Is insulation dangerous?
Rummaging around in your friend’s newly renovated attic, you notice what looks like a rolled-up blanket in the far corner. You give it a kick, and the blanket unfurls onto the floor. It’s pink, and the material looks a little like cotton candy. You run your hand over it to see what it feels like, but you soon realize that was a mistake. Before you know it, your hand is red and itchy — you’ve just come in contact with fiberglass insulation. Home Design Image Gallery Insulating our homes is one of the most important parts of house construction, and insulation has a big effect on the costs of energy. Heat naturally flows from a warm space to a cool space, and our homes suffer from this transfer. In the winter, warm air from the inside will move to the outside and make us cold. In the summer, hot air moves from the outside to the inside and makes it uncomfortably warm
