Homes and buildings need insulation to control inside temperatures. Are you getting the best value for your project? Here's a look at how R-Value affects what you pick. R-Value, also known as "thermal ...

Insulating exterior walls with new insulation in a hidden wall cavity during an upgrade is challenging. Insulating outside walls cavities with injection foam shows promise as one solution. It’s not ...

In recent years, requiring building envelopes for greater insulation layers have become a trend for new construction. Despite this trend, it has been shown that dynamic insulation systems, which offer ...

According to the Insulation Institute, fully 90 percent of today’s American homes are underinsulated. That’s really too bad, because insulating your house is one of the greenest moves you can make.

The kind of insulation used in the construction business – that pink fiberglass stuff that normally is used in attics and walls- is well known. These insulations, mostly fiberglass, are provided with ...

Contractors and builders who use IVDN Insultex House Wrap ® have the ability to not only add a water vapor, air and wind barrier, but add an additional R-6 insulation to a structure. Builders who have ...

Internal wall insulation isn't for every home. While it's easy to assume insulating every surface in your home will lead to greater energy efficiency, it isn't the case with internal wall insulation.

What makes your average builder recoil from a word like “innovation” can make that same builder do backflips when he or she strikes upon a solution. It might easily be that that builder is looking at ...

Some people know more about their neighbors than they would like to. Whether the other tenants are listening to music, watching television, having visitors, vacuum cleaning or washing clothes - its ...

Standard wall framing for ages has been a box enclosing vertical 2-by-4 studs. Until to the 1950s, they measured up to their name. Since then, studs have gradually been whittled down and now are a ...

In recent years, requiring building envelopes for greater insulation layers have become a trend for new construction. Despite this trend, it has been shown that dynamic insulation systems, which offer ...