Efficient walls TermicoProETICS

Energy loss through exterior walls can reach 25% of total energy in a house without isolation.

High energy efficiency is one of the most important features in a home, as it reflects not only in the house comfort but also in the energy bill. Directly exposed to the cold in winter and heat during the summer, exterior walls must be able to provide adequate and effective protection.

It is essential to develop efficient walls solutions, suitable for different uses and to answer different requirements of thermal and acoustic protection, surface and fire resistance, and thermal inertia.

The artebel offers several alternatives blocks, to meet the required criteria.

The TermicoProETICS is a lightweight concrete block made with expanded clay aggregates (Leca). Its thermal performance in conjunction with ETICS constitutes a regulated double wall alternative solution, without resorting to other costly materials.

The TermicoProETICS block was designed considering masonry walls with external thermal insulation, ensuring great energy performance. It is the ideal product to use combined with ETICS, allowing a choice between different coating possibilities.

Classical system

Based on expanded polystyrene boards (EPS):

- Good cost-effectiveness ratio

- Allows traditional decorative finishes

Improved resistance system

Based on extruded polystyrene boards (XPS):

- Improved mechanical resistance

- Suitable for areas in contact with terrain or water

- Allows ceramic coating finish

Eco system

Based on Corkboards by Amorim:

- Recyclable and environmentally friendly

- Good thermal and acoustic insulation

- Allows traditional decorative finishes

Fire resistant system

Based on Isofex rock wool boards by Saint-Gobain Isover:

- Fire resistant (non-combustible insulating material)

- Good acoustic insulation capacity

- Allows traditional decorative finishes

In addition reversible male-female fitting, which allows performing dry vertical joints, the thickness of the block TermicoProETICS ensures increased resistance, allowing the use of mechanical fixings. The flatness of the top faces and blocks geometry ensure easy application, resulting in perfectly flat surfaces.

Advantages:

• Thermal insulation
• Acoustic insulation
• High profitability
• Simplicity in implementation
• Reduced consumption of laying mortar
• Dimensional stability
• Reduced capillarity absorption
• Verticality and planimetry of the surfaces

More at: www.artebel.pt