Saturday, March 31, 2012

New Building Material - Eco insulation

This is the new way insulating your roof if aerolite (Think Pink) is not your option. It is a product that has been tested and proven. This product also reduces air leakage between walls and ceilings and also easier to cover the hard to reach places.

Eco-insulation is made 100% out of recycled newspaper. It is pumped into the ceiling or wall cavity by professionals. Eco-insulation presents sustainable low embedded energy content.  The thermal resistance specified by this product is also exceptional and covers a great amount of area.
This product was awarded a ‘Company Excellence award for the year 2008’ by the South-African Energy Efficiency Association for their contribution towards energy saving.

Treated with a specially formulated fire retardant, Eco-insulation is tested and classified in accordance with SANS 428 and is fire rated – No spread of flame. 


The second quality that caught my eye is the fact that Eco-insulation has a natural ability to become an integral part of the ceiling, wall or floor by filling all the gaps and irregular spaces and therefore producing a significant improvement in noise suppression. Eco-insulation has a noise reduction co-efficient of 0.90 (90% sound energy absorption)

This is also a non-toxic and non-irritant product containing no pesticides, requiring no special clothing to handle it. It is resistant to biological and fungal attack and is unattractive to insects and rodents.

Eco-insulation blown onto the ceiling to prevent any air leakage.

Minimum blown in thickness of 125mm gives you an R-value of 3.29, which would suffice if you take in consideration the values given by the roof tiles / sheeting added. This means that one product could replace the combination of the two we are currently specifying on plans.

Before the insulation is blown onto the ceiling space each down light is covered with a metal cup to prevent insulation to interfere with the light fittings. 

After the insulation was blown onto the ceiling space. Clearly the cups are still visible and this way access to the fittings are not restricted.

For more information follow this link: http://www.eco-insulation.co.za/


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