XPS / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...XPS) Extruded Polystyrene (XPS) rigid foam, often recognizable by its distinctive pink, blue, or green color, is typically considered to be R-5.0 per inch (RSI~0.88 per 25~mm), but is that accurate?  The mechanism of drift Like Polyiso, XPS relies on a captive blowing agent (Historically HCFCs, now often HFCs) to achi...

...XPS insulation, it is not EPS insulation, and environmentally speaking they're very different - read more here. A good part of the reason why EPS foam insulation gets such a bad rap is because it is so often confused with the more harmful foam products on the market, when in reality it isn’t actually as bad as people t...