Compare insulation Ursa and Penoplex

URSA and Peno­plex are ther­mal insu­la­tion mate­ri­als that can be used to insu­late walls, foun­da­tions, roofs and oth­er parts of a build­ing. Despite the sim­i­lar scope, they dif­fer quite a lot in terms of com­po­si­tion and some oper­a­tional fea­tures.

There­fore, before you go to the build­ing mate­ri­als store, you need to com­pare URSA and Peno­plex and choose which insu­la­tion is best for your pur­pos­es.

Advantages and disadvantages of URSA insulation (“Ursa”)

Heat insu­la­tor URSA (“Ursa”) is being devel­oped in Ger­many. Its basis is glass fiber. How­ev­er, the spe­cif­ic com­po­si­tion and char­ac­ter­is­tics of this mate­r­i­al vary depend­ing on its spe­cif­ic vari­ety.

The com­pa­ny’s prod­uct range includes five lines of heat insu­la­tors:

1. 
   Geo. This series is char­ac­ter­ized by high envi­ron­men­tal friend­li­ness and is there­fore suit­able for insu­lat­ing hous­es made of envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly mate­ri­als. How­ev­er, this fea­ture has made Ursa Geo a pop­u­lar solu­tion for the con­struc­tion of pri­vate and mul­ti-apart­ment build­ings, office and com­mer­cial build­ings;

2. 
   Pure On. Anoth­er solu­tion that is well suit­ed for use in pri­vate con­struc­tion. It is made of min­er­al wool and due to the spe­cial tex­ture it prac­ti­cal­ly does not irri­tate the skin, eyes and mucous mem­branes;

3. 
   Ter­ra. Spe­cial coat­ing, which is car­ried out in the form of tech­ni­cal mats. It is focused on use in the con­struc­tion of indus­tri­al facil­i­ties, insu­la­tion of slop­ing roofs and facades. Dif­fers in excel­lent noise-insu­lat­ing prop­er­ties;

4. 
   seko. Rolled ther­mal insu­la­tor, which is used on slop­ing roofs, exter­nal walls and ceil­ings;

5. 
   XPS. Unlike oth­er mate­ri­als of the com­pa­ny, “Ursa” XPS is made not from min­er­al wool, but from extrud­ed poly­styrene. Thanks to this, it is uni­ver­sal and suit­able for ther­mal insu­la­tion of almost all parts of the build­ing.

All this makes mate­ri­als from Ursa suit­able for insu­lat­ing shal­low foun­da­tions, floors, brick, stone, sheath­ing and frame walls, as well as roofs. The mate­r­i­al itself is dis­tin­guished by excel­lent ther­mal insu­la­tion prop­er­ties, elas­tic­i­ty, light­ness and low price.

Advantages and disadvantages of Penoplex insulation

Peno­plex, unlike its pre­de­ces­sor, is made from extrud­ed poly­styrene. There­fore, it also has excel­lent ther­mal insu­la­tion qual­i­ties, is char­ac­ter­ized by light­ness and ease of instal­la­tion. How­ev­er, the use of extrud­ed poly­styrene some­what changes the scope of this heat insu­la­tor.

Now there are four lines of this coat­ing on the mar­ket:

1. “Wall” (“31” with flame retar­dant). Used for wall insu­la­tion (both exter­nal and inter­nal) and plinth;

2. “Foun­da­tion” (“35”). It is installed on the base­ment and foun­da­tion of the build­ing;

3. “Roof” (“35”). It is installed on roofs — flat, slop­ing and even inver­sion;

4. “Com­fort” (“31C”). A uni­ver­sal solu­tion that is suit­able for the insu­la­tion of any part of the build­ing.

5. Fire retar­dant is a spe­cial sub­stance that pre­vents the fire of a heat insu­la­tor. There­fore, the wall options of Peno­plex are sup­ple­ment­ed with it in the com­po­si­tion, which increas­es fire safe­ty, but neg­a­tive­ly affects the price.

Comparison of “Ursa” and “Penoplex”

These two mate­ri­als dif­fer from each oth­er not only in the scope of appli­ca­tion (although there are also “inter­sec­tions”) and the basis of the com­po­si­tion. Let’s com­pare the heaters “Ursa” and “Peno­plex”:

Regard­ing the price. On aver­age, in the mar­ket, Ursa heaters are 3–4 times cheap­er than Peno­plex. And this is the rea­son for their high demand.