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 ...

When it comes to clothing, wool is often praised as the ultimate natural insulator. Wool sweaters are cozy, fast-drying and made from a renewable resource. What if you could wrap your house in a warm ...

Today’s homeowners are demanding superior, environmentally friendly products that translate into energy savings for their new or existing homes. When it comes to an environmentally responsible, green ...

Due to modern advances in technology, the products used in the building material supply are evolving to provide more than ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Johns Manville (JM), a leading global manufacturer of energy-efficient building products and engineered specialty materials and a Berkshire Hathaway company, announced today ...

The worker, a man in his 30s, was working a job for an insulation company when he got stuck in a machine used to blow insulation wool, an Urgences-Santé spokesperson said. (Mathieu Wagner/Radio-Canada ...

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 ...

One of the toughest decisions in green building is the choice of insulation. Each type has its own set of virtues and problems. Last summer I wrote an article to try and address this confusion. I didn ...

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 ...