Insulation

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Insulation
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Sarah House vs. Traditional House

• Other houses use Fiberglass Insulation
• Consisting of silica sand, limestone, and soda
  ash

• This house uses Ultra Touch
• recycled Levi jeans and other cotton products

http//www.bondinglogic.com
http//www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Fiberglass.html
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Ultra Touch
Fiberglass

• Silica Sand found in India
• Limestone found in India and China
• Soda Ash found in China
• Pollutants/wastes from open-pit and strip mining
  
• ground water build up (toxic soup) damages
  to land and organisms in the areas destruction
  of topsoil and habitat hard to restore air
  pollutants from machinery.
• (there are MANY other minerals involved in this
  process, but listed above are the 3 main raw
  materials)
• Sustainable minerals operations in the developing
  world
•  By Brian Marker pg 53
• http//sdjining.en.china.cn/
• http//www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-114169395.html
  
•  

• Borax found in Turkey, and CA, United States
• 85 recycled jeans and scrap cotton
• Pollutants and wastes from open-pit mining toxic
  soup, damages to land and organisms in area

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax
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Ultra Touch vs. Fiberglass

• No formaldehyde or other harmful chemicals (only
  borate)

• Chemicals/minerals such as silica sand,
  limestone, soda ash, alumina, borax, feldspar,
  nepheline syenite, magnesite, formaldehehyde, and
  kaolin clay

http//www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Fiberglass.html
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Process of Ultra Touch

• The denim is first collected, processed, and
  shredded back into fiber form.
• Then it is baled and transported to Bonded Logic
  Inc.
• The insulation is then treated with borate to
  make it fire and mold resistant.
• It is blended with binder fiber and goes through
  thermal bonding
• Lastly, the batts are cut to size and packaged
  for selling
• wastes and pollutants energy usage,
  carbon-dioxide emissions, effects of
  transportation, ZERO WASTE

http//www.bondedlogic.com/ultratouch.htm
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Process of Fiberglass

• This process is very long with 8 steps
• melting
• forming into fibers
• continuous filament process
• staple fiber process
• chop fiber
• glass wool
• protective coatings
• shaping/cutting.
• wastes and pollutants energy usage,
  carbon-dioxide emissions, effects of
  transportation, leftover wastes

http//www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/fi
berglass
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Price vs Effectiveness

• The cost of Ultra Light is about 1/lb
• The cost of Fiberglass is .20-.90/lb
• Ultra Touch is actually MORE effective at
  insulating homes than fiberglass
• Fiberglass is cheaper. But, fiberglass requires
  more resources, energy, raw minerals, and time to
  make than Ultra Touch. Ultra Touch produces no
  wastes and uses no raw minerals.

http//www.bondedlogic.com/ultratouch.htm
http//www.acehardwaresuperstore.com/owens-corning
-fiberglass-insulation-p-38239.html
http//www.soundaway.com/R13_16_UltraTouch_acousti
c_insulation_p/22001.htm