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• How to Choose Your Contractor - they aren't all the same!
• Facts You Should Know about Insulation
• Your Home. Your Decision.

Insulation Doesn’t Cost...Insulation Pays...THREE ways!

1. Saves you Money!
   Stabilized Spray Cellulose Insulation is the most cost effective investment that you can make and provides up to a 40% return on investment (ROI) for your after tax dollars.
2. Makes your home healthier!
   Stabilized Spray Cellulose Insulation improves your indoor air quality. Most insulation fibers are known irritants to many of you who suffer from allergies. Non cellulose insulation fibers also harbor insect and rodent population. Damage from bugs and rodents also creates problems for your family if you are allergenic. Rodents not only thrive in most insulation, they create problems on the exterior of your home also.
3. Let’s you join the Clean Green revolution!
   Stabilized Spray Cellulose Insulation is eco friendly. It saves our landfills by recycling newspapers and other paper products into insulation. It also takes 10 to 12 times less natural resources to manufacture than oil based insulations.

Just Calling Larry Saves You Money

• The insulation you decide to purchase will affect you and your family (or anyone) for as long as you live in your home.
• You may pay off your mortgage but you will never pay off your utility company.
• Energy improvements are all paid for by your utility company. Let our Comfort Partner show you how.

A special message from Larry:

From the day that I learned how to do what is called a load, (determine the amount of energy need to heat or cool a home), I have known that the most important factor in occupant comfort and economical operation was insulation. This is what is called the Thermal Boundary of your home or office. The paradox was that the only insulation that I knew about was fiberglass and I am severely allergic to fiberglass.

For example, I can go into a house that is in the painting process that has had drywall applied over fiberglass insulation and within a few minutes I will be choking. If I go outside the attack will subside in about 10 – 15 minutes. As you can imagine I want nothing to do with fiberglass. As I tell our customers, fiberglass turns me every which way but loose. (An old Kansas colloquialism)

At the time of this basic loads training, I did not know about the House as a System or about Pressure and Thermal Boundaries. In the early 90’s when I learned about the House as a System, I learned about the failure of installed fiberglass to achieve rated R-values and how it related to problems we were having such as finished rooms over garages. We had installed many new homes that did not work. We had run loads calculations on the construction components as they were installed but the rooms did not work. Imagine my surprise when I learned that Guardian Fiberglass put the following caveat in their literature”

“About half of all wall cavities in residential construction are nonstandard in width and height or obstructed with wiring, pipes, and other things. Any void area in conventional batt insulation can reduce the R-value significantly.”

What they did not tell me then and I learned much later was that anytime air moves through insulation, it effectively reduces the R-value by 50 to 80%. This is what happens in finished rooms over garages, Cape Cod style homes, and homes with disconnects in the Pressure Boundary. 

I learned then that cellulose could help but what I learned about was dry and very dusty and also being allergic to dust, I avoided getting involved at that time. In 1998, I found out about Stabilized Spray Cellulose which is almost dustless and works wonderfully when installed by doing what it says it will do. (achieving its rated R-value) I researched manufacturers and visited other installers and in 1999 TSC (now Five Star Plumbing Heating Cooling) began to provide insulation services based on the Stabilized Cellulose method as manufactured by Applegate Insulation Company.

Three other things about Stabilized Cellulose also attracted me. It is made from recycled newsprint so I feel good about it not going into the land fill. It is makes the home more quiet and comfortable. It uses boric acid to achieve fire resistance standards and boric acid will kill bugs. It is not a pest control product but it does reduce bugs per our satisfied customers reports.

Stabilized Cellulose is also a great help in solving Pressure Boundary problems. Two thoughts:

1. The insulation you decide to purchase will affect you and your family (or anyone) for as long as you live in your home.

2. You may pay off your mortgage but you will never pay off your utility company.

More Resources (all in PDF format):

1.  It's Your Home. It's Your Decision.
2.  Air Infiltration Sites In a Home
3.  Energy Design Update - Cellulose and Airtightness, More Surprises 
4.  Energy Design Update - Research Shows Increased Building Tightness With Cellulose Insulation
5.  Home Energy - Shoot the "Pink Marauder"
6.  Energy Design Update - New Crawlspace Data