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LOOSE FILL VERMICULITE [1 record]

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Record 1 2011-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
  • Thermal Insulation
CONT

I am 90% complete with an 8'x8' outdoor sauna. It's really a garden shed with an old wood burner in it. It's cedar-lined with very little insulation. I put about 3" of loose vermiculite in the ceiling and stapled an aluminum vapor barrier in the walls ... I did put in double panes to help keep heat in.

CONT

The tandoor liner is surrounded by six cubic feet of loose vermiculite insulation. This was bought from a builders' merchant as two bags, each three cubic feet.

OBS

loose vermiculite: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • loose fill vermiculite

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
  • Isolation thermique
OBS

La vermiculite est un minéral (mica) qui a été expansé (comme le maïs soufflé) pour devenir un isolant granulaire léger. Il peut être versé dans des endroits très restreints (blocs de béton).

OBS

Le seul isolant en vrac, à notre connaissance, utilisable dans ces cas est du mica expansé, appelé aussi vermiculite.

OBS

vermiculite en vrac : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

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