Fiberglass insulation may not be what you think about when you think of home sweet home. However, learning about the many features and benefits of fiberglass insulation may help your home become more efficient and comfortable. You’ll spend vast amounts of time choosing the right wall color or the perfect cabinetry for your home. While these are important things to concentrate on, they have little bearing on your home’s performance, or the health of those who are living within it. It’s no wonder insulation doesn’t command the same attention as marble countertops. You can’t see any of it. Marble countertops you can easily change in 10 years. You have to live with insulation a lot longer. Considering the substantial benefits a fiberglass insulated home provides, understanding its role can go a long way toward taking better care of your home and family, as well as the environment.

Understanding R-value

Insulation’s effectiveness is measured in R-Value. R stands for the insulation’s resistance to heat flow; heat escapes from your home in the winter and heated air enters your home in the summer. The higher the R-Value, the greater the resistance to heat flow and the greater your potential for saving energy, natural resources and money. Insulation rated as R-19 will provide greater resistance to heat flow than insulation rated as R-13. Many different R-Values are used in homes today based on the needs of the application. For example, your walls may contain R-13 insulation and your attic could have R-38 material.

Did you know?

CertainTeed’s insulation saves more resources than it costs to make. For every BTU used to manufacture fiberglass insulation, an average of 12 BTU’s are saved yearly. In addition, CertainTeed is committed to promoting sustainable building practices and providing insulation products that contribute to green building. CertainTeed is a member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and has developed a comprehensive Building Science program that provides education on sustainable building techniques to save energy and improve building performance.

Energy efficiency, plain & simple

Installing Fiberglass Building Insulation is an easy, cost effective method to help conserve energy in residential and commercial new construction, remodeling, and re-insulation. In addition to its thermal properties, Fiberglass Building Insulation also provides excellent acoustical performance. It is compression packaged for ease of handling, and its broad availability of R-values, sizes and facings ensures the right product for the job.

Product description

A high-quality fiberglass batt or roll used in residential construction for thermal and acoustical insulation of walls, ceilings and floors.

Unfaced insulation is manufactured in increased widths to permit friction-fit installation in wall cavities. This insulation is used with a separate vapor retarder, such as CertainTeed’s MemBrain™, The Smart Vapor Retarder, or where a vapor retarder is not required.

Kraft Faced insulation is manufactured with an integral vapor retarder. The kraft facing includes attachment flanges at the edges that are used for either face or inset stapling. The kraft facing, applied with asphalt to the fiberglass insulation, has a vapor transmission (permeance) rating of one perm or less.

Benefits

• Thermally efficient to help fight rising utility bills
• Lightweight and flexible for easy installation
• Good sound absorption; reduces noise level wherever applied
• Inorganic glass fiber is noncorrosive; it will not rot or mildew or otherwise deteriorate
• Does not absorb moisture

CertainTeed insulation products improve building energy efficiency and reduce building energy consumption for the life of the structure. As a result, they help conserve nonrenewable energy sources, decrease dependence on foreign oil and lower greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the recycled content of CertainTeed fiberglass insulation meets the EPA minimum Recovered Material Guideline for fiberglass products consisting of pre-consumer and post-consumer glass cullet.

CertainTeed Sustainable Insulation is GREENGUARD Gold Certified for low chemical emissions into indoor air during product usage.