TAP Insulation

Thermal Acoustical Pest prevention for attics is a great way to permanently protect your home from pests while effectively insulating your home. TAP insulation resists unwanted heat transfer, and unlike fiberglass insulation, it controls pests, keeps homes quieter, helps limit the spread of fire, and lowers energy costs. TAP is a great green option because it is a cellulose-based insulation with borates, so it performs pest control with fewer products, is natural, permanent, and minimizes the energy cost of cooling your home.

Paper, especially newsprint, is a major component of the residential waste stream and a major disposal problem for communities throughout the nation. Installing TAP in a 1500 foot new ranch-style home productively recycles as much newsprint as a family will consume in 40 years. It not only recycles the waste but removes it from the waste stream permanently, greatly saving landfill space!

Most cellulose insulation is made with a high percentage of locally-generated raw materials. Other than the borates, which are about 11 percent of TAP by weight, it is not necessary to transport raw materials long distances to cellulose insulation plants. In addition, recycling newsprint locally as cellulose insulation makes it unnecessary to expend energy transporting it to distant landfills or de-inking plants. TAP insulation is a great green option!