Recently, I was invited to a BS and Beer meeting (BS stands for Building Science) at a home under construction near Kansas City, MO. The meeting featured an installation demonstration of TimberHP’s TimberFill wood fiber insulation. This new loose-fill wood fiber insulation was being blown into the attic and dense packed into the walls. Two representatives from TimberHP, Business Development Manager Dan Edelman and Field Education Specialist Matt Damon were on hand to answer any questions and teach the installing contractor the best practices for installing the TimberHP’s loose fill insulation. Being a new product, there were many questions during the BS and Beer meeting. The most common where:
Doesn’t wood fiber burn?
What happens if the insulation gets wet?
How do you keep bugs from destroying the product?
Lucky for Dan and Matt, all three questions are answered the same, the product uses borate. So, what is borate?
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