Properly insulating and air sealing your home can reduce energy use and increase energy efficiency.

Improve Energy Efficiency

Insulation improves the efficiency of any building by keeping the heated or cooled air inside. Heaters and air conditioners that run constantly use a huge amount of energy that not only affects your pocketbook, but also the environment. With the proper level of insulation in your attic, walls, and throughout your home or building, conditioned air will stay where it is needed, inside the structure. With additional air sealing, air infiltration is drastically reduced, complimenting insulation’s efforts to decrease energy consumption.

What about the environmental impact?

By properly insulating and air sealing, nonrenewable energy sources are conserved. The benefits of energy conservation are far reaching. Decreased dependence on foreign oil and lower greenhouse gas emissions are only two advantages.

How Green are the products?

We know that insulation helps conserve energy, but what about the insulation products themselves? The primary raw material used to make fiberglass insulation is sand, which is a rapidly renewable resource. Additionally, Certainteed’s fiberglass insulation products average 35% recycled glass content.

Icynene® spray foam insulation does not contain synthetic blowing agents, which have very high global warming potential. Icynene® does not lose r-value over time and can potentially eliminate the need for the installation/re-installation of additional material in the future.