Green Fiber Insulation
Our Green Fiber Insulation completely fills gaps and voids around irregular objects such as wiring, plumbing and framing materials in attics and walls. Green Fiber provides effective resistance to heat flow for thermal applications, noise control for acoustical treatments, plus fire resistance and fire blocking (under the Family of International Codes as published by the ICC, International Code Council. Refer to ICC ESR-1996.)
Decreased Convective Heat Loss
Convection is the transfer of heat by means of air current. Natural convection results as air warms, becomes less dense and rises. Cooler air replaces this air. Then this air warms and the process continues, thereby forming convection current. Studies by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Building Technologies at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory confirmed that natural convection occurs within loose-fill fiber glass. The fiber glass specimens tested “revealed that as the temperature differential increased apparent conductive resistance (R-value) of the insulation decreased by as much as half the estimated nominal thermal resistance of the insulation. Loose-fill cellulose, initial testing indicates, allows no such convective patterns to develop. R-values increased as the temperature difference across the cellulose increased the opposite effect that the fiber glass exhibited. The researchers concluded that the cellulose tested did not allow convective losses as the fiber glass had.”
Reduced Air Leakage
Green Fiber Insulation demonstrates its effectiveness in reducing air infiltration over fiber glass insulation in walls. The reasons are as simple as Green Fiber Insulation.
