Product Details
• open cell foam
• closed cell foam
• fiberglass batting
• cellulose
The Green Cocoon™ installs insulation products that safely provide comfort and quiet for our clients year round, including soybean based foam, and blown in cellulose. We also offer fiberglass batting.
Main Properties of Our Most Popular Product Group: Soybean Based Spray Foams
The Green Cocoon™ features the installation of soybean-based, water-blown spray foam. There are (2) foam types: open and closed cell. Sprayfoam offers the best weather protection over other insulation types. The foam can harden either into a spongy (open cell) or denser solid (closed cell) material, offering more eco-friendly and sustainable insulation, air barrier and sound attenuation qualities than standard foam, but are comparable in price. Save considerable heating and air conditioning costs by having The Green Cocoon install soybean based spray foam in your residential, institutional, industrial or commercial buildings.
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"A typical 2,500 sq ft home insulated with [closed cell] BioBased 1701 will use about two acres of soybeans and eliminate the use of over 700 lbs of petroleum derivatives, while reducing energy consumption 30-50% annually for the life of the home." (CIRAS Iowa State University)
Additional Features of Sprayfoams
As Insulation
Both open-cell and closed-cell foams stop the movement of air and slow down the transfer of heat. Closed-cell foams have low vapor permeance due to their cell structure. Depending on thickness, it may be considered a vapor retarder but not a vapor barrier. In climate zones 6-8 a vapor retarder system may be required on the warm side of the insulation relative to the design of the wall or ceiling system. Closed-cell foams also have a high compressive strength which allows them to be used for exterior applications.
Open-cell foam should never be used for exterior applications. Open-cell foams are more cost effective per unit of R-value than closed-cell foams but do not provide the structural contribution to a building that closed-cell foams do. (excerpted from biobased.net)
Air Barrier
Soybean based spray foam is the best air barrier of the insulation types, with the closed cell foam being the very best.
Sound Attenuation
Soybean based spray foam has significant noise reduction properties over other insulation types. Applications include elevator shafts, demising walls between condominiums & apartments, hospital quiet rooms, offices and hotels.
We are pleased to discuss your specific application and determine the best material to use.
Note that all of our products are Class 1 fire rated and approved by the ICC, UBC, IRC, Energy Star, and GreenGuard. Both of our current foam manufacturers, BioBased and Demilec, are *GREENGUARD Environmental Institute certified
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