Air migrates from warmer spaces toward colder spaces and insulation is designed to help prevent or at least slow that migration.
Fiberglass attic insulation vs reflective.
If your attic has a lot of nooks and crannies your best bet may be to use loose fill insulation made of fiberglass or cellulose.
What is the right insulation for an attic.
Which is better will depend on the topography of the specific roof you re insulating.
Radiant barriers and reflective systems.
The key to using reflectix properly is that you should take a little time to understand how reflective insulation works in the first place.
Remember traditional attic insulation has r value that works to slow conductive heat.
Radiant barriers reflect radiant heat.
The radiant barrier resulted in roughly 4 times more savings than the added insulation.
The sun heats up the roof and then the heat is transferred by radiant heat across the attic space until it hits the attic insulation.
Next i compared adding an additional r 19 to my existing r 19 level of attic insulation vs installing radiant barrier and the results actually surprised me a little.