Hey everyone! I'm Belinda Carr, from Dubai, UAE but I now live in Dallas, Texas. I make videos on Construction Products & Technology. I try to learn something new every day and convey it in an unbiased manner. Subscribe to my channel to discover more about construction with me!
Should use the agriculture waste to crash to the powder and stick to the LEGO bricks, more environmentally, not plastic, plastic will poison our bodies and circumstances
asbestos was also marketed as a great product until it was not because it was a health hazard fiberglass is a health hazard that will be stopped once another product is safer is found. . . . . . .. . . . . . rockwall is better than fiberglass but double the price. . . rich people only . . .
Cold bridge galore, PVC inserts are toxic fire hazard and acoustically those panels will transfer all the noise trough even if properly insulated. Water damage and now you have rust issues in your home. Reusable? So is lumber, but why would you, since it out to be fine when house lasts 100 years.. ou right US rips house down almost before paint has dried. I agree build smarter.. ie make BETTER house, not this new age bullcrap. I havent seen one building made from these "industry changing" products that would last couple decades and even if those lasted, those are inferior to traditional log construction, witch can be infinitely repaired, works as its own insulation well as a frame and automatically adjusts air moisture content and clean the room air just by existing. Hell you can take the log frame into peaces and transport it to new location rather easily if need be, just need the new foundations and roof. Hell you can even reuse logs to repair or build new house. If labor is the issue, how about starting to demand higher quality from the houses, not the exterior look, but the construction it self so how long it last. More people learn the hands skills to build cheaper it comes. Construction is only expensive cause taxation, builders quality standards being equal to their wage and bosses not keeping the standards where those should be, well as cheap shit now mentality of the customers. Its ok for the paint brush, but when you are talking about the installing the wall and fitting the lumber, hell the foundations make or brake the house. If those are build piss poorly, rest of the house will suffer from that.
Already mentioned yellowing, breaking down due UV, there is issue of some polycarbonates cracking when in contact with alcohol, it can crack and its plastic, so how about no? There is still hundreds of years old glass windows, while i dont see polycarbonate lasting that long even in ideal conditions.
So funny, i cant get a plastic bag to carry the plastic bottles and containers i buy from the grocery store but i can build with them no problem. I'm sure the'll be a some kind of sin tax if it gets popular.
The XPS sample shown at 4:26 is certainly not Styrofoam; based on the colour, it is likely Foamular. Dupont's Styrofoam brand of XPS is generally dyed blue or grey for marketing, while Owens Corning's Foamular is dyed pink (as a tie to their pink-coloured glass fibre insulation). The sample is "actually XPS"; it is not "actually Styrofoam". Dow and DuPont merged in 2017; despite the caption at 4:28 and illustration at 5:27, the Styrofoam brand is now under the DuPont brand.
This sounds almost exactly like the situation I have with the house I bought last year. Great video and alternative to traditional cement board. Thank you! Look forward to watching your other videos.
A modern home with gas appliances should not be reliant on make-up air from the attic, as stated at 7:41. Even a quarter century ago when I had our gas furnace replaced with a now-obsolete mid-efficiency (induced draft but non-condensing) unit building codes here (Alberta Canada) required the addition of a fresh air intake to the vicinity of the furnace (in the basement), and modern furnaces have dedicated intakes leading to outside.
Great review. I tried a kit from home depot aong time ago and it scratched. I was so upset I just used tremclad. It worked and was good for a few years and was considering it again. But looked at the rustoleum. Tremclad yellows over time and maybe it's just the nature of the type of paint.
As a builder in Australia, your comments and deductions are sound. It is cheaper to build from scratch, a small home to suit your needs rather than to convert a container and make compromises due to the restraints of the container. Well done ❤
Hi Belinda. Thanks for the well explained videos. I live in Canada. Our attic was spray foamed with 6 inches of closed cell foam directly on the upper interior roof structure. The 6 inches filled the cavity between the rafters but not the rafters themselves. 14 years later rot is in many places along the ridge board and top of the rafters. Ant are nesting in many spots. According to the numbers you mention for water vapour transfer, it sounds like my 6 inches of spray foam should not be allowing water vapour to seep through to the cold roof boards above. Could water vapour be getting absorbed through the non insulated rafters then in turn condensing against the exterior thereby rotting the surrounding wood structure ? Thanks.
Yes thank about hemp in paper alone it takes years for Trees to grow to cut then it take half million dollar skitters and cutters to cut trees down 15-20years of growth. Hemp plants are grown in 75-90days tops soooomuch better
