  It’s a radiant barrier so it reflects the lost radiant heat heading to the ground back to the slab and into your living space where it belongs.  The unique, patented design of reflective aluminum in the middle and industrial strength bubbles to the exterior ensures the reflective layer is never in contact with the concrete or ground protecting its radiant barrier qualities.  This is the only product on the market designed like this and patented for under slab and in floor under slab radiant heat projects.  It is the premier product in the industry.

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As the recent energy saving push continues, it is always important to recognize that energy savings within a home starts with stopping air infiltration and using the correct insulation specific to your application.

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Adding fiberglass insulation in attics is always a good start.  Compliment this with attic radiant barriers and good ventilation, you ensure the most efficient attic possible.  You’ve essentially increased the R-Value but now have the ability to block the transfer of radiant heat, a major mode of heat loss and gain, especially in attics.

Specific types of foil insulation such as Ultra CBF were designed for under concrete slab use.    Used with or without an in-floor radiant heat system, the material is superior to work with and holds up better to job site traffic than traditional board insulation.

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Foil is unaffected by water and its insulation qualities will not diminish when wet like fiberglass.  Duct and pipe wrap, crawlspaces and basements are also key areas to use reflective foil insulation.

Look at your home.  Note accessible areas that you could add additional insulation.  Identify areas where the use of a radiant barrier would be effective. 

Once you understand how heat is transferred within a home and what insulation is designed to do, it is easy then to choose the right product or group of products to achieve your insulation goals.  InsulStop’s Radiant Barriers can get you there.

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Ultra CBF has a patented design consisting of a bubble/foil/bubble detail or bubbles to the exterior and foil to the interior.  This ensures the reflective barrier is never in contact with the concrete.  The bubbles are industrial strength, specifically designed for use under concrete. 

Reflective foil insulation blocks the transfer of radiant heat, allowing for a warmer, drier basement that loses less energy.  Foil insulation is impervious to water and moisture making it ideal in basement applications.

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Ultra Concrete Barrier rFoil™  is easy to install even on rough grade.  The roll size is 48″ x 125′ or 500 square feet making transportation and installation much easier than competitive foam products. 

Ultra CBF is also an approved vapor and methane barrier, making the addition of standard vapor barrier unnecessary.

For your next basement or concrete insulation project, look at what Ultra CBF from rFoil™ can do for you.

The only difference is single bubble foil has only one layer of polyethylene bubble between the two exterior layers of highly reflective aluminum foil. 

For almost all projects, both residential and commercial, we recommend a double bubble product.  This is the only product we offer on our main website.  Because of its double layer of bubbles, the product is more robust and therefore stronger.  It is also thicker, creating more of a thermal break.

Single bubble products are recommended where product quality is not the main concern or where temporary radiant barrier applications are needed.  There are applications where single bubble is fine.  These include using the material as pipe wrap insulation and insulating dog houses or hot water tanks.

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You still receive the benefits of using a radiant barrier but with a thinner, lighter product. 

For long term applications, forego the small amount of money you would save initially and purchase a double bubble product. 

Also, although single bubble products are sometimes marketed for under concrete slab applications, you should always use a double bubble product in an under slab application.  The patented product on the market, Ultra CBF Foil is a double bubble product consisting of two layers of industrial strength bubbles to deal with any compression issues.