Spray Foam- Page 6 of 9
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Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Air-Sealing Buck
If you don’t have time to seal every last crack, which cracks should you seal first?
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How to Insulate a Flat Roof
An architect looks for the best way to insulate a flat roof on a contemporary house — at a price his clients can accept
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Spray Foam Insulation Is Not a Magic Bullet
It’s time for me to bad-mouth something besides batt insulation
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Is R-Value Dead as a Dodo?
The R-value of your insulation is just one number — and it’s not enough to tell you everything you need to know about your wall’s thermal performance
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Spraying Polyurethane Foam Over an Existing Roof
Spray foam isn’t just used for insulation — it can also be used for roofing
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The Flash-and-Batt Method
This oddly illicit-sounding insulation system is becoming more common
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Making Healthier, Greener Foam Insulation
A proposed change to the International Residential Code would eliminate the need for halogenated flame retardants in many applications
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Joe Lstiburek on Spray Foam
At the Building Science Experts’ Session, Dr. Joe explained the latest thinking on this increasingly controversial topic
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Live Webcast of a Building Science Seminar
GBA Pro members can watch two days of instruction from Joseph Lstiburek and John Straube
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Air Leakage Degrades the Thermal Performance of Walls
No surprises here — but testing by the Building Science Corporation begins to quantify the problem