Simple Saver System Offers Alternative to Traditional Metal Building Insulation Methods

摘要

When Thermal Design began marketing its Simple Saver insulation system back in the early 1980s, it promoted the new system as an superior alternative to the conventional over-the-purl in insulating method widely used in the metal building industry. At issue was whether the compression of the insulation between roof sheets and the framing members enabled a given system's advertised R-value to be achieved. Dan Harkins, the inventor of the Simple Saver system, says it does not. The topic has been the subject of extensive debate ever since.To deliver advertised R-values, the Simple Saver system uses a continuous vapor barrier placed below the metal building purlins, creating a space between the purlins that can then be filled with un-compressed insulation.