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Blown-In Insulation
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" OK now we're talking. With mark long and Bob roundtree correct and this is all about installed fiberglass insulation that's blown in. But it's not the way we're accustomed to hearing about it right -- right well okay but tell me a little bit about the of the process."
" Well let's go look for it's made by the guardian corporation and it's sprayed on application -- about a 5050 mix water and material. The material has the adhesive additive in so when the -- mixed with the that adheres to the wall proper."
" With so that's the big advantage -- it's not like you're blowing. Fiberglass wool into cavities in old construction and remodeling job it's in new construction where you're spraying it up. And you don't have to have drywall up yet right the water's there to activate the glue in this that'll hold it in place OK now this says here that you get two or three times more fiber. And improved. What we've got here's. You when you spraying with a two and a half pound density rhetoric we're gonna receive an. So that is one of the keys is I know that. You know when we're trying to put in bats we're always trying to tape we're always trying to. Just kind of juggle it around him or herself -- around and -- this kind of application it covers entirely what about moisture getting into. Fiberglass and glass doesn't -- about any moisture assign it to activate the glue is going to evaporate that much faster if that's what it's doing just resting. And you have to worry about rodents or insects getting into well there's no nutritional value for fiberglass whatsoever."
" All right let it looks like there's a lot of waste involved in this installation. We'll actually Bob wrong. -- that it appears that bill lot of ways but this is totally recyclable product everything that's being scrubbed off the walls which Grover here. They've been vacuumed up and recycled back into the -- you begin vocational mean recycled on another job you know not Italy's longest job really being vacuumed up as it calls -- the wrong stuff right in front scrubbing down to the Doug raising associate -- nice and smooth now up. There I notice you didn't get any in the cavity between the -- and the studs what do you do up there well the reason for that is. We'll actually -- use the bad up there are you okay in areas where. The crevice if you Willis is it is smaller than the the nozzle itself you have to use regular old fiberglass batting that's right. This is really kind of construction kind of application is it more cost effective than using regular bats. That when more cost effective as little more expensive it is enough self. You're looking at an average house being St. Peter's square feet in between where the country and are now one last question do you need a moisture barrier. Yes we wait 24 hours Bob and it would come back the next equitable -- On top of this that I do not. But -- bear witness saying quite world graphics and short and UH what are still left the the water -- I think just slight amount or. And we let that dry over one more -- pergola thanks fellas that's very."
