For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting seems to be
a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R values can be
purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or breathing filters required
for installation. It's made from the leftovers of blue jean manufacture.

Has anyone here thought of or used this product?

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/

Roger W. Norman wrote:
For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting seems to be
a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R values can be
purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or breathing filters required
for installation. It's made from the leftovers of blue jean manufacture.

I assume they must treat it with fire and rodent retardants?

Kurt Albershardt wrote:

I assume they must treat it with....rodent retardants?

What chemical retard rodents?

PapaNate

Exactly. Unless you treat it with massive doses of plutonium, this will turn
into a *Habitat For Rodentity* project. Anything short of plutonium will
likely be considered hor'dourves.

;o)


"Papanate" wrote in message
...


Kurt Albershardt wrote:

I assume they must treat it with....rodent retardants?

What chemical retard rodents?

PapaNate

"Roger W. Norman" wrote in message


For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting
seems
to be a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R
values can be purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or
breathing filters required for installation. It's made from the
leftovers of blue jean manufacture.

It's just dyed cotton batting, right?

Has anyone here thought of or used this product?

Cotton batting or just plain old cotton rags has been investigated as
speaker stuffing. It works, and the tighter you stuff it, the better
it works.

Papanate wrote:

Kurt Albershardt wrote:

I assume they must treat it with....rodent retardants?

What chemical retard rodents?

Heavy doses of wafarin. Invented and used during WW1
as a war gas. Now commonly used as rat poison and an
anticoagulant medication. Give an animal or human a little, and
their blood takes longer to clot. Give them a lot and they bleed
to death with the slightest cut or bruise.
This has been today's *wham* useless fact.


--Dale

Roger,

Has anyone here thought of or used this product?

I've never bought it or used it in a product, but the manufacturer sent me a
sample to try. The first thing I did was hold a lighter under it. As soon as
I saw how it smoldered and smoked, that was all I needed to know it was not
for me.

The danger of fiberglass is greatly overstated. Yes, you can get a little
itchy working with it, so use gloves and a face mask. Problem solved.

--Ethan

In article ,
Roger W. Norman wrote:
For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting seems to be
a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R values can be
purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or breathing filters required
for installation. It's made from the leftovers of blue jean manufacture.

I've never heard of it! Where can I see it for sale?
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Animix wrote:
Exactly. Unless you treat it with massive doses of plutonium, this will turn
into a *Habitat For Rodentity* project. Anything short of plutonium will
likely be considered hor'dourves.

They don't sell plutonium here any more, 'cause kids use it to get high with.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Kurt Albershardt wrote:
Roger W. Norman wrote:
For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting seems to
be
a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R values can
be
purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or breathing filters
required
for installation. It's made from the leftovers of blue jean
manufacture.

I assume they must treat it with fire and rodent retardants?

It's treated with boric acid as a fire retardant, and it should also keep
the roaches down. Don't know if it does any good against mice, tho.

Jeff Jasper
Jeff Jasper Productions, West Monroe, La.

;o)

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
Animix wrote:
Exactly. Unless you treat it with massive doses of plutonium, this will
turn
into a *Habitat For Rodentity* project. Anything short of plutonium will
likely be considered hor'dourves.

They don't sell plutonium here any more, 'cause kids use it to get high
with.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Yep. Environmentally it's friendly, treated with stuff to dissuade bug
invasion, although I can't honestly say it's rodent proof. It has a high
STC rating, though it wasn't specified on the "home improvement" program I
caught it on. Certainly better than using straw bales! g

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/
"Kurt Albershardt" wrote in message
...
Roger W. Norman wrote:
For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting seems to
be
a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R values can
be
purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or breathing filters
required
for installation. It's made from the leftovers of blue jean
manufacture.

I assume they must treat it with fire and rodent retardants?

I don't know, but it's a normal insulation batting, so perhaps Georgia
Pacific or whatever would stock it for wholesale. This is not the first
time I've seen a reference to it on home improvement shows, and since it's a
blue jean manufacture waste product, it's not like we're talking about
recycled old blue jeans. It's supposed to have a high STC rating.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Roger W. Norman wrote:
For sound properties, envionmentally friendly blue jean batting seems to
be
a good idea for studios and for homes in general. Regular R values can
be
purchased, no fiberglass itchiness, no gloves or breathing filters
required
for installation. It's made from the leftovers of blue jean manufacture.

I've never heard of it! Where can I see it for sale?
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Ethan Winer wrote:
Roger,

Has anyone here thought of or used this product?

I've never bought it or used it in a product, but the manufacturer
sent me a
sample to try. The first thing I did was hold a lighter under it. As
soon as
I saw how it smoldered and smoked, that was all I needed to know it
was not
for me.

Fiberous Cellulose, which is approved for insulating homes, is normally
treated with Boric Acid.
Boric Acid is a naturally occuring agent that not only deters insects
it enables the treated product to become fire resistant. It will
smolder. However, it is not likely to catch aflame.

The danger of fiberglass is greatly overstated. Yes, you can get a
little
itchy working with it, so use gloves and a face mask. Problem solved.

--Ethan

Fiberglass fibers (if ingested or inhaled) have been found by the state
of California to be a danger to health. Not so with treated cellulose.

Paul

One of the things that fiberglass doesn't do is evaporate moisture very
well, which cotton does (else why wear it during the sweaty months of
summer? g). Now I dare say that, although not dangerous in walls, wearing
fiberglass wouldn't provide this benefit to one's body. g PLUS, unlike
fiberglass, which needs to be fluffed to provide the rated R value, blue
jean batting only works better, both in R and STC value when stuffed into a
wall space (layering, don't you know). At least that's what the claim is,
which is why I was asking.

--

Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
http://blogs.salon.com/0004478/
"Ethan Winer" ethanw at ethanwiner dot com wrote in message
...
Roger,

Has anyone here thought of or used this product?

I've never bought it or used it in a product, but the manufacturer sent me
a
sample to try. The first thing I did was hold a lighter under it. As soon
as
I saw how it smoldered and smoked, that was all I needed to know it was
not
for me.

The danger of fiberglass is greatly overstated. Yes, you can get a little
itchy working with it, so use gloves and a face mask. Problem solved.

--Ethan

Roger W. Norman wrote:
One of the things that fiberglass doesn't do is evaporate moisture very
well, which cotton does (else why wear it during the sweaty months of
summer? g). Now I dare say that, although not dangerous in walls, wearing
fiberglass wouldn't provide this benefit to one's body. g

Cotton absorbs moisture, making it a spectacularly poor choice for cold
weather wear. You may have noticed that hot weather athletes are also
using non-wicking synthetics.

Auralex has a product like this -- SonoFiber. We used it in our control
room treatments here at the University. Seems to work fairly well. It
is Class A fire rated.

Graham