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When it comes to home insulation, conventional wisdom has long emphasized the importance of insulating walls and floors. However, the roof often garners less attention, leaving homeowners wondering if ...

Earth, the plants, and their matted roots provide some insulation on a sod roof. It’s probably a good idea to supplement it with some other type of insulation and/or reflective material, because when ...

A question appeared recently in your column about insulating an early 1900’s house from the inside. Your answer concerned the use of foam insulation and the application of rigid foam board to the ...

Usually you do not want fungi in the walls of your home. But Ecovative is building a home in which having fungi in the walls is the entire point. The “Mushroom Tiny House” will use mycelium (the mass ...

It’s easy to insulate your walls with fiberglass insulation (at least when they’re open!), but the job still requires attention to detail to get the maximum benefit. Every gap and compressed batt ...

Say you were the third generation of a farming family in the southwest of Scotland, and you intended to build a new farmhouse that made a statement about resource consumption. Building an ...

When we inspect houses, we frequently make recommendations for more insulation in the attic, but one challenging place to properly insulate on old houses is the eaves. The edges of attics, referred to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

It has been a mantra of TreeHugger that where possible, it is better to build foam free. Plastic foams are sometimes made with blowing agents that have serious global warming potential; they are made ...