Benefits Of Good Quality Insulation

Georgian Insulation Systems has a team of professional technicians who are some of the best in the industry. We’ll work with you to provide the best in energy efficient insulation for your home, commercial or agricultural building. With the proper insulation system it's possible to reduce your energy costs up to 50%, create a healthier environment, and improve the comfort of your home. 

The benefits of good quality insulation are:

Preserving Heat and Comfort

With proper insulation, in the winter months you conserve heat within your house and have uniform temperature, without cold spots and drafts. In the summer, your home is able to maintain cool temperature settings at a lower energy cost. The result is increased comfort throughout the year.

Keeping the racket down

With good insulation it will help keep the noises down. For example: if you live on a very busy street and cars pass every minute of the day, with a good insulation system you can reduce ambient street noise.  

Saving Energy

A good insulation system will reduce your energy costs up to 50%. Insulation makes your home heating more energy efficient so your heat system doesn't have to work as hard. With escalating energy prices, many homeowners are looking at ways to save on home energy costs. Premium insulation like spray foam insulation, has very high return on investment.

Environmentally friendly

The less energy you use the more it helps the environment. Conserve heat by making sure your home is well insulated. We have many High R-Value options to choose from including Walltite Eco. 

Georgian Insulation Systems is Central Ontario's premium spray foam insulation contractor. We're recommended by leading custom home builders, commercial design/builders, architects, home inspectors and our many customers. We provide Polyurethane Spray foam, Cellulose, Fiberglas, Roxull, Fireproofing, Insulation Removal, concrete slab lifting with injected polyurethane and epoxy crack filling.

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What Types Of Insulation Are There?

There are many types of insulation products and options available, all with competing claims, making it a challenge to sort the facts from the advertising. There’s also no shortage of self-proclaimed experts ready to weigh in on what they believe is the best insulation system.

While there are a large number of materials that could be used to insulate a home, the most used forms of insulation on the market today are:

Cellulose
Fiberglass
Spray Foam
Cotton / Denim


Cellulose

Cellulose insulation has been a tried and true method of insulating homes for decades. It is made from recycled newsprint and other recycled paper with one of the highest percentages of post-consumer waste content of any insulation. It is treated with recognized safe fire retardants. Numerous tests have shown that cellulose insulation is better at preventing the spread of fire in a building than other insulation products.

Its excellent sound insulating properties, its ability to provide an effective 1-hour fire rating, high R-value per inch, and industry leading environmental properties, makes cellulose insulation a perfect choice for insulating attics and sidewalls.

Cellulose insulation is blown onto attic floors or into wall and ceiling cavities, or is sprayed into open wall cavities. It is an excellent choice for adding insulation in walls of older existing homes due to the ease of installation.


Fiberglass

Fiberglass insulation is made from molten glass that is spun or blown into fibers. The recycled content of fiberglass insulation ranges from 0-40%, but that includes waste generated during manufacturing. Its most common forms are rolls and batts, which are used in wall cavities and attics and also in a loose-fill form that is blown-in.

Fiberglass is non-combustible, but it will melt in a fire, potentially allowing that fire to spread. Care should be taken when installing fiberglass to wear protective clothing and a respirator, per the manufacturer’s guidelines, to avoid direct contact with, or inhaling of, the glass fibers.


Spray Foam

Spray foam insulations are petroleum-based products and typically have little or no recycled content. They require professional installation, using special equipment to measure, mix, and spray the foam. Due to their ability to help reduce air leaks, they are often used in selected areas where the reduction of air leaks is critical, although it can be used throughout a structure. The cost to insulate using spray foam is typically significantly higher than other materials. Excess sprayed foam insulation from the job site can’t be reused, nor can it be recycled.


Bio-Based Foams

Ingredients derived from soy or castor beans are being added to some foam products in an attempt to produce a less environmentally harmful product. They also require professional installation and provide similar air leak reduction as standard spray foam insulations. According to Environmental Building News, these products contain approximately 40% bio-based ingredients and 60% petroleum derived products. It should also be noted that petroleum is used to drive the farm equipment and to produce the agri-chemicals used to grow beans.


Cotton / Denim

Another high recycled and more unusual product is recycled denim insulation. The insulation is primarily made with pre-consumer recycled cotton or denim waste collected from factories manufacturing jeans and other denim products. There are now some with programs targeting post consumer recycling of jeans and other denim products from consumers.

This product is environmentally friendly as it is made from a rapidly renewable resource. Performance is similar to other insulation batt products. It is easier to install than fiberglass since it does not contain the glass fibers. The cost to insulate cotton/denim is typically significantly higher than other materials and the product is not as readily available to consumers in many areas.

Georgian Insulation Systems is Central Ontario's premium spray foam insulation contractor. We're recommended by leading custom home builders, commercial design/builders, architects, home inspectors and our many customers. We provide Polyurethane Spray foam, Cellulose, Fibreglas, Roxull, Fireproofing, Insulation Removal, concrete slab lifting with injected polyurethane and epoxy crack filling. 

Combating a Cold and Moist Basement With Proper Insulation

As the temperature drops, you may find yourself avoiding your once beloved basement.  The cold and damp atmosphere which you enjoyed throughout the summer months has become uncomfortable, preventing you from enjoying your rec room, playroom or even guest room.

While there may be many contributing factors to a chilly basement, the number one cause is typically poor insulation.

Ontario Building Code previously recommended only the top half of basement walls to be insulated with a fiberglass blanket and plastic vapour barrier (see photo). This minimum code requirement does not provide an efficient insulation system as fiberglass is not recommended against a concrete surface. In addition, moisture can reach the vapour barrier, travelling from the outside damp ground to the drier interior, becoming trapped and leading to mould issues.

Modern building science now recommends that walls be fully insulated from the plywood floor above, down to the concrete. This is now code in new construction, however, if you live in an older home, you may find that your basement is often damp and cold.

Closed cell spray foam is the best way to insulate a basement wall. Not only can it seal your home from air moisture intrusion, it also protects your home from mould, airborne pollutants and other allergens.

Spray foam can be installed in many places, including:

• Basements
• Walls
• Attics
• Crawl Spaces
• Garage Ceilings
• Concrete Slabs
• Cathedral Ceilings

The cost of insulating with spray foam insulation can often be recovered in less than 5 years, simply through energy savings alone. 

Georgian Insulation offers Walltite Eco Spray Foam, made from renewable vegetable oils and recycled plastics, blended into a high performance spray polyurethane foam. 

Walltite Eco = High R-Vale
Achieve monthly savings of 40% or more 

Walltite Eco Spray Foam has a high R-Value, enabling it to provide more thermal resistance with less material than any other type of commercial insulation. Compared with traditional fiberglass products, you may save 40 per cent or more on your monthly energy and utility bill.

Georgian Insulation Systems, is Central Ontario's premium spray foam insulation contractor. We're recommended by leading custom home builders, commercial design/builders, architects, home inspectors and our many customers. We provide Polyurethane Spray foam, Cellulose, Fibreglas, Roxull, Fireproofing, Insulation Removal, concrete slab lifting with injected polyurethane and epoxy crack filling. Contact Us for a Free Quote - Or Call 1-866-576-9338.

Recent CBC Marketplace Program About Spray Foam Insulation - Not Representative of the Industry

Recently CBC Marketplace aired a program about spray foam insulation.  You may have seen it - but I believe it was not well researched and was based upon just one incident in Canada by an untrained installer.
This is how they promoted their program: 

CBC Marketplace: Renovation Nightmare

"Canadians are installing spray foam insulation in their homes in ever-expanding numbers. It’s sold as energy-efficient, easy-to-apply solution, but when the job goes wrong, it can be a nightmare for homeowners. Tom Harrington takes you inside the walls and up into the attic to explore a home renovation horror story, a foul-smelling foam job that’s driven a family from its home."

Ed Brassington, President and owner of Georgian Insulation (www.georgianinsulation.com) covering Barrie and central Ontario, is a well respected and a longtime spray foam insulation expert and advocate.  Ed has responded to the CBC market place program - with the following detailed overview of where they went wrong. Spray foam insulation is safe - when it is properly installed by well trained, certified professionals.

So make sure you get credentials and references before you buy spray foam insulation services. The CBC Story Was About An Application Mistake And Should Not Have Been About Dangerous Spray Foam Insulation.

If spray foam is installed in applications that are too thick, usually depths that are greater than two inches, then the foam will not cure properly.  The foam cures from the outside - in, and as it cures it creates heat, this heat becomes trapped inside the foam (because foam is a great insulator). The resulting exothermic reaction distorts the cell structure resulting in soft, uncured foam.  This can result in odours. 

This issue on CBC Marketplace was simply because the installer installed the foam incorrectly, it was applied too thick - in one pass. It is crucial to allow the foam to cure between layers and this was the application mistake.

Canadian Spray Foam Has Higher Standards. Spray foam in Canada has to have a CCMC certification number.  This means that it has been tested and meets the criteria of the National research council of Canada ( NRC) .  The Canadian testing standards are among the highest in the world.  However, some unscrupulous installation companies are bringing in cheap  non certified foam from the USA and offshore.   Spray foam in the USA is literally half the price of spray foam in Canada, because it has not been tested to our high standards and may not meet the Canadian requirements.  

Not All Spray Foam Insulation is Bad. There are tens of thousands of buildings in Canada that have been successfully sprayed with remarkable results and extremely satisfied customers.  CBC had to go all the way to Florida to find another similar story - In my opinion that does not indicate a problem with spray foam insulation usage in Canada. It indicates a problem with one unscrupulous company that did not ensure it's applicators are properly trained.

Spray foam in Canada has to have a CCMC # from the National research council of Canada before it can legally be sprayed. The manufacturer and the installation company and the installer have to be certified through CUFCA or Morrison Herschfield or an equivalent quality control organization. It is through the efforts of these third party organizations that spray foam has gained the popularity and trust that it has.  All Reputable Companies are Certified and Trained to Install the Product Properly.  Somebody messed up in this CBC case, as with all industries and trades out there, somebody did not follow the product installation guidelines. It does not make all spray foam insulation bad.

How many buildings have failed because of poorly installed fiberglass insulation? Where is the news story on those buildings?  How many walls have rotted because of warm moist air passing through fiberglass insulation, condensing on the exterior surface and leading to rot and mold issues.  How many attics have mold because the fiberglass insulation is not able to properly stop the heat passing through into the attic space? The Installation Company Should Have Taken Responsibility The company installing this product should have stepped up and taken care of the issue, they obviously did not. CBC Marketplace should have allowed CUFCA or BASF to present information on the quality control programs that they have in place in order to present a true balanced story. Both CUFCA and BASF have insurance programs in place to help remedy situations like this, to the best of my knowledge neither organization has ever had to use this fund to take care of a problem.

Spray Foam Insulation is one of the Most Tested and Scrutinized Construction Products on the Market. Spray foam is not Urea Formaldehyde, it is not fiberglass. It is far superior and is in a class of it's own. I am proud to sell and install spray foam insulation every day, it is simply the best product to hit the construction industry in a hundred years.  I am disgusted by the companies that do not train their installers properly, and those that refuse to follow the guidelines and recommended protocol, and those companies that do not stand behind their work. Either do the job properly or get out of the business and leave it to those of us that truly care about improving the efficiency of buildings, and that care about our customers well being. 

Georgian Insulation is based in Oro Medonte. We cover all regions around Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Bradford, Alliston, Midland, Gravenhust, Simcoe County, Muskoka, Haliburton, Dufferin, North York, Grey and Bruce.

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Walltite Eco Spray Foam is made from renewable vegetable oils and recycled plastics, blended into a high performance spray polyurethane foam.

Spray foam Insulation saves on energy costs and lowers utility bills. It is used to seal the entire “building envelope” of your home to prevent air and moisture infiltration. Air infiltrates your home in the form of drafts through walls, electrical sockets, windows, doorways and other penetrations. The need for additional air or vapour barriers is often eliminated, providing additional savings during construction.

The Polyurethane Foam that Georgian Insulation Systems,  installs, is Walltite Eco as seen on the  Mike Holmes TV show.  This spray foam is an excellent insulation material for all areas of construction. A modern custom building is expected to be an energy efficient building. Today’s educated building owners are demanding the superior, long term efficiency and performance that are only achieved with spray foam insulation.

Walltite Eco, is made from renewable vegetable oils and recycled plastics, blended into a high performance spray polyurethane foam. Walltite Eco, meets all the requirements of the National Building code of Canada and provides in one step, a long-term thermal resistance, an air barrier material and a vapour barrier. Walltite Eco, provides an aged R-value of R6.5 per inch; it also significantly improves the racking strength of a building by as much as 300%.

Walltite Eco= High R-Value | monthly energy and utility savings of 40% or more can be achieved

Walltite Eco Sprayed polyurethane foam has an aged R-value of approximately R 6.5 per inch, enabling it to provide more thermal resistance with less material than any other type of commercial insulation.  The R-value surpasses competing spray foams. SPF systems are frequently used to insulate and protect a wide variety of residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial buildings.

Monthly energy and utility savings of 40% or more can be achieved when compared to the traditional fiberglass products. The cost of insulating with spray foam insulation can often be recovered in less than 5 years, simply through energy savings alone.




Georgian Insulation is based in OroMedonte. We cover all regions in Simcoe County, Muskoka, Haliburton, Dufferin, North York, Grey and Bruce.

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