{"id":285208,"date":"2017-06-07T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=97284b9a7c9f38ce760c9770032bd28c"},"modified":"2017-06-07T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T10:35:28","slug":"is-compressed-fiberglass-insulation-really-a-problem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/is-compressed-fiberglass-insulation-really-a-problem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Compressed Fiberglass Insulation Really a Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Or is this just another myth in the world of building science?        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/compressed-fiberglass-insulation-really-problem\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/bathroom-remodel-fiberglass-insulation-gaps-voids-compression-fill.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fiberglass batt insulation\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/compressed-fiberglass-insulation-really-problem\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/owens-corning-compressed-fiberglass-insulation-r-value-chart.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Owens Corning fiberglass compression chart\" width=\"144\" height=\"62\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been guilty of perpetuating a myth. Not long ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/questions-ask-your-prospective-builder\">wrote an article<\/a> in which I said installing insulation, &#8220;cavities [should be] filled completely with as little compression as possible.&#8221; But is compression really such a bad thing? Here on <span>GBA<\/span><span>GreenBuildingAdvisor.com<\/span>, commenter Dana Dorsett wrote, &#8220;Compression of batts is fine (resulting in a higher R\/inch due to the higher density) as long as the cavity is completely filled.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/compressed-fiberglass-insulation-really-problem\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3434],"class_list":["post-285208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-insulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}