Insulating Ceiling Paint - 1 Gallon

Amazing stuff

just like regular paint

I bought the insulating primer and did two coats, did 2 coats of the barrier paint, 2 coats of ceiling paint. Made no difference in temperature in the room. Lousy product and lousy customer service.

First, this product may have changed somewhat. I used it in 2009. But I can offer some thoughts on its insulating values, and the pros and cons of the Hy Tech ceiling paint back then.Briefly, the Pros:Does seem to cut heating and cooling bills.Looks pretty good.Not too expensive.Low in fumes.The Cons:Applies like pancake batter, not regular paint, and you need to do two coats. So given the two coats, about four times as much of your labor. Maybe that has changed, but I'm not sure how they could stuff ceramic into the paint and not have it be like pancake batter.In addition, it's sort of an off-white, beigy. My rooms were better with a ceiling white, so I top coated with True Value ceiling white. The overall result is quite good, but aesthetically we could have got the result with one coat of the True Value.How good does it perfom? It's hard to say. When you approach energy efficiency, you do every low-cost step, plus some higher-cost ones you think will pay back big. This is low-cost in materials, though the labor in a big room approaches ten hours, just for a ceiling.We did these things in our 1959 limestone ranch in south-central Indiana:Water-based foam blow into walls (that's high-cost, with a good payback).Added attic insulation.Tightened the crawlspace, and then insulated its walls with R-10 styrofoam.Put new storm windows on 14 windows.Caulked and weatherstripped wherever needed.Painted about 75% of our ceiling area with the HyTech insulated paint.Replaced all incandescent light bulbs.Replaced the furnace (unsafe) and AC (from 1970).Our heating bill is in the best 1% for 1600 square foot homes built in 1959. It is about $425/year. January bill is about $100. (natural gas, 95% efficient furnace). Our AC is about $30/year. Duke Energy rates us significantly better than a green home in our area in the graphs it sends out.So was it worth about $100 in paint and 20 hours of labor to use the Hytech Paint? Hard to say. I would say yes. One reason I think it's effective: about two evenings a week we have a fire in our wood stove (was a fireplace), for about three hours. The house is very long -- about sixty feet, and to get to the family room the heat has to move across 16 feet of living room, through a kitchen doorway, through the other kitchen doorway, into the family room. The heat seems to do this -- roll across the house instead of going up through the ceilings. Part of that is attic insulation, but ours is only R-30. The house feels as though the attic is more like R-50. If true, that would be the ceiling paint.

We put 2 coats on a ceiling according to how the manufacturer said. The room was no cooler. It took 1 gallon per coat. Can't get results anywhere to other reviews.