Protect Your Home—Effectively

GreenFiber Insulation forms a monolithic blanket of protection—blocking air infiltration and convection currents that are both primary causes of energy loss.

Imagine heating your home in the winter or cooling your home in the summer…and then leaving the front door open. If you add up all the possible air leaks in a typical home—cracks at the joints in the frame; small spaces around windows and doors; areas around pipes, ducts, vents and electrical outlets—it can have the same effect as an open door or window. When batt insulation is cut or forced to fit around irregular shapes, gaps can result that enable air to pass right through. That's called air infiltration or air leakage, and it can account for as much as a third of heat loss in a home.

GreenFiber Insulation, however, is blown or sprayed into place, preventing gaps and stopping air leaks better because of the way it's applied. And GreenFiber Insulation is two to three times more dense than comparable fiberglass batts. That means heated air can't transfer through dense GreenFiber Insulation as easily as it does through typically installed fiberglass.

Installing insulation properly is the first step in making sure your home is more comfortable and energy efficient.

One important component of any home is the pressure barrier. The pressure barrier is defined as a continuous plane that separates the conditioned area of the building from the unconditioned area. Drywall is the most common pressure barrier in construction today.

Insulation should always be in direct contact with the pressure barrier of the building. This standard of effective thermal installation means that the insulation has no gaps, no voids, no compression, no misalignment and no wind intrusion.