House, built in 1968. Attic insulation, maybe six-eight inches of blown wool/fiberglass = not much.<BR><BR>Option 1: Company man came out, quoted $500 to blow an extra eight inches of fiberglass on ...

Rainier-based Oregon Shepherd is selling blown-in natural wool insulation to the green building industry. Entrepreneurs Margaret Magruder and Joel Pynch spent nearly a decade researching alternative ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

A Southland-based wool insulation business is seeing a push towards its product due to rising awareness of its sustainability value. BJ Carter Building owner James Carter had been insulating homes for ...

Nova Scotia has thousands of superfluous kilograms of wool, so researchers at Dalhousie University decided to stuff it in walls to see if it would work as home insulation. It turns out it can do the ...

Most of us only deal with home insulation a few times in a lifetime, so many of the materials used to insulate buildings are little known to the average person. Affordably priced and familiar to most ...

The insulation boards are fixed to the masonry with screw-in anchors instead of adhesive mortar. This is followed by the application of the armadura base, a specially developed base coat that is ...