The smart choice is gold.
Insulation acts as a barrier to heat flow. The amount and type of thermal insulation in your home can really affect how comfortable your home is all year round, it will also determine how often you need to use expensive air conditioning or heating.
When you’re thinking about ceiling and external wall insulation, Bradford Gold insulation offers a range of R-Values in New Zealand and provides the ultimate in comfort and energy efficiency. The higher the R-Value, the better the resistance to heat. The higher the R-Value, the less energy you need to heat or cool your home.
Nothing beats peace and quiet. That’s why acoustic insulation is an important consideration when you’re thinking about home comfort. Bradford Acoustic Gold really is New Zealand’s most popular and trusted acoustic insulation because it really screens out unwanted noise. Keep your home comfortable by reducing unwanted external and internal noise with acoustic insulation.
Wrap Up Against the Elements Say goodbye to moisture by allowing your building to breath.
Your home needs to breath in order to maximise comfort. Enviroseal ProctorWrap HTX Wall Wrap and Roof Underlay products are highly vapour permeable, allowing moisture to pass through whilst keeping liquid out. Recommended for colder climates.
Bradford provides a number of other different products which help improve comfort in your home, including the fitting of sub-floor insulation and Edmonds roof ventilation. These additional energy saving and home comfort products can be quoted for at the same time as your initial insulation enquiry.
Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is just as important for your home as fuel economy is for your car. If your home is not energy efficient you are effectively wasting energy.
With electricity and gas prices rising at significantly higher rates than inflation, this can be costing New Zealand households big dollars. If your utility bills exceed $1,000 per quarter you really should ask what you are getting for this and whether there’s a better way to spend your hard earned money.
Methods for changing your energy use can be much more proactive than turning off the lights when not in use or avoiding the clothes dryer. If you’re building a new home or renovating, energy efficient home design allows for a smarter approach to saving power.
Heating is expensive and typically accounts for around 30% of a household’s annual energy consumption.
Saving energy is also sustainable. It makes the best use of our non-renewable resources and reduces pollution. This helps protect our fragile environment for future generations to enjoy.
For the environment
Making your home more energy efficient is an easy and proven way to reduce your carbon footprint.
Reducing your carbon footprint
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified that buildings represent around 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions (due to the energy they consume). Making your home more energy efficient is an important step towards reducing your carbon footprint.
The “carbon” in your carbon footprint is carbon dioxide, and evidence suggests that it is one of the main contributors to global warming and climate change. So what can we do?
One of the best places to start is by reducing your heating, which can be as much as 30% of your total home energy requirements. A recent global report* declared, “Insulation is the most cost effective way to address greenhouse gas abatement.”
A Bradford home incorporates a whole-of-home approach to help maintain a more comfortable temperature all year round. You‘ll also be less reliant on your energy-hungry heating and cooling appliances.
Environmental benefits of Bradford products
Bradford glasswool is made from up to 65% recycled glass content. It comes from recycled bottles which are not suitable for recycling in flat or container glass manufacture. This means that our products not only reduce the demand for sought after natural resources but also help in freeing up landfill space.
With regards to our manufacturing processes, Bradford aims to be environmentally sustainable and is continually finding better ways to utilise new technology that can reduce our greenhouse emissions.
Bradford glasswool has also been tested and found to contain no ozone depletion substances.
Health
Insulation is necessary for a healthy home
Glasswool insulation products are not hazardous. They are safe to install and use in your home or in other insulation applications for the life of the building.
In 2002, the World Health Organisation completed more than 30 years of research which included over 60,000 insulation workers. The study concluded that there are no long-term serious health risks resulting from an exposure to insulation fibres.
To further ensure the safest product possible, in 2001 Bradford made the decision to change the formulation of our glasswool and rockwool insulation to ‘bio-soluble fibres’. These fibres are less bio-persistant meaning that if you do happen to inhale some fibres, they leave the body more quickly and are not considered to pose any risk to your health.
Bradford still recommends you to wear protective clothing if you decide to install these products yourself so you can avoid any skin and respiratory irritation.
Bradford glasswool has also been tested for Volatile Organic Content (including formaldehydes). In both cases for glasswool ceiling segments the results are negligible or immeasurable.
You can identify bio-soluble fibres by the FBS-1 logo on our packs. For more information please go to the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ website.
Bradford Gold insulation and Bradford Acoustic Gold are also Partners with Sensitive Choice® program, improving the quality of life for those with asthma and allergies.
Bradford products are performance guaranteed
Bradford comprehensively tests its glasswool segments for thermal performance. If you would like to review our test certificates and product warranties you can contact Bradford directly.
Bradford’s Gold and Optimo insulation ranges are also covered by our 70 year performance warranty.
Sustainability
Bradford Insulation Group has been manufacturing energy saving insulation in Australia since 1934.
The generation of energy using fossil fuels has resulted in greenhouse gas emissions, which have been linked to global warming and climate change. Insulation contributes to a more sustainable environment, by reducing energy consumption in buildings and industrial processes.
Bradford supports sustainability in three key ways:
- Improving the living and working environment through greater thermal and acoustic comfort
- Saving energy and reducing the associated greenhouse gas emissions
- Reducing waste through environmentally sound manufacturing
Bradford Insulation’s glasswool is manufactured from up to 65% recycled glass, waste flat glass and bottle glass, depending on availability. In addition, the remaining glass is made primarily from sand – an abundant resource.
Our glasswool plants:
- Recycle all water used in the manufacturing process
- Use high efficiency world class process control technology
- Maximise compression packaging to reduce transportation energy use
- Comply with all relevant product and manufacturing standards including ISO9000 and AS/NZ 4859.1
Bradford glasswool insulation products last the lifetime of the building and can be fully recycled, if left in their original condition.
Bradford glasswool insulation uses no ozone depleting products (ODP) in manufacture, have low volatile organic componds (VOC) and low allergen, and have low embodied energy.
Bradford glasswool are amongst the world’s most sustainable building products.
70 year warranty
Bradford Insulation warrants that Bradford Gold will not pack down, shrink, support mould, rot or deteriorate and, when installed in accordance with our directions, will last the life of your home – 70 years from the date of product installation!
