Wood Fibre Insulation! | Guest House #9

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This insulation material is awesome! All natural, made from wood fibre, sustainable Hunton board. It's great to handle, it makes our guest house a bit more eco friendly, and with the right thickness the little house should have enough insulation to fight off the coldest weather too!
So if you're planning on building green and looking for some great passive thermal insulation, that' also has fire resistance, either for floors, roof, or an external wall, this is something you should check out. In the next video, you'll probably see some installation as well! :)
Check out my renovation-buddy Paul's channel: / paulwarreneaton
#woodfiber #insulation #ecofriendly

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16 окт 2024

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@lukeseguin-magee74 Год назад

Great videos by the way!

@TryingToBuildStuff Год назад

Thanks! 😊

@PaulWarrenEaton 2 года назад

Pelle!! Thanks so much for the shout out! Yes good to see the Australian living and renovating in Finland is influencing your Nordic insulation choices!!! 🤣 But yeah it’s good stuff. So much friendlier than ‘glass wool’ and ‘rock wool’. Both to touch and for the environment. And yes it really is made by melting glass or rock. If you have ever seen candy floss made.. they do the same thing with glass and rock wool. Get it really hot and then spin it into a fibre. Lots of digging into the ground to get the raw material and lots of power used to melt and spin it. Your floor is looking nice. I’ll get you into clay plaster next. Watch out!!! 👍

@TryingToBuildStuff 2 года назад

Haha, also making me buy a material made in the same country I live in! You know your stuff! Oh, interesting, haven't really thought about how it's made. I do like candy floss though, but just the sugary kind! Well, we'll see about the clay, maybe I can use it in the basement under the guest house 😅

@88maenu 2 года назад

Thanks for the video, do you have a link from this product in Australia? Thanks

@TryingToBuildStuff 2 года назад

Just asked @pwe (the other guy commenting on this video), since he's the one that got me hooked on this stuff and he's Australian. Apparently, there's a company making a similar product, here's the link: www.insulatenaturally.com.au/insulation-product/steico-flex036

@lukeseguin-magee74 Год назад

Did you use any sort of vapour barrier on the inside of the walls, floor or ceiling? Wind barrier on ceiling close to the roof? I’m going to insulate a similar guesthouse-in Sweden. Wood Fiber looks like a brilliant alternative!

@TryingToBuildStuff Год назад

Oh sorry, totally missed your question. Anyway: I used a regular wind barrier on the walls and the ceiling (easy way of creating an air gap for ventilation). It's an old house and I didn't want to use plastic. And since this material is natural, if it would get wet it will release the moisture and dry eventually :) I prefer it over the regular glass fibre insulation, and such a pleasure to work with. This house is in Norway btw, so I suspect the climate is similar ;)

@lukeseguin-magee74 Год назад

@@TryingToBuildStuff Thanks for the reply! I figured my 2 comments made the first one disappear into the rest of them. I think I’ll do the same with my ceiling and wall insulation! What do you think I’d need fof the floor? The hose is on pillars (50-90 cm above ground on a hill) with the floorboards exposed. Could I just put the insulation in the cavities and then cover it with asfaltbord or something like that? Wind barrier? Curious:)

@TryingToBuildStuff Год назад

@@lukeseguin-magee74 I have half the house on pillars (40-50cm above ground) and half on a concrete slab/cellar. I started by adding asfaltboard in the bottom to act as a moisture barrier, then 10+5cm of this wood fibre insulation and then just regular old chipboard on top as a subfloor :) From what I've read this insulation is so dense that mice and other rodent doesn't want to build nests in it, so I'm hoping that's true 😅

@lukeseguin-magee74 Год назад

@@TryingToBuildStuff awesome! Best help I’ve found so far:)

@TryingToBuildStuff Год назад

@@lukeseguin-magee74 Happy to be of service! :)