Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ottawa waffling blamed for hard times by Ingeborg so Yew the Federal governments inconsistent stand Oft Treft lation has contributed to the demise of 180 insulation arms Over the past four according to Winnipeg Don president of the Toba insulation contractors Assoc a said a ban on foam insulation has frightened some homeowners into thinking All insulating materials Are leading to declines in business activity even among firms which never handled they have destroyed a Good Indus he although urea formaldehyde insula Tion was first introduced in it was banned by the Federal government in the Dan was lifted in 1976 despite warnings from the National research in the National association of attorneys general in the called for a Stop to sales and the state of Massachusetts began hearings the following year which led to the prohibition of other states soon followed while All this was going the Federal government introduced the Ca Nadian Home insulation the Chip program encouraged the use of foam insulation by offering Home owners Grants to insulate their the expected surge in demand also attracted Many new insulation companies into the when the Canadian government again pulled the foam off the shelves last insulators were left to take the the result has been a decline in the number of Winnipeg insulation companies from about 250 listed in the City phone Book in 1977 to about 70 two Winnipeg custom insulation systems and big Jim insulation experts declared bankruptcy during the past few in both the Federal ban on foam was cited by owners As the principle cause of their Sherry partner i big Jim said dozens of her customers have called to accuse the com Pany of installing Poison insulation in their but she insisted the foam has no ill effects on health if it is installed pro the Samyn Ashens Home is insulated with the offending yet neither the couple or their to children have harmed in any she Ernie part owner of Atlas applicators said the ban Cut into his business almost ail of atlass business had consisted of injecting the Walls of older Homes with foam he the foaming equipment sits Bruhn also said there is nothing wrong with the insulation if it is applied trouble both the Mica and provincial i eminent officials said Tome Fly part3 yet he said he has received Many Calls from Panicky customers looking for the cause of some Quirky health Bruhn said his firm has removed for free foam insulation from attics and basements of two customers who agreed to pay for new How he he would not agree to remove foam injected into exterior if i had to take it out of two houses i would go he Ron president of acl insulating and said although his business has suffered As a result of the he int prepared to advocate the return of the insulation had already become the butt of bad publicity when the Federal Chip Grants became he Bruce Sampson of l s Home com also said the ban was a Wise Given the debate Over possible health Sampson said he thinks its enough for concerned homeowners to Seal off their Interior removing the foam altogether might be premature since there is evidence the formaldehyde May be absorbed into the studs of the Homes and remain a night insulation firms aggravated the hat Tutte of i main by installing it an interim report of the Federal health departments advisory commit tee on the insulation said formaldehyde gases could be Melemed if chemicals not mixed properly or were too advisory committee also said the foam should be installed at Between and degrees c to avoid Meterio the committee said the foam should Only have been installed in Hornet that had an inside vapor vet Many of the older Homes covered by the Chip Grants did not have such Vaseska mid some flyby night operations served Only to give the Refutable companies a bad one contract the association claimed to have done 11 jobs but never bought any foam Bruhn said the Federal Chip Grant program encouraged Over ambitious entrepreneurs to set up insulation in the Hopes of making Quick people came in from out of town and set up he they would milk the City and then who never used the foam in his own mid the big prob Lem with the insulation is that it has to mixed on the lob if the Guy on the truck Doest mix it you Are in he adding that there was virtually no control on the Way the insulation was made and the principle of foam insulation was probably a Good one at said Manitoba housing and renewal corporation spokesman Doug but the Federal governments Chip created a Stampede of companies in the hacking said the Manitoba Home insulation loan program at least required companies to comply with cer Tain standards and Post a Bond before their customers could claim the few of the companies that quickly set up operations in the Wake of Federal Grant and provincial loan programs were Able to train their and since it was never a glamorous there was a big turnover in hacking said Many companies improperly installed the foam insulation swedish filtering system May solve vapor problem up homeowners plagued with problems from urea formaldehyde foam insulation in their houses May soon have a solution in the form of air filters that absorb and decompose harmful says a National research Council publication released the swedish designed filters use a material marketed under the name of a porous aluminium oxide treated weather k i Coq Foch Oil Iii off Johnj Soli on precipitation m High l Low cold Fiona worm of font Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today and wind becoming southerly at 25 an hour this High today near Low tonight near High tomorrow near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba continuing warm with Cloudy periods mostly sunny and a Little cooler monday and tuesday with temperatures near the Normal of 23 and Northern Manitoba mainly sunny with temperatures near Normal readings of 18 and 7 monday and Northwestern Ontario continuing sunny and warm Cloudy periods and a Little cooler sunny tuesday with temperatures near Normal readings of 21 and Canada and the world National 20 10 22 12 3d i 21 10 29 13 27 11 29 16 14 25 n 10 Thunder 22 6 20 16 As u 24 10 19 n Intig National 24 19 22 17 new 29 21 23 14 21 15 27 20 is 10 is 8 32 20 is 33 9 25 28 is Tel 30 Bisot spots los Clear 33 Las 42 fair rain Cloudy 18 13 14 15 11 21 21 32 37 25 23 29 25 25 Winnipeg in last if Fml m record in 1966 006 in 1915 total for april 1 to Milli Normal deaths classified death 30 31 32 29 33 widow of Robert James of 270 Kenny widower of an Toinette of 1517 Bannatyne Arthur of widower of Evelyn of of 904 Manitoba Hus band of Stella widow of Peter of husband of Maggie Robert William of 5031 Roblin formerly of leaders woes insulator Bruce Sampson says in attics and in contrary to regulations of the Canadian general standards Many of the firms that incorrectly installed the foam have since Digap leaving homeowners with Little Chance for hacking foam ban was Wise some not reputable contractors Are now beginning to take of the current panic to Bill themselves As foam removal in one entrepreneur has told homeowners he has a special stucco that will suck out the bad Vapours if it is smeared Over the installation Northern Manitoba Community Lead ers presented provincial Cabinet Ben with a list of complaints yester Day ranging from inadequate services to demands for greater involvement in focal the list came out of resolutions approved by delegates to the 12th annual meeting of the Northern association of Community about 75 Senta Tives from communities attended the three Day event in Winnipeg which ended among the concerns presented to seven Cabinet ministers attending Ter Days session were the need to bring roads up to acceptable inadequate Hydro service in some unities and High recommendations included provid ing running water to every Home to improve cleanliness and health Stan providing each Community with proper waste disposal methods and improving transportation facilities such As the mid they appreciated the delegates concerns and would try to Deal with they blamed Otta was failure to sign a new Vinulal development agreement to re place the North lands which expired at the end of finance minister Brian Ransom said the province is already spending some of the million it had earmarked As its share of the proposed but Federal regional economic expansion minister Pierre de announced recently that Ottawa would give Only million for a oneyear Extension of the old North lands agree he mid the government had reduced its share of the funding be cause it had not been Given enough credit for its previous food clerks voting on two year pact about 50 unionized employees of the North of s3 Consumers Coop in flin flon will vote today on a proposed contract which could end a 10week the two year contract includes wage increases of about 44 per cent for male food clerks who now earn an they would receive an hour at the end of the which is retroactive to female clerks would get a 50per cent wage increase Over the two up from the current an hour to by the time the contract results of the vote Are to be released later in the with potassium permanganate that absorbs and Breaks Down formaldehyde Bob a research officer with the Council in said although filters May spare homeowners the expense of having the insulation removed from their More research is but the concept seems he an article published in swedish building research news said a filter uracil combination is effective in eliminating formaldehyde a spokesman for a Montreal firm that holds the Canadian Patent for said the firm is testing an air filter using Pura Fil to measure its effectiveness against he said a air filter unit available for measuring about 60 centimetres by 120 processes about 14 cubic metres of air a minute and can be rolled to different rooms on a 23kilogram bag of Pura Fil costs Bowen said renting a unit before making a Purchase would allow affected 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