@@amberleary8705 Rockwool does not have a link with cancer, you may be thinking of asbestos (which is a horrible material). The rockwool fibres are bad, yes, but this is only an issue during construction, and can be solved by wearing protective gear. Once it's in the walls it's fine.
Wasn't sure what to expect when I saw the term 'stone wool'. The term is accurate: it's a soft material made of melted rock. Like Wool... it's fluffy and soft. Like rock it doesn't burn and it doesn't absorb water. Oxymoronic? Yes. Real? Very yes.
I had no idea that you could make wool out of rock. kind of mkaes me wonder if you can make clothes out of it. I'm sure it would not be comfortable, but just think of the novelty of wearing stone clothes.
Lord Kiyo There is protective clothing woven from basalt fibers. It's temperature and fire resistant, much like asbestos, but probably less carcinogenic.
Clearly no one of you guys, have worked with this material. It has fibers, that will fill your pores, that will microcut your skin, and it feels just like i described. not worth it guys :D
I used to work with this stuff! At Structural Panels Inc in Baltimore Ontario. Awesome place to work with cool people. Fun as hell too :P Hard work though, cutting this stuff sucks, when it gets into your skin it looks like razor burn almost, like whitehead pimples as it works its way back out of your skin. Plus its a pain to get the dust/cuttings off your skin, if you try to wash it the water just beads off and if you try to rub it off with a cloth it just forces it into your skin. The only way I got it off was with an air hose and light bursts otherwise it would just force it into your skin like the other ways :P Made you arms look like you had the worst and nastiest rash ever.
I tried both. I only use fibreglass now. The both produce splinters and seriously damaging airborne fibres. But the rockwool produced a lot more of them. My skin remained itchy for many days after the rockwool job. I would have needed a hazmat type suit to handle it safely.
hi i read a lot of bad things about rockwool but i need to make acoustic panels for the living room, where my kids go too. did i read that i am carcinogenic? that are bad for your health? Thanks for the reply
From Milton, just outside of Toronto here? I make acoustic panels with Roxul cores, and my living room is a home studio full of the panels, so I'm generally at arms length from a piece of Roxul a good 90% of my waking life. :) Ran into a couple execs (possibly your Dad) at a company called GlassCell Isofab over the summer. Seemed like really great people. Most definitely a great product! Kudos!
I was just thinking. The slag was already molten when it left the steel mill. Yet we let it cool, then later remelt it. Wouldn't it make more sense to add this to the output of the steel mill so it was all processed as a by product of the steel without the wasting of extra energy?
The rockwool plant I do maintenance at is about the size of a steel mill with giant cupolas designed specifically for this purpose. It contains a pile of other ingredients as well. The way it works is practical. Slag isn't even the main ingredient.
I thought I could start making stone wool at home, after watching this video I realized I can`t I am not sure if I can find this material in my country.
I'm no expert so why would one use stone-wool instead of fiberglass insulation or vice versa? I'm guessing it's because of stone-wool's fire resistance and better sound dampening?
that_G_EvanP you're correct in 25 years the only time I've seen it used is to fill in small gap's in fire rated wall systems usually above suspended ceilings.
Well, it's still the same idea as fiberglass, thin sharp strands of a solid, in this case stone. Both fiberglass and stone wool are very sharp on a microscopic level, which is what makes them itchy.
+Horticulture and Bonsai est2005 (Doug) The product they show here is insulation, specifically Safe and Sound 16". This factory also makes the Grodan product used in hydroponics, on the same line actually. Just uses a slightly different formula, and lacks binder. Still it's fun stuff, and interesting.
The aluminium foil insulation uses bitumen materials to separate the two thin foil layers. The bitumen is flammable. But many house fires are started by non flammable insulation. You put it in the cieling and cover wires or downlights with it. Now the heat cannot escape so they heat to such a temperature that a fire starts. DON'T cover wires with insulation.
R value measures the effectiveness of the insulation. R-13 is the lowest, ranging up to values of R-15 and R-30. You can use R-30 for attic insulation, since heat rises to and escapes from the top of the structure.
+Robert Glover thank you Robert for the detailed answer. and what are the numbers? the thickness of the mat? or maybe the denseness of the material? or any other meaning or indication?
I'm not sure about the exact demensions. Here's a link to Roxul's website www.roxul.com/ They have all of the product details. The mat's are approximately 2 x 6 x 1.5 meters in packaging.
+Robert Glover tx for the link. the `R value is the resistance to heat flow...www.roxul.com/files/RX-NA_EN/pdf/MSDS%20and%20Safety%20Bulletin/US%20Retail%20Insulation%20Fact%20Sheets%20(US%20CFR%20part%20460).pdf
I'm amazed at the complex machinery we come up with to make things that alot of people don't even know about.
I couldn't hear the alarm because the background music is so loud
That's how stone wool works. When there's a loud noise, it plays even louder background music so you can't hear the noise.
Science.
@@frank3manuel What alarm?
Stone wool - made from silently roaming herds of basaltic sheep.
Shear genius.
LEL SHEEP HAVE WOOL U SO SMART TO FIGURE THIS OUT XDDDDDDDD
Good stuff- wish they used it when my house was built. I really like the fire-resistant aspect of rock wool insulation.
yea...but remember that while the stone wool can resist temps of 1200C....the rest of the house cant...xD
Azarith I’d rather there be boulders in the river than nothing stopping it.
Yes but rockwool has been known to cause some cancer. It is bad for your lungs and the fibers sometimes get in your eyes
@@amberleary8705 Rockwool does not have a link with cancer, you may be thinking of asbestos (which is a horrible material). The rockwool fibres are bad, yes, but this is only an issue during construction, and can be solved by wearing protective gear. Once it's in the walls it's fine.
@@mortenrl1946 you can say the same thing about asbestos
I used this rockwool insulation in my tiny house. Fun and easy to work with!
Thank you. That is the most compactly informative video I have experienced. Cool machinery😊.
AWESOME STUFF!!! I replaced ALL of the fiberglass insulation to this stuff in my house!
That pun at the end really hit the rock bottom.
If you thought that was funny, you must be stoned.
Wasn't sure what to expect when I saw the term 'stone wool'.
The term is accurate: it's a soft material made of melted rock.
Like Wool... it's fluffy and soft. Like rock it doesn't burn and it doesn't absorb water.
Oxymoronic? Yes. Real? Very yes.
It's amazing how many rock and metal industries are fueled by coke.
+Xellos14 a lot of our industry used to be fueled by beer,until they started testing for it!
You know the guy delivering your fed-ex does meth right?
Xellos14 could you imagine how much more extreme it would be if it was made with Mt. dew
My cider got everywhere when she said that.
serotonin sandwich you know how to party my man. cider and insulation.......
i would love to hear how much of the sound is eliminated from the insulation... maybe if you stopped playing that crappy music!
Mann that music was fire
@@samhayzen to this day I still wonder how well this product sound proofs a home
They should have put the music in the box.
About to put this in the walls of my new sauna 😍
I had no idea that you could make wool out of rock. kind of mkaes me wonder if you can make clothes out of it. I'm sure it would not be comfortable, but just think of the novelty of wearing stone clothes.
Lord Kiyo There is protective clothing woven from basalt fibers. It's temperature and fire resistant, much like asbestos, but probably less carcinogenic.
ID ROCK IT! LOL PUN INTENDED
Lord Kiyo i
Paleo clothes
Clearly no one of you guys, have worked with this material. It has fibers, that will fill your pores, that will microcut your skin, and it feels just like i described.
not worth it guys :D
This Roxul plant looks way better than the Pink Panther plant doing glasswool.
we use this stuff as hydroponic planting media. of course, the uncompressed one so they can absorb water.
there is hydroponic rock wool cube for planting
I think every home in California needs to be fitted with these... It'd help a lot.
Wdym
This is the replacement for asbestos insulation. As a builder for 25 years I've only seen this stuff used as firestop in commercial buildings
We use it for insulation and soundproofing in residential buildings all the time
I used to work with this stuff! At Structural Panels Inc in Baltimore Ontario. Awesome place to work with cool people. Fun as hell too :P Hard work though, cutting this stuff sucks, when it gets into your skin it looks like razor burn almost, like whitehead pimples as it works its way back out of your skin. Plus its a pain to get the dust/cuttings off your skin, if you try to wash it the water just beads off and if you try to rub it off with a cloth it just forces it into your skin. The only way I got it off was with an air hose and light bursts otherwise it would just force it into your skin like the other ways :P Made you arms look like you had the worst and nastiest rash ever.
Use pantyhose. It grabs it and pulls it out.
Use long sleeves and gloves if you can. I hate the stuff.
Love it when you get sweaty, or work with this stuff in 40 degree heat. Man... How long did you do it for?
"it's been a wild and wooly ride"😂
We sell this at Lowe's I wish it would catch on better and replace fiberglass insulation.
I found stone wool crumbles over time. We have older stone wool and I pulled it, vacuumed out the crumbled dust, and put Fiberglass down.
@@edwardg9695 fiberglass breaks down over time too, falls apart when you try to handle it.
I tried both. I only use fibreglass now. The both produce splinters and seriously damaging airborne fibres. But the rockwool produced a lot more of them. My skin remained itchy for many days after the rockwool job. I would have needed a hazmat type suit to handle it safely.
@@smitajky I believe you. It is literally spun rock. Just like cotton candy is made basically. I prefer blow in insulation myself.
i'd like to know more about furnace and working principles of "spinning machine" instead of how the packing machine works
How It's Made in a nutshell
From what it looks like, it's literally identical to an industrial cotton candy machine, just a little bit hotter.
@@samhayzen yeah, seemed like so to me as well
i just was a bit sarcastic about their priorities
Look up fiberizer. That's what this industry called the spinning machine being used.
How good that we get a sound test in the video with fucking action music overlaping it totally
Ah right! It's like a cotton-candy / candyfloss process! Got it now. That was a great innovation from observing nature.
Coke's a hell of a fuel!
bro its the coal of coal. do you even know what its like to burn coal while you are coal burning?
Hi, does anyone know what is the binder used ?
Very Good...
this product is used for insulating asphalt tanker trailers. asphalt can be shipped at a temp of 450f. the outer skin is cool to the touch. ✌️
hi i read a lot of bad things about rockwool but i need to make acoustic panels for the living room, where my kids go too. did i read that i am carcinogenic? that are bad for your health? Thanks for the reply
When they said "fueled by coke," I thought she meant all the workers were doing lines when they make this stuff.
Did you see a single human soul in that video? It's all run by robots.
From Milton, just outside of Toronto here? I make acoustic panels with Roxul cores, and my living room is a home studio full of the panels, so I'm generally at arms length from a piece of Roxul a good 90% of my waking life. :)
Ran into a couple execs (possibly your Dad) at a company called GlassCell Isofab over the summer. Seemed like really great people. Most definitely a great product! Kudos!
Next up, would love to see a diy approach
i like stone wool. it doesnt hurt as much as glasswool
Leonelf you mean fucking fiber glass.... jesus christ
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_wool
Lol dickhead
You should give cellulose a try.
@@swainer8014 it's flammable
@@Leonelf0 Not when it is treated. Look up "the big burn". Cellulose actually outperforms even fibreglass.
Love this episode. Thanks for posting it. Would love to see the umbrella episode and the whip episode.
The process of making that fucking music was probably fueled by coke too.
I this the same rock wool that's used for cloning plants?
This is awesome.
I was just thinking. The slag was already molten when it left the steel mill. Yet we let it cool, then later remelt it. Wouldn't it make more sense to add this to the output of the steel mill so it was all processed as a by product of the steel without the wasting of extra energy?
The rockwool plant I do maintenance at is about the size of a steel mill with giant cupolas designed specifically for this purpose. It contains a pile of other ingredients as well. The way it works is practical. Slag isn't even the main ingredient.
well maybe if you didn't play the music we could hear the noise beeping in the box lol
Sound proof huh? This would make a nice sound booth. Or space ship with that 2200 degree resistance.
Kandi Klover stone wool can only withstand temps up to 1200 degrees. They say this in the episode.
Dustin Freeze no one has ever impregnated it with other materials like silica, which can withstand temperatures of 1,710°C or 3,110°F
soooo basically cotton candy made from rocks. so amazing what we can do nowadays
2:02 YUGE!!!!
lol
Hahaha
I wish the soundproofing property worked against the annoying background music...
I thought I could start making stone wool at home, after watching this video I realized I can`t I am not sure if I can find this material in my country.
If anyone has questions my dad is the VP of this company
We are supplying the whole line including packaging machine. If you are updating the machines, we will be honored to offer you a choice.
2:02 Yuuuge
Hard to believe that's made from rock!
Oh my god thats awesome.
how much energy is needed for one block to be made?
The energy needed to heat and melt basalt and steel at 1200 celsius? It's a lot. Probably the main reason it's so much more expensive than fiberglass.
3:46 you can do the same stunt with cotton fabric
Only real downfall that should be considered at least, is that it is not renewable. Only so much of this on earth folks
Is the binder formaldehyde free?
I'm no expert so why would one use stone-wool instead of fiberglass insulation or vice versa? I'm guessing it's because of stone-wool's fire resistance and better sound dampening?
that_G_EvanP you're correct in 25 years the only time I've seen it used is to fill in small gap's in fire rated wall systems usually above suspended ceilings.
its just better
It's made of LAVA. that is so cool.
that is awesome
the next video is about how they raise stone sheep to grow the wool
I wonder if this stone wool Insulation is hazardous to people's throat and lungs
@2:02 “Yuuuuge pendulum device...” She must be from Brooklyn
What is a “Uge” (2:04) pendulum device? Lol.
too bad that it can't block the annoying "music"
+RichardGMoss actually it does
+Benjamin I'd have to put my pc in an insulated box to achieve that!!
The lava theme music was lit sounded like monkeyball 2 lava theme
How do fragments of this compare to asbestos particles in terms of health hazard?
Wear a mask and protective clothing when dealing with this stuff.
I like this product but,man,is it ever itchy when installing it.
If there's no fibreglass,what makes it so itchy?
Well, it's still the same idea as fiberglass, thin sharp strands of a solid, in this case stone. Both fiberglass and stone wool are very sharp on a microscopic level, which is what makes them itchy.
Asia Experience
Asia Experience Rockwool and fiberglass are similar in the aspect that they both are made with thin strands of glass. That is why it is itchy.
Btw his name is Brian Levoguer if you don't believe me
Rock wool?
Is it soft? Or is it itchy like fiberglass?
It is itchy
It makes the fibreglass seem like a feather bed in comparison.
does stone wool block radiation?
so how can we use it for hydroponics if it's water resistant? It's deffo not water proof!?
+Horticulture and Bonsai est2005 (Doug)
The product they show here is insulation, specifically Safe and Sound 16". This factory also makes the Grodan product used in hydroponics, on the same line actually. Just uses a slightly different formula, and lacks binder. Still it's fun stuff, and interesting.
The fibers don't absorb water. It's not used in hydroponics to hold water it's used as structure for the roots to anchor themselves in
I wonder if you could add glue, and then turn this stuff into plywood.
That is rock?! No flippin way!
Jeff Sessions should ban How It's Made, because unlike weed, it's actually addictive and harmful to productivity and society.
hidroponik membawa saya kemari
That's really cool, except it can be cut to pieces by a water jet?
Tomalak Geret'kal Water jets can cut almost anything. They can cut through steel like it was butter.
Service tech's nightmare
Isn't asbestos the same thing or is this asbestos
It's Made From Coke LMAOOO
clearly this was not used in the London flats.
I know, I just read the Closed Captions
"The process is fueled by coke."
Are the leftover scraps fed to farm animals?
dude, no animals can eat rock, but hydroponic farming use them as planting media
The Student Official - birds eat stones in order to digest food in their gizzard
Comment in 2021... This is the future ! Unless something new has come up .. LOL
What type of insulation is flammable? The one that's responsible for the many house fires in Australia?
The aluminium foil insulation uses bitumen materials to separate the two thin foil layers. The bitumen is flammable. But many house fires are started by non flammable insulation. You put it in the cieling and cover wires or downlights with it. Now the heat cannot escape so they heat to such a temperature that a fire starts. DON'T cover wires with insulation.
@siaisjack why do you say this is fake?
Too bad the price of it is insanely high =(
r value, how does it work? 1 is very good 5 is substandard?
R value measures the effectiveness of the insulation. R-13 is the lowest, ranging up to values of R-15 and R-30. You can use R-30 for attic insulation, since heat rises to and escapes from the top of the structure.
+Robert Glover thank you Robert for the detailed answer. and what are the numbers? the thickness of the mat? or maybe the denseness of the material? or any other meaning or indication?
I'm not sure about the exact demensions. Here's a link to Roxul's website www.roxul.com/ They have all of the product details. The mat's are approximately 2 x 6 x 1.5 meters in packaging.
+Robert Glover tx for the link. the `R value is the resistance to heat flow...www.roxul.com/files/RX-NA_EN/pdf/MSDS%20and%20Safety%20Bulletin/US%20Retail%20Insulation%20Fact%20Sheets%20(US%20CFR%20part%20460).pdf
The real annoying sound is the music. why why why?
sound test would be more believable with a smoke alarm. Just saying.
"This process is fuelled by coke"
A UGEEE PENDULUM DEVICEE
That's not the only Process fueled by Coke.
4:35 they use a person for fiber glass insulation lol
basalt wool by melt blowing --!!-- கல் உடம்பு பூமி !!--!! துணிக்கு பஞ்சமா-!!!! ஆத்தா(மகன்]கிருஷ்ணா
The process is fuelled by coke? Sign me up
we want setup one stone wool factory in india....
Have you finished it? We supply the whole production line.
pretty much like making fiberglass....
If I had a dollar for every process fueled by coke
Its even dangerous as asbest
YUGE PENDULUM DEVICE
I’m filed by coke
You see how machines replaces many jobs, technology will continue this.
haha worlds smallest vocal booth 0:35!