Why we don't use Spray-foam or Fiberglass products.
We care about people. When we can keep families and business safe from fire and prevent installation of hazardous materials. We are having a successful day!
This may help you understand why we, as a company, chose Xcell Cellulose.
Foam (Low Density Spray Foams/Polyisocyanate ½ lb.)
"What’s wrong with foam? I thought it was a good Insulator!" most would say. Well it is a great insulator but it's very hazardous if and when it burns. But will those foam guys tell you that? Well no.
If you were to look at the MSDS of foam (actual MSDS in sidebar) in 'Section 5: Stability and Reactivity Data'. There's a sub-section of 'Hazardous products of decomposition:’ which lists products of foam burned. The first few are expected and are dangerous but could be lived with, but there's the one that isn't spelled out like the rest of them, HCN. Looks like they're tyring to deceive us.
What's HCN? Hydrogen Cyanide is highly lethal. It takes only 300ppm to kill someone within 8 minutes. That's like taking a tablespoon of it and putting it into a regular size in-ground pool (25,000 gal.), and everyone would be dead in 8 minutes. But that's just that type of foam isn't it? No, all polyisocyanate foams are chemically the same.
Fiberglass
First off fiberglass is not an insulator. The idea of taking a conductive material (glass) was irrational and no different than snake oil in its effect use.
Cellulose
