Cost to heat Wisconsin bus garage cut by 50 percent

摘要

With energy prices rising steadily in recent years, one Wisconsin school district has actually seen the cost of heating its bus garage go down a whopping 50 percent! And the only change made to the 40' x 150' metal building was the installation of a high-efficiency roof insulation system. Glenn Hile, former transportation manager for the Shell Lake School District in Shell Lake, WI, The Simple Saver system has three main components-retainer straps, liner fabric and unfaced fiberglass insulation. Installation begins with the attachment of the retainer straps beneath the bottom plane of the roof purlins. Running perpendicular to the purlins on -30" centers, they will hold the new insulation in place. Once the straps are secured, bay-sized pieces of liner fabric are stretched out above the straps but below the purlins. After that, unfaced blanket insulation is added between the purlins.