Installing Pink® Batts® insulation is one of the smartest investments you can make in your home.
Pink® Batts® insulation keeps the heat in when it’s cold and the heat out when it’s hot. Without insulation, heat continually escapes from your home – mostly through the roof but also through the doors, floors and windows. This means heating your un-insulated home is largely a waste of heat and money.
By protecting your home against unwelcome cold and heat, Pink® Batts® insulation will measurably increase the quality of life inside your home. A smart move indeed.
Made mostly of recycled glass, Pink® Batts® insulation leaves a light environmental footprint. And by using less energy, you’re also helping NZ to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Pink® Batts® insulation helps to protect your family’s well-being. By keeping your home warm and dry, it prevents mould and dampness – the triggers of respiratory illness.
You can be guaranteed that your Pink® Batts® insulation will last for years – at least 50 years, if installed in a dry protected space.
Comfort
With Pink® Batts® insulation, you can enjoy the luxury of a warm, draught-free home, protected from winter’s chill and summer’s heat.
Pink® Batts® insulation wraps your home in a protective blanket, preventing precious heat from escaping during winter and sweltering temperatures from baking your home in summer.
The Pink® Batts® range offers different levels of thermal protection, depending on your need.
Banish draughts and damp
Floor insulation has a big impact on your home’s comfort level. Most houses are standing on cold soil or rock, so heat leaks out into the earth. As heat trickles out, moisture seeps in from the soil under your house. In fact, around 25 litres of moisture a day can enter your home from the damp ground beneath the floor.
Pink® Batts® SnugFloor® is under floor insulation that fits snugly under wooden floors, preventing heat escaping through gaps. It also keeps the damp out, so your home is both warmer and drier.
Saves money
A vanishing trick
When you heat an un-insulated home, most of a home’s heat vanishes through the ceiling.
The more heat escapes from your home, the more you turn up the heating and the more you pay for power. Trapping warmth with insulation will stop your heat, and heating bills, going through the roof.
Pays for itself over time
Installing Pink® Batts® insulation not only saves you money on power bills, it also pays for itself over time.
In fact, installing ceiling insulation into an otherwise un-insulated Wellington house (150m²) would pay itself back in four years. And after 20 years, this homeowner would benefit from a net saving of over $3,000, according to BRANZ research.
Greatest protection
If you want the best in insulation ask your designer and builder for products from the Pink® Batts® Ultra® range. This range of premium insulation will help you to enjoy greater long-term cost savings and additional comfort.
Sustainability
Our commitment
We want to ensure that Pink® Batts® insulation has the lightest possible environmental footprint, thereby helping to preserve our environment for present and future generations.
How it’s made
Pink® Batts® insulation is predominately made from up to 80% recycled glass and sand. By reusing the glass to make insulation, we reduce the amount of landfill each year by the equivalent of 60 rugby fields in size.
The recycled glass is locally sourced from suppliers near the manufacturing plants to minimise transport costs. Energy used during the manufacture of Pink® Batts® products is offset by the energy saved by a fully insulated home within a three to 15 month timeframe.
Environmental Choice New Zealand
The Pink® Batts® Ultra® ceiling and wall insulation and Pink® Batts® Classic R3.6 ceiling insulation have been awarded the Environmental Choice New Zealand accreditation.
Environment Choice New Zealand accreditation identifies a product as less harmful to the environment than other similar products. More
Continuous improvement
We routinely evaluate our manufacturing and distribution processes to find ways to conserve resources and energy and to reduce our environmental impact.
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Product safety
Pink® Batts® insulation is made from glass wool, a common form of insulation that is used around the world to insulate homes and buildings.
Glass wool is one of the most researched products in the world. Its safety for human use has been established by research undertaken over the last seventy years (International Agency for Research into Cancer).
How safe is glass wool?
Safe to use?
Why?
How?
For humans
For non-carcinogenic (does not cause cancer in humans)
Proven to be safe for humans. Any fibres inhaled during installation quickly dissolve in the body.
For humans and the environment
Formaldehyde-safe
Tests prove tiny levels of formaldehyde in Pink® Batts® insulation pose no health risk to humans or the environment. More
In a fire
Will not catch fire or melt easily
Non-combustible - will not burn if exposed to fire.
What about fibreglass and asbestos?
Fibreglass and asbestos are two types of materials that have different effects on people’s health.
Pink® Batts® insulation has never been made from asbestos material. It is a safer product than fibre glass and asbestos. More
Properties/Materials
Glass wool
Fibre glass
Asbestos
Not cancer-causing (non- carcinogenic)
Your body dissolves & gets rid of fibres (bio-soluble)
Healthy living
Living in a cold, damp home is, without doubt, bad for your health.*
Research shows that people living in houses which are colder than 16°C are more likely to suffer respiratory illnesses than those living in warmer homes. The World Health Organisation recommends that indoor temperatures should be at least 18°C for healthy living.
Cold homes trigger ill-health
Having a warm and healthy home is not just a case of turning up the heater. Poorly insulated and ventilated houses, together with cold temperatures, encourage mould, mildew and condensation – the key triggers of asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory illness. Dampness also encourages the spread of dust mites, the major cause of allergy in New Zealand.
By protecting your home from the cold and damp, Pink® Batts® insulation prevents the growth of mould, mildew and dust mites.
* Howden-Chapman, P. et al. "Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community" British Medical Journal, 2007, p.334:460
Sensitive Choice programme
Pink® Batts® wall and ceiling insulation has been accepted into the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand Sensitive Choice Programme. This acknowledges the benefits of insulation in helping to reduce dampness, mould and mildew, which leads to healthier homes.
Assurance
Lasts for 50 years
You can be guaranteed that your Pink® Batts® insulation will last for years – at least 50 years, if installed in a dry protected space (according to the BRANZ Durability Statement.)
Once you’ve installed your insulation, you can forget about it, knowing it will keep on doing its job for years to come.
Independent verification
BRANZ has appraised the following Pink® Batts® products and issued assurances that these products meet the purpose for which they were designed and intended.
The Pink® Batts® manufacturing process is continually assessed to ensure production meets quality standards. Pink® Batts® insulation is manufactured in plants with AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 certification (certified as adhering to an international quality management system).
This means you can always count on us to make Pink® Batts® insulation to a very high standard.
The Pink® Batts® Ultra® ceiling and wall insulation and Pink® Batts® Classic R3.6 ceiling insulation have been awarded the Environmental Choice New Zealand accreditation.
For humans
Pink® Batts® wall and ceiling insulation has been accepted into the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand Sensitive Choice Programme. This acknowledges the benefits of insulation in helping to reduce dampness, mould and mildew, which leads to healthier homes.