Re: [GBlist] Borax foam?

["Kenton Knowles" <gl0bal@grapevine.net>]

I know INSULSPAN uses treated EPS for their SIPs. You could ask them - http://www.insulspan.com

Kenton

----- Original Message -----

From: "Speireag Alden" <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>

To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>

Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:03 PM

Subject: [GBlist] Borax foam?

> Hello, all.
> 
> 
     When I re-do my earthen roof, I want to do it in such a 
way that 
> carpenter ants can't get established in it.  Several 
times in the 
> past, people on this list have mentioned expanded 
polystyrene (EPS) 
> and extruded polystyrene (XPS) which has borax in it 
for insect 
> resistance.  I've spent several hours looking around on 
the web, and 
> I can't find a maker, or where I might order it.  
I've even tried 
> Dow's site.
> 
>      
Can anyone steer me to a brand name, or a source, or a 
> manufacturer, or 
any lead at all, for sheets of EPS or XPS with borax 
> additive?  
I'll take it from there.  Thanks.
> 
> -Speireag.
> -- 
> You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it 
> will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher 
> 
(1803-1882) 
> 
> 
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