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A year ago, after the construction of the house was completed, the question arose of choosing a heater for the walls. A lot of options were offered, some praised mineral slabs, others ecowool. I decided to start with ecowool to insulate the floor and walls on the veranda, which I planned to use as a living room in the winter. He did not lay the insulation himself, but hired a team, which, using a device like a vacuum cleaner, distributed material under drywall.Builders assured that in this way ecowool granules penetrate into all cracks, gaps and create a monolithic coating. All the work of warming the veranda took half a day.
A year later, I decided to evaluate the results. What can I say, the veranda did not freeze in winter, although the temperature sometimes reached -40 degrees at night. Vata is really natural and safe for the lungs, I judge from my own experience. I have a child who is allergic and has cough and runny nose for some building materials. The noise has decreased, if earlier I heard voices on the street beautifully at night, now I only serve sharp sounds. There is no draft, and at the same time, the humidity in the room remained at a normal level, that is, as promised, the insulation breathes, letting in air.
In the summer, having removed part of the floor, I decided to see the state of ecowool. The lumps remained dry, the insulation did not sag, mice often ran under the house during construction, and I thought that they would feel great in cotton wool. But I did not find traces of their stay, just as there is no fungus and mold.
It seems to me that if ecowool retains part of the heat and lasts longer than mineral insulation, then its price will be justified in several years. I'm going to insulate the garage, and in a year, if everything is fine, the whole house. The only bad thing is that you need to hire a team - in a manual way, I think you won’t put ecowool so carefully.
pros
Safety for health, high sound insulation, warmth in the room, speed of installation with special devices, lack of traces of the activity of rodents, insects, fungi, breathability.
Minuses
The price is higher than for some miniplates, with manual styling the process is long and not of such high quality, dust gets into the eyes, on the face, so you need to wear a protective mask.