İzocam Offers Key Recommendations

Izocam warns about water meters and pipes. Insulation is important both to prevent water meter and pipe bursts that frequently occur during cold winter months and to achieve energy savings exceeding 50 percent. Izocam has called attention to water meter and pipe bursts as cold weather intensifies these days. During winter months when freezing events occur frequently, insulating water installations with Izocam protects both water meters and pipes from damage while also providing energy savings exceeding 50 percent. During winter months, as air temperatures drop below freezing, freeze-related pipe and water meter bursts occur frequently, causing hundreds of water meters to fail each year, while burst water pipes result in damage and water losses. Exposed water pipes and meters freeze, pipes sustain damage and meters burst. Izocam warns everyone that freeze-related bursts can be prevented by insulating water pipes and meters. Pipe diameter, external temperature and insulation thickness have a direct effect on pipes and meters. As insulation thickness increases, resistance to freezing increases and the freezing time of stagnant water extends. The easily applicable Izocam Valve Jacket prevents water meter bursts. The special insulation jacket, produced specifically for valves with an outer surface covered in silicone-coated fiberglass, provides thermal insulation solutions for all valves (piston, ball, butterfly valves, etc.) and strainers manufactured to DIN, ANSI, API standards in enclosed or open environments and prevents freezing. To solve this problem that can occur in any piping element where stagnant water freezes, Izocam Optiflex Pipe provides an easy solution. Made of polyethylene with or without aluminum foil covering, Izocam Optiflex Pipe provides insulation solutions for pipes against sweating or freezing.

Energy savings of 50 percent

Insulating water installations provides a solution to rising energy costs that burden everyone from individual users to tradespeople and industrialists. Izocam emphasizes that insulating heating and cooling installations in buildings not only enables reaching desired temperature and comfort conditions quickly but also allows temperature to be maintained for extended periods, providing energy savings exceeding 50 percent. In buildings where piping insulation has been installed, for example during winter months, hot water from the boiler reaching the building through pipes retains its temperature and therefore its energy until it reaches the apartments. Otherwise, the temperature in the pipes drops before reaching the apartment, the apartment heats slowly and since the water in the return pipe cools further, the boiler must expend more fuel (energy) to reheat it. A drop in water temperature in the pipes below a certain degree also reduces boiler efficiency. The preservation of water temperature passing through pipes is achieved only through insulation. With Izocam Prefabricated Fiberglass Pipe, manufactured from glass wool for hot water installations and interior use, it is possible to achieve the desired energy efficiency.