Converting a shipping container into a habitable structure is a worthwhile and sustainable project. Work with one unit for a smaller home or combine several to create a grand container mansion. Buy InSoFast shipping container insulation panels for your new home creation in Phoenix, AZ. This one decision will overcome common challenges these homes face while also providing easier constructions processes and lower utility bills in years to come.
Common Challenges to Shipping Container Transformations
While your plans may end with a dry, quiet, and comfortable structure with all the trappings of a home, the beginnings will be a plain metal structure designed to ship goods. To make your desired end possible, you’ll need to focus on overcoming the challenges created by the conductive nature of metal, like extreme temperatures, condensation formation, and overwhelming noise.
For a shipping container home to be livable, it will require insulation that stabilizes temperatures. You’ll also need to prevent destructive moisture, since vapor and condensation will inevitably lead to rust and corrosion. If you choose fiberglass insulation, it will also cause mildew and mold. InSoFast insulation panels will overcome all of these challenges with strong, non-porous, and non-degrading materials.
Insulating Strength of InSoFast Insulation Panels for Shipping Containers
The magic behind InSoFast insulation panels is how it works as continuous insulation. The airtight connection comes through interlocking pieces that have alignment notches for foolproof installation. These non-porous, closed-cell panels also include built-in embedded studs that aren’t conductive and are fully enmeshed within the panel, preventing thermal bridging.
Your shipping container will enjoy continuous, long-lived insulation coverage when you choose InSoFast insulation panels because the panels don’t break down or release toxins as years go by.
InSoFast insulation panels also include moisture control channels to prevent mold, mildew, and corrosion. Other features that prevent the destructive effects of moisture include the non-porous nature of the EPS panel and the strong insulation that prevents condensation.
InSoFast insulation products are lightweight, stackable, and standardly sized. All that you’ll need to apply the products are a saw, utility knife, caulk gun, and construction adhesive.
InSoFast CX 44 Shipping Container Panel
A shipping-container-specific InSoFast panel, the CX 44 panel has an R-value of 11 to meet present and future regulations. These panels are 2” thick to leave plenty of interior space and include embedded studs every 16” on center to provide a built-in frame.
These panels follow an 11-inch repeating pattern along the corrugation, and they include built-in electrical raceways that make wiring the unit much easier.
InSoFast InSerts in Combination with InSoFast Insulation Panels
The alternative method of insulating with InSoFast products is to use InSerts and insulation panels. The InSerts are EPS sleeves that, when glued into corrugated spaces, create an airtight foundation upon which either UX 2.0 or EXi 2.5 panels will follow.
Whether you plan to build a tiny home to move aging parents closer or a container mansion or office complex, your project in Phoenix, AZ, will succeed or fail largely based upon your choice of insulation. Call (888) 396-9677 or use our website to buy InSoFast shipping container insulation panels. We offer kits with standard or customized measurements, and our website is rich with content meant to provide ideas and instruction.
