Building Insulation - Residential

Installing Fiber Glass Building Insulation is an easy, cost effective method to help conserve energy in residential and commercial new construction, remodeling, and reinsulation. In addition to its thermal properties, Fiber Glass 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.

DESCRIPTION

• A high-quality fiber glass 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 fiber glass 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
• Noncombustible per ASTM E 136 (unfaced only)

CertainTeed building insulation complies with ASTM C 665 and other specifications as listed on corresponding product specifications.
Download Product Specifications, Submittal Forms and MSDS here.

CertainTeed recommends that its products be installed according to the recommendations of the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA).

Refer to CertainTeed’s Lifetime Limited Insulation Warranty for Fiber Glass Building Insulation.

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 fiber glass insulation is currently 30-35% and exceeds the EPA Recovered Material Guideline for fiber glass products, consisting of pre-consumer and post-consumer glass cullet.

Most CertainTeed fiber glass insulation products have been certified by the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute and meet the GREENGUARD standards for low Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions, including formaldehyde.