Question: In a conversation with a builder last week, I was asked how I plan to provide a foundation that meets the minimum requirements for insulation. My initial response was “Why?”, since we’ve ...

Collect all insulation in a contractor-grade bag, seal it, and properly dispose of it according to your local trash ...

Q. Hello, Tim. I was doing research about house foundations and came across interlocking foam forms that stack on top of one another. They assemble much like children’s plastic blocks. Does a concrete ...

Rigid expanded polystyrene insulation for foundations and other below-grade concrete applications protects buildings from water infiltration and insects and offers energy savings by eliminating air ...

Insulate concrete, foundation walls and slab with Insulfoam Below-Grade Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Insulation. Below-grade EPS is engineered to prevent total structure heat loss while providing ...

Composite Panel Solutions' (CPS, Eagle River, WI, US) ground-breaking composite foundation wall system, trademarked EPITOME, for residential houses was first written about in this magazine in July ...

When I finished the basement of my last home in Cincinnati, I simply did what I just described, but there was no foam glued to my poured concrete foundation. I used regular fiberglass batts in the ...

This article was published 17/09/2022 (255 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Question: We live in a 110-year-old home in the Wolseley area of Winnipeg. There is a stone ...

Despite being ubiquitous in countries around the world, particularly in Europe and South America, concrete homes are still fairly rare in the United States when compared to the hegemony of wood.