So you’ve decided to insulate your business’ cold water pipes– congratulations! There’s just one question: how are you going to do it? You’ve heard of two different types of insulation: a pipe wrap and a spray-on pipe insulation, but you can’t decide which to go with. What are the advantages of each? Why should you insulate your pipes at all?

Why Insulate your cold water pipes?

Insulating hot water pipes makes sense, because you want the heat to stay trapped within your pipes, but what about your cold water pipes? What’s the point of cold water pipe insulation? Well, there are a couple reasons:

• Preventing freezing. If your business is in an area where it gets cold in the winter, your cold water pipes could be prone to freezing. Insulating those will prevent your cold surfaces from becoming even colder and freezing, which if you hadn’t already guessed would be incredibly bad for your business.
• Preventing condensation. On the other hand, people who live in places with a lot of humidity and hot weather may experience some condensation, sweating and dripping if their cold water pipes aren’t insulated properly. Insulating those cold water pipes will prevent your pipes from dripping water everywhere.

The right techniques for applying cold water pipes insulation

There are a couple of ways to insulate your cold water pipes, every different type has different uses as well. Without further ado, let’s dive in and explore each one.

• Wrap: There are two types of the “wrap” insulation, your “conventional foam” and your “self-sealing foam”. The first is, as the name implies, rather conventional. Long tubes of foam wrap around your pipes and are taped together, creating a seal that will keep your pipes protected from cold and humidity alike. The second self-sealing foam is a lot like the first, however it has its own sticky tape, so you can just form your foam around your pipes and stick the foam together. No external tape required.

The issue with the wrap is that sometimes, you’ll hit a corner or a gap that’s too hard to wrap in your special insulation. Instead, you’ll have to use another method to insulate those pipes, which would be:

• Spray: Once again, as the name implies, professionals will often spray on this insulation using unique pressurized cans. It’s used mostly for odd shapes like valves and pipe fittings, hard to reach places, especially where there isn’t a lot of space between the wall and the pipe.

So you know what you’ll need to keep those pipes insulated, but what should you use? Continue reading for the answer that you seek.

Pipewrap: Anti-Sweat cold pipe spray-on insulating coating

Let’s explore Pipewrap, the Anti-Sweat cold pipe spray-on insulating coating. This spray-on pipe insulation ensures that your pipes is sweat free. The aerosol spray is flexible and water resistant, which means not only will it stop sweating in its tracks but it’s great for all those hard to reach places in your piping systems. Here’s some other features Pipewrap: the Anti-Sweat cold pipe spray-on insulating coating boasts:

• Dries to a clean, flexible, white insulating coating.
• Adheres to stainless steel, black iron, galvanized, brass and PVC pipes.
• Excellent for repairing wrap around, sleeve or foamtype insulation.
• Durable, paintable & water resistant.
• Non Flammable when dry
• For use on: cold water pipes, refrigeration lines, condensers lines, cold air ducts, valves and pipe fittings, water tanks, metal gutters & ice machine coils.
• Stops damage caused by dripping water.

All in all, Pipewrap: Anti-Sweat cold pipe spray-on insulating coating  is probably your best bet for when it comes to insulating the hard to reach places on your cold water pipes. So next time you need to make sure your cold water pipes are kept from sweating, think Brodi.