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    The Secrets Behind SIPs

    Jun 04, 2019 3 minutes

    Of all the things your timber home should be — sturdy, beautiful, comfortably furnished — there’s one adjective that should never make the list: cold. There’s a solution for that, and it can be summed up in three words: structural insulated panels, aka, SIPs.

    We’ve been trained to think of the energy performance of a structure in terms of R-value. The R-value is the resistance to the transfer of heat and is used to measure thermal resistance

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