Isover products for ventilated facades: materials and their characteristics

Mineral wool Isover is a product of one of the world's leading manufacturers of basalt slabs and other mineral wool insulation and fiberglass thermal insulation materials. Heaters of this brand have established themselves as products characterized by the optimal combination of price, quality and excellent performance.

Thermal insulation materials produced by the French company Saint-Gobain, in addition to excellent insulating functions, also have very significant sound-absorbing properties, which significantly expands the scope of their application.

According to consumer reviews, Isover insulating materials in a practical aspect show themselves better than similar products produced by other competing manufacturers.

Mineral wool heaters of the Isover brand allow for thermal insulation of any surfaces. The company produces products that make it possible to insulate both internal and external wall surfaces, insulate attic ceilings, pitched and straight roof ceilings.

Significant advantages of French-brand heat-insulating mineral wool boards are their characteristics such as mechanical flexibility, resistance to deformation effects and tensile strength. This makes it possible to use them on structures of a complex geometric profile such as pipes, industrial equipment, structural elements of production lines and others.

This brand produces a very wide range of mineral wool insulation, differing in functionality. The company's products are divided into two categories. The first includes heaters intended for industrial use, and the second includes mineral wool slabs for domestic use, including those that can be installed indoors.

For ventilated facades, one can distinguish a brand of insulation called Isover "Venti". It is a mineral wool slab insulation with very solid technical characteristics., significantly exceeding such indicators for conventional mineral wool. Thus, Venti's density is 88 kg / m3, and its compressive strength is 20 kPa with a perpendicular tension of 4 kPa.

The thermal insulation coefficient of this material has an indicator of the order of 0.035 W / mk, and the degree of its vapor permeability is 0.3 mg / MPa. When immersed in water for a day, the degree of water absorption of this material does not exceed 1% of its total mass. It belongs to the NG fire resistance class.

Belongs to the class of heat-insulating, sound-absorbing materials, fiberglass-based, designed to create the main heat-insulating layer for single-layer thermal insulation.The device of ventilated facades in buildings based on this material is carried out without restrictions on their height.

The form of production of this brand is plates that are convenient for installation. Their thickness is 50 and 100 mm with a total sheet dimensions of 1190 mm × 1380 mm.

Slabs "VentFasad Mono" have a low coefficient of thermal conductivity and a high degree of air permeability, that is, they are a "breathing" material. However, a high level of their density makes it possible to avoid heat losses due to convective heat transfer.

This material is completely non-flammable, chemically neutral, does not decompose under the influence of biological factors, is resistant to the effects of fungus and the appearance of mold, does not contain compounds harmful to humans. At the same time, due to its high elasticity, this material does not shrink, retaining its original volume throughout the entire period of operation.

The next type of Isover products are VentFasad Niz heat-insulating elements. They are intended for use as an inner layer of insulation and are used only for laying a two-layer insulation material. These plates are based on fiberglass. Due to their production from natural natural components such as sand, soda and limestone, the content of synthetic binder in them is minimal.

These slabs are of the "mono" type, and they do not require great rigidity and density, because they essentially serve to fill the cavity under the outer layer, which, in fact, performs the function of keeping heat. This non-combustible insulating material is characterized by increased elasticity and elasticity, due to which air pockets do not appear in its volume.

For these slabs, it is permissible to use them as a single-layer thermal insulation included in the facade ventilated systems with an air gap on balconies and loggias and on external frame walls. The material fits snugly to the base and can be attached to it with one dowel.

It can be compressed several times, which gives it a high degree of loading of the vehicle, increasing labor productivity when performing loading and unloading operations and saving storage space.

Insulation differs from the previous product in that it is represented by an external insulating layer and is intended directly for a two-layer type of insulation.

This product has a relatively low coefficient of permeability to air flows and thermal energy, which guarantees the effectiveness and stability of protection against heat loss from the room.

According to factory standards, this material belongs to the "NG" group, that is, it belongs to the type of non-combustible materials. There is a possibility of ordering, in some cases it should be classified as a flammability group "G1".

With a product thickness of 30 mm, its dimensions are 1380 × 1190 mm.

Below is a video overview of Isover products for ventilated facades.