| Adhesive tape is used for various applications in many | | | | Since vapor/radiant barrier is, typically, aluminum foil |
| industries. Tapes come in wide variety of different | | | | reinforced with Kraft paper and fiberglass yarn scrim, |
| types and each of them is designed to serve specific | | | | another kind of adhesive tape is designed to seal joints |
| tasks. For example, in the heating, ventilation, and air | | | | of radiant and vapor barrier. Usually, adhesive FSK |
| conditioning (so called HVAC industry) adhesive tape | | | | tape is applied on the similar insulation facing. Thus FSK |
| or so called pressure sensitive adhesive tape are used | | | | tape is used for FSK faced duct wrap, FSK faced |
| to seal mechanical ventilation systems and insulation | | | | duct board, or FSK faced insulation in many types of |
| joints. | | | | residential and commercial buildings. Simply speaking, |
| The kind of the tape that will be chosen for specific | | | | for the normal performance of insulation facing or |
| application depends on the: | | | | radiant barrier every joint has to be sealed with the |
| Surface | | | | adhesive FSK tape. |
| Application conditions | | | | There are many other kinds of adhesive tape used for |
| Service temperature and moisture conditions | | | | the air-conditioning, heating, ventilation industry as well |
| Specific service requirements | | | | as for the insulation. Various types of adhesives |
| For example, foil tape or the most common aluminum | | | | provide broad range of application conditions from a |
| foil tape is used to seal seams and joints of the sheet | | | | very cold (-35 degrees F) temperatures up to very hot |
| metal ducts and their connections to the flexible duct. | | | | temperatures (250 degrees F). There are also flame |
| Foil tape is also often used in the air conditioning to seal | | | | retardant adhesives, high stick adhesives etc. There |
| joints of flexible ducts to the air grills. So to speak, foil | | | | are also many more types of reinforcement, which are |
| tape in the air conditioning and ventilation industries is | | | | designed for different surfaces, applications, insulation |
| used as often as a thread in the garment industry - | | | | facings and radiant barriers. |
| whenever you need to join parts and seal the seam | | | | For almost anything you do in insulation, air conditioning, |
| from leaks - aluminum foil tape comes handy. | | | | or ventilation, the installer would need a roll or two of a |
| As for the insulation industry, in now days, it is a | | | | good quality self adhesive tape, and a wide choice of |
| common practice to use fiberglass insulation covered | | | | these products is available. |
| with the vapor and radiant barrier (so called facing). | | | | |