Transformed shipping containers are incredibly useful as spaces for storage, working out, quilting, wood-working, and other hobby-specific purposes as well as areas for living, teaching, performing business, and other day-to-day functions. Insulating the exterior of your shipping container project will enhance the durability of the structure while also increasing its usefulness. InSoFast, LLC offers a few products to facilitate this process.
Understanding the Importance of Insulation to Shipping Container Transformations
Shipping containers require insulation because of the metal construction. The steel is an excellent conductor of energy, so maintaining a stable temperature within it is difficult. The ensuing condensation and uncontrolled noise amplification are other issues caused by the steel composition of the structure. Quality insulation will control each of these problems.
Recognizing the Quality InSoFast Insulation Products Provide
InSoFast, LLC, founded in 2006, is an insulation developer and manufacturer with facilities in South Dakota, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Idaho. While we originally targeted our products to commercial construction projects, the ease of application and functionality quickly endeared our panels to the hobbyist and do-it-yourself market as well.
The Benefits of Insulating Shipping Container Exteriors
Insulation, when added to the exterior of a shipping container, will resolve the issues of condensation, uncontrolled temperatures, and noise, and it will leave more room available on the interior of the container.
The interior insulation will combine with the exterior insulation for an accumulated insulating effect as well.
InSoFast insulating products also supply a system of strong, embedded studs that will simplify finishing the exterior with all sorts of products from vinyl siding to stucco and more.
InSoFast Insulation Products Available
The right InSoFast insulation product for your project will depend on your specific plans. In many situations, it’s more economical to choose the CX Low Pro Insulated Studs paired with InSoFast sidewall InSerts and your choice of rigid foam board insulation. However, if you plan to run services to the exterior of the shipping container panel, the InSoFast CX 44 shipping container panel is the better choice.
InSoFast CX Low Pro Insulated Studs
The CX-LP studs applied to the exterior of the shipping container take less room to ship, making it less expensive, and they make insulating the exterior a straightforward process. The application process involves gluing a CX-LP stud along the ridges of the corrugation and inserting an InSoFast InSert sleeve within the empty spaces of the corrugation. Once cured, a rigid foam board over the InSoFast InSerts will create an R-value of 8.3, but you can continue to build on the energy efficiency with additional foam boards, depending on your climate.
InSoFast CX 44 Shipping Container Panels
If your plans include running services like electricity to the exterior of your shipping container, we recommend sticking with the InSoFast CX 44 shipping container panels. They follow an 11-inch repeating pattern along the corrugation and are incredibly easy to install, but they include raceways for wiring, embedded studs, and drainage channels just to name a few of the special features.
InSoFast insulation products are excellent choices for insulating the exterior of shipping containers. For more information on how to order and the free shipping we provide to destinations within the lower 48, give us a call today at (888) 501-7899. We also provide a number of inspirational videos and blogs at our website: insofast.com.
