...Rockwool (formerly Roxul) mineral wool batts. R95 far exceeds the most rigorous Canadian building codes, and is a key component to us achieving an extremely ene...
...Rockwool rigid board under the main slab and on the exterior of the slab, and high-density Type III EPS foam under the footing as Rockwool has not been tested y...
...Rockwool panels meant we needed an additional solid exterior surface. Here we installed an exterior cement board , though that left the challenge of how to atta...
...rockwool, leaving them to sprout. After a week or so, the seeds can be transplanted into one of the Elegant Farm planters to grow. The Elegant Farm is extremely...
...Rockwool, contains no fire retardant chemicals such brome-based HBCD (Hexabromocyclododecane, spelling test to follow), a persistent bio-accumulative chemical f...
...Rockwool or Roxul insulation panels attached with strapping and screws (which is in the building science video above), and what we did to break the thermal brid...
...Rockwool mineral fiber insulation ( formerly known as Roxul) .
Note: Engineers at Rockwool could not confirm with us that their product had the compressive st...
...Rockwool or fiberglass) or as in this particular case, dense-packed cellulose .
Larsen Trusses for Passive House construction:
We recently visited John Hodg...
...Rockwool or spray foam insulation to name a few examples.
Some natural insulations are better suited to slip into the more ‘mainstream’ yet ‘green home leanin...
Polyisocyanurate (PIR), Extruded Polystyrene (XPS), Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) or Styrofoam?
When building or renovating a high-performance building envelope...
