All homes need insulation for comfortable, energy efficient living, but insulating shipping container homes presents some unique challenges. Learn how to install InSoFast insulation panels in your steel container to make living in it more comfortable.
InSoFast, LLC has provided superior quality products since 2006. Our EPS insulation panels are very lightweight, can be easily cut and installed on the jobsite, and require no special tools.
InSoFast Shipping Container Insulation Options
Shipping containers were never designed to be inhabited by humans. Their steel construction makes them susceptible to condensation that can cause mold and corrosion and shorten the container’s usable life. The interiors of these metal boxes can also become too hot, too cold and too noisy.
Traditional insulation methods will lead to problems in a shipping container. Water vapor can travel through traditionally framed walls like water through a screen door in a submarine.
InSoFast is the easy way to turn cold, corrugated steel containers into cozy and safe homes, keeping them comfortable, dry, quiet, and in good condition.
Panels
InSoFast CX Container Panels are designed specifically for the side walls of shipping containers. They have a thin profile and take up only two inches of interior space, enabling you to minimize the thickness of your walls. The panels are set up for an 11-inch repeating pattern of the corrugation and the panel size is 44” x 24”.
These panels are installed horizontally with the studs running vertically to allow the studs to adhere to the interior-facing ribs of the container. CX Container Panels are affordable, lightweight, offer very high R-values, and can be affixed directly to the container sides with adhesive.
InSerts
To achieve maximum insulation and air-tightness, combine specifically shaped side wall, end wall and ceiling InSoFast InSerts with InSoFast UX 2.0 or InSoFast EXi 2.5 panels. This combination of InSoFast InSerts and InSoFast Panels provides a skin-tight framing and insulation to support your drywall finishes and fills up all of the hidden airspace behind the drywall with solid closed cell foam.
InSoFast has designed and engineered these InSerts to close up the container wall’s corrugation air gaps. Once glued in place, the surfaces will be flush and ready for coverage in full InSoFast panels, leaving a smooth surface for installing drywall and other wall finishes.
InSoFast kits are available for 20-foot and 40-foot containers with either standard 8-foot or high cube 9-foot ceilings, or call us to discuss custom configurations. And visit our website for a selection of videos and other resources about shipping container insulation.
Call InSoFast today at (888) 501-7899 to learn more about insulating shipping container homes. Our American-made patented and patent-pending EPS panels are shipped free of charge from our manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, Minnesota and Idaho to your project site.
