Wendy Nesbeth

You can buy insulating paint in the States, can you buy it in Spain?

It is a paint that insulates the house to keep the heat in or visa versa.

These houses here in Spain are so cold & they don't keep the heat in.

Wendy x

Hillybilly

Not something I've ever heard of but sounds interesting!
To help cut down on heat loss you should address draughts first of all (gaps around doors and windows etc) and then look at insulating the roof. Hanging heavy curtains over doors and windows will help too.

Wendy Nesbeth

All our windows & doors are double glazed, it is the brickwork that is hollow.
It is impossible to insulate the roof on these houses.

Wendy x

YMF

I found this info http://www.thermilate.com/insulating...additive.shtml

Wendy Nesbeth

YMF, thank you so much for that website.


All I have to do is find a stockist in Torrevieja or the surrounding areas

Wendy x

maryann

i thought your post said ' insulting paint' i could not stop laughing!!!

leighbloke

Glad it wasn't just me!!
I imagined someone's neighbour had painted their gable wall as a Man United shirt or something equally as offensive, Chelsea maybe??

EDIT
Just read the link, all seemed well until - at the bottom in a red box it says:- "AS SEEN ON TV" Which in my experience translates as "total bollocks". Remington fuzzaway anyone? or how about a K-Tel box set of the "17 million all time best of country hits from stars like Jaylon Wenning, Hammy Finette....."
IMO steer clear!! If a product gave a 25% reduction in heating costs from a 30 micron thick coat of paint, you could heat your house with a candle if you turned it into wall paper, and in Scandinavia they wouldn't be building houses with 18" of rockwool in the walls.

Fred James

Have you ever wondered how the tourists here in winter wander around in shorts when the temperature is about 10c without apparently feeling the cold?

Well now you know - they paint their legs with this stuff!

rugbymatt

The blocks are hollow Wendy for a reason.

mikelincs

Must admit I read it that way at first, had to read it more carefully the second time

Casa Santo Estevo

We would not purchase it..look at the mess the local painters make

Picture from another thread

Hillybilly

Have found some Spanish manufacturers - Google for "pintura aislante"

mikelincs

Can just imagine Wendy standing in front of it and shouting and swearing at it, perhaps questioning it's parentage?

Wendy Nesbeth

Rugbymatt,

What is the reason for the bricks to be hollow?

So it makes good homes for the roaches !!!!!!

Wendy x

rugbymatt

Because air is a natural insulator, in the summer the trapped air creates a cool pocket that allows the house to be a much cooler place, i know it doesnt seem it but try living in a house without them in a hot country, its murder.