If you’re looking for an environmentally friendly product that can help maximize the energy efficiency of your home, cellulose insulation is the way to go. Made from mostly recycled materials, cellulose loose-fill insulation is considered one of the most environmentally friendly insulation products on the market today.
Whether you need to insulate your whole home or just your crawl space, cellulose is an effective solution. Really, it’s great for any area of your home and provides many of the same performance characteristics as fiberglass insulation, like sound control.
If you want to insulate your home using cellulose, the experts at Green Star Plus can help. We can inspect your home and tell you where you need to insulate and how much insulation you need!
Benefits of Cellulose
In addition to helping decrease your energy bills, cellulose insulation:
- Reduces outside noises
- Makes your home’s interior more comfortable
- Has a high R-value (almost 4 per inch)
- Has environmentally friendly characteristics (contains more than 80% recycled material)
- Can decrease or eliminate air infiltration
With cellulose insulation, you truly get what you pay for. Your home is guaranteed to be more comfortable and energy efficient! And if you want to go green when insulating or re-insulting your home, as one of the most environmentally friendly types of insulation, cellulose is the best you could ask for.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Does Insulation Reduce Noise?
Limiting the transmission of sound from one location to another requires a material that encloses the source of the noise and forms a barrier between the source and the adjacent area. This is exactly what insulation does. Fiberglass and cellulose are the best types of insulation for soundproofing purposes.
How Is Cellulose Environmentally Friendly?
Cellulose insulation consists of up to 80 percent recycled material (primarily newspaper), and it takes less energy to make than other types of insulation. If the paper put into landfills every year were used to make cellulose insulation, it would save approximately eight million tons of CO2 emissions!
