Rockweiler Insulation Receives Super Service Award

Rockweiler Insulation has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award, an honor bestowed annually on approximately 5 percent of all the businesses rated on the nation’s leading provider of consumer reviews on local service and health providers. This is Rockweiler Insulation’s fourth consecutive year receiving this honor.

“We take our relationship with our customers very seriously,” says Renee Wilson, VP of Operations for Rockweiler Insulation. “From our management to our installer team, we are all responsible for customer satisfaction. Receiving this award is a great acknowledgement of that mission.”

“Only a fraction of the businesses rated on Angie’s List can claim the sterling service record of being a Super Service Award winner because we set a high bar,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “The fact that Rockweiler Insulation can claim Super Service Award status speaks volumes about its dedication to consumers.”

Angie’s List Super Service Award winners have met strict eligibility requirements including earning a minimum number of reports, an exemplary rating from their clients and abiding by Angie’s List operational guidelines.

Ratings are updated daily on Angie’s List, but members can find the 2011 Super Service Award logo next to business names in search results on AngiesList.com.

Hybrid Insulation Systems Give Best of Both Worlds in Performance

Courtesy of Lucas Hamilton, Manager, Building Science Applications for CertainTeed Corporation.

While making a presentation recently at the Oakland Space and Science Center in California, the topic of fiberglass versus spray foam insulation came up and was quickly followed by questions about hybrid insulation systems. It seems like a lot of people have hybrids on their mind these days.

One of the positives about spray foam is that the insulation itself is air resistant. The gas or air which does the majority of actual insulating is trapped in bubbles inside the plastic foam matrix and can’t be washed out by air flow. Now that we recognize the influence of air leakage on a home’s energy consumption, many builders and homeowners are trying to get their houses as “tight” as they can. Installing spray foams where air is leaking through the building envelope can reduce that flow rate. One of the issues people struggle with when considering foams as a solution has been their cost- they can have a significantly higher installed cost than fibrous insulations.

For this reason, in some markets, contractors are turning to hybrid insulation systems often referred to as flash and batt insulation. To fill a 2 x 6 inch empty wall cavity, first add a flash coat of closed cell foam on the exterior wall to a thickness of 1 -2 inches then take a low density batt to fill in the space before the drywall is installed. What you get is the best of both worlds – the inexpensive high R-value of the fiberglass batt combined with a smaller amount of foam which gives you the air tightening effects desired.

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Declare Your Energy Independence

No one is immune from the images and newsfeeds regarding the BP oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. From all indications, it will be a long time before we recover from the effects that this event has and will have on wildlife, the economy in the Gulf region, the health and beauty of our southern coastal regions and, ultimately, the cost of oil.

So maybe now is a good time to Declare Your Energy Independence.

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Home Energy Labeling – Leveling the Playing Field in the Housing Market

Home energy labeling could be a great motivator for encouraging homeowners to jump into energy improvements. The emerging trend toward creating energy labels on homes, similar to the energy labels on appliances, is one way to encourage homeowners in older homes to buy into the benefits of upgrading and the necessity to keep pace with other homes in their neighborhoods.

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CertainTeed's InsulSorb© Could Soak up Oil Spill in the Gulf

The oil spill in the Gulf has brought out thousands of inventors with ideas and solutions that could, potentially, soak up the oil floating through the ocean, disrupting the delicate balance of sea life, and heading for our southern shoreline. However, there are some solutions that have been tried and tested but have not been deployed to anywhere near their full potential.

True, the most important action right now is to stop the oil flow and British Petroleum (BP) Oil, as well as agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been working tirelessly to accomplish that goal.

The hope is that whatever solutions they adopt to clean-up the spill will not cause additional environmental problems.

CertainTeed has worked with inventor Jeffrey Brelsford and his company S.E. Squared to develop unbonded, fiberglass blowing wool that can be used in booms and pads (and other methods such as direct application) that are capable of absorbing oil spills on land or water. This fiberglass product is called InsulSorb©.

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