Load Bearing Floor Insulation

Wearing concrete slab the floor slab that contains either a square fabric mesh or fibres.

Load bearing floor insulation.

Bearing assembly see fig 1 2. Styrofoam brand highload extruded polystyrene foam insulation is a closed cell foam insulation designed for use in runways and other heavy weight infrastructure. Timber flooring on polyethylene slip sheet insulating a solid ground floor below the ground bearing concrete slab can be done using either pir insulation boards or eps insulation boards. Levelling plates to assist a fast and accurate installation fail safes lateral restraints load spreading to ensure the load from the structure is evenly spread over the entire area of the isolation bearings disproportionate collapse measures such as acoustically isolated.

Owens corning foamular 400 600 1000 extruded polystyrene insulation is a high density insulation designed for use in engineered applications requiring additional load bearing capability. Vibration insulation materials performance of most of the modern residential and office buildings is impossible without life supporting engineering equipment. Conditioning and ventilation systems backup power sources elevators and other devices are the source of low frequency mechanical vibrations transmitted by load bearing structures of a. Owens corning s patented hydrovac.

It is comprised of an extruded polystyrene closed cell foam panel with continuous skin face and back surfaces. In a solid or ground bearing because it is continuously supported by the ground across its whole area concrete floor the choice of insulation position relative to the concrete slab is commonly linked to the building s heating system. A point load applied to a floor where the insulation is positioned below a thin screed will result in a higher applied load on the insulation than where the insulation was positioned below a thicker floor slab because the load is bearing on a smaller area of insulation under the screed. Joints in ground bearing slabs tend to be present for two reasons.

Eps can be a cost effective alternative to pir for floor insulation and the same thermal performance can be achieved with increased thickness. Floorboard insulation after discussing the different types of insulation material commonly specified in ground floor constructions in this previous blog we explained why it s important not to assume that all insulation performs the same way with regard to thermal performance and loadbearing capacity.