BioTex insulation is a Texas company dedicated to providing our customers with a superior product that will improve their quality of life and provide energy efficiency while protecting the environment. By controlling the ventilation in your home, you can keep harmful mold, bacteria and allergens at bay without resorting to harmful chemicals. A properly ventilated house is a healthy home. BioBased foam will minimized bacteria, pollen, and other allergens from seeping into your house as well as forming a preventative barrier against mold. You obviously want your home to be free of mold and allergens. When insulating foam is sprayed into wall cavities, it expands to fill all nooks and crannies. You and your family will breath cleaner air resulting in a healthier life.
The difference in a home insulated with spray foam insulation and one without is astounding. You feel the difference. You hear the quiet. With foam insulation, you have a sound barrier from outdoor noises as well as the noise from your HVAC units. Additionally, your HVAC is not running near as much when you have foam installed. Obviously, the most important difference is the clean air you and your family breaths.
Fiberglass insulation may soon go the way of the dinosaur. BioBased spray foam insulation dries in seconds to a solid, smooth finish. Once the insulation has been completed, it does not send particles of glass or anything else flying through the air. You can store your Christmas tree in your attic and not be afraid to retrieve it a year later. Your attic is sealed and free of dust.
Too often irresponsible builders will put the cheapest initial insulation into a house. This is usually cheap fiberglass. Unless fiberglass is done properly (which it rarely is), you will be breathing these fiberglass fibers for many years and paying dearly for the privilege. A responsible builder will use spray foam insulation. A truly green builder will use BioBased spray foam insulation. BioBased spray foam insulation will put a smile on your face. There are the government incentives such as "Energy Efficiency Tax credit for New Homes" and "Austin Energy Green Building" rebates and "Energy Star" tax deductions that help pay for your BioBased insulation. Combine this with the savings on your utilities and you will discover going green with your home insulation pays for itself many times over.
Ventilation is fresh air that enters a house in a controlled manner to exhaust excess moisture and reduce odors and stuffiness. Air leakage is outside air that enters a house uncontrollably through cracks and openings. During cold, hot, or windy weather, too much air may enter the house and, during calm weather, too little. Also, a leaky house allows moldy, dusty crawlspace or attic air that is often unhealthy. People pushing fiberglass push the idea that a house needs to breath. Wrong. A breathing house is nothing more than a house with leakage. You need controlled ventilation.
Spray foam insulation is applied as a liquid through two tubes. These two liquids interact upon exiting the installer nozzle. The spray is then applied into wall, ceiling, and floor cavities as a liquid. It immediately explodes into 100 times its size, filling all those holes, nooks and crannies as well as expanding around framing and wall outlets. Because BioBased foam spray does not shrink, sag, or settle. It is the perfect insulation and air barrier; insulating and sealing in one step. This may not be headline news for the Austin American Statesman, but it is a giant step forward in the insulation industry.
Foam installers come from all backgrounds. Many will be trained to mix and spray foam. However, when working in the construction environment, many have no training or experience. Dan Amon, the owner of BioTex Foam, has been an Austin area self-employed custom home builder: (Amon Homes) for many years before becoming a BioBased foam insulation dealer says, "In new construction, you are working as a team. You need to know how to get your job done without interrupting the work flow. We speed the job up, not slow the job down." At BioTex Foam, we respect the time constraints of the general contractor as well as other subcontractors. We work with everyone to get the job done without delay or conflict.
When you build a new house and install BioBased foam insulation, it reduces your utility bills enough to more than pay for the additional cost of the insulation. Plus, BioBased insulation can reduce construction costs. Fewer subcontractors are needed, you can often work with 2x4's instead of 2x6's, and BioBased foam has a higher R-value per inch than fiberglass insulation so you will be using smaller and less expensive HVAC units (resulting in lower utility bills).
BioBased has a higher R-value than fiberglass, but that is not the whole story. R-values are greatly over-rated. A better measure would be steady-state. Steady-state is the amount of time it takes the temperature of the insulating material inside the wall to equal the outside temperature and thereby quit providing any insulating barrier. Of course, as the temperature gets nearer to steady-state, the insulating properties lessen.
i.e. An exposed air conditioned house in Texas with fiberglass insulation will reach steady-state in about 3 hours whereas the same house with Biobased foam insulation would not come close to getting there (it would take 24 hours of intense, direct sunlight; something we have yet to see anywhere on earth!).
Leaks and poor insulation are costing you thousands of dollars annually.