What kind of insulation is "Maximum Fill"?

Our Komfort about the same year....(see sig. Pic below) has some kind of foam board/blocks sandwiched in the walls, ceiling and floor. Looks to be about 2 inches thick throughout.

Keep in mind that all trailer manufacturers tack fancy names onto what is essentially nothing all that special or different.
They are trying to sell, and "Maximum Fill Insulation," sounds better than, "Normal Fill Insulation."

The Komfort will have higher R values than many trailers, but you will still use AC or heat depending on where you are.

If you look at the '09 brochure, it calls the insulation in the exterior walls "maximum fill" insulation and in the ceiling and floor as well (item 3,13 & 31).

As mentioned above, it could be just marketing lingo. They do not say if it is batt or rigid foam type insulation. I note that the construction of the TT has aluminum studs 16" oc. so the construction is not a composite/sandwich wall construction with rigid foam typical of many TTs with fiberglass exteriors, which *might* mean that the insulation is batt type. If there are no receptacles or switches mounted in exterior walls, that might indicate that the insulation is rigid foam type though.

Maybe "maximum fill" to them means that all possible voids in the walls, ceiling and floor cavities are totally filled with insulation (ie., no air gaps and empty spaces). I've seen some pretty poor insulation jobs that comes from the factory with batt type insulation and they often just shove it in over wiring and joists, leaving a lot of voids which can significantly reduced the overall insulation value.

Just thinking out loud, with all that aluminum framing, it may conduct more heat to the exterior in the colder weather and all the reason to want better insulation. If the insulation is rigid foam and there are no recepts. and switches in exterior walls, that would be a better and desired design and especially if it truly is maximum 100% fill in all wall cavities. The brochure says it has some very good R values for the walls, floor and ceiling.

I would suggest that you take down a skylight trim, fan trim or speaker and see if you can see the insulation in the ceiling space and if it seems to have been done okay. I don't really know anything about the Komfort brand, but judging by the details in the brochure, it seems to be a good design with some nice features.

The present owner states that the floor insulation is a sprayed in foam, but he doesn't know about the walls. Is it possible that it is spray foam?
What kind of quality are the 09 Komfort Trailers and what kind of reputation do they have...i see a lot of them out west, but I had never seen one in Manitoba before, so I am unfamiliar with them.

downtheroad wrote:
Our Komfort about the same year....(see sig. Pic below) has some kind of foam board/blocks sandwiched in the walls, ceiling and floor. Looks to be about 2 inches thick throughout.

Keep in mind that all trailer manufacturers tack fancy names onto what is essentially nothing all that special or different.
They are trying to sell, and "Maximum Fill Insulation," sounds better than, "Normal Fill Insulation."

Is it possible it's spray foam? It's not batt insulation though? Can you pm me a picture of your trailer?

I know this years too late but... Do you have the Thermal Max Package? If so its R18 floor, R17 roof, R7 walls

It does have the thermal package. After we got the trailer home from Idaho we had all kinds of electrical problems. We discovered that squirrels got into the bottom level and chewed all the wires. Brake wires and tank sensor level wires....pretty much everything. I removed the corrugated plastic and all the fiberglass insulation from underneath. I had to drop all the holding tanks to replace & repair all the sensors in the tanks and replace all the 12V wires. This meant cutting all the drains and vents too. For some reason the squirrels didn't touch any of the 120V wiring. When I got it all back together I hired a guy to spray foam the entire underside with closed cell polyurethane foam insulation. I put in the Horst Miracle Probe sensors into the tanks and I have to say they work much better than the button style original ones. The electrical all works 100% now as do the tank level sensors. The floor is so much warmer with the spray foam instead of the water soaked fiberglass that was in there from the factory. It's also much quieter inside the trailer with the spray foam. There are no cavities for squirrels or mice to get into now, as it's all sealed with spray foam.

"R" rating has more meaning than "maximum fill"

Find out the R rating.

It has the Thermal Package so it's supposed to be R-18 floor, R-17 roof and R-7 walls. I can tell you for fact the fiberglass in floor was no where near R-18 as it was water soaked. The polyurethane spray foam I replaced it with is a much better insulation and will not absorb water, with the added benefit that rodents don't like it.

You'll find somewhere on the brochure 'specifications subject to change'.

All of the specs are nearly meaningless without verification.