http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/ 'build green' en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:08:13 +0000 http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/topic/cork-granules-as-loose-fill-insulation#post-24 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:43:13 +0000 KGraham 24@http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/ <p>What a great website! I really hope someone here can help me. I'm working on a 100% green retrofit of a very old house in the northeast united states, where winters are -0. It's a wood frame construction, intact plaster/lath walls on the interior, and _absolutely nothing_ in the cavities. I'm dissatisfied with all available commercial insulation options, and would like to use granulated cork, as a kind of 'pour-in' application. However, cork's made no inroads in the american market (except as composite flooring), so no one anywhere has been able to provide me with information. I have no idea what size granule should be used in such an application (on the larger side seems intuitively logical); whether it can be straight ground up cork or if it has to be the 'expanded' type; and perhaps most importantly, whether it has to be treated for flammability - I've actually put this question to several people, and they disagree vehemently, one of them insisting that untreated cork granules are fire safe as insulation, the other insisting that it's a fire hazard! (It doesn't help that one of the very scant results of a Google search for this kind of use of cork is a link to a description of a ship that caught fire - the source being the cork insulation in the walls!) Is there anyone out there who can provide me with accurate answers to these important questions? </p> http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/topic/comment-on-insulation-series-on-main-site#post-20 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:15:55 +0000 tom.woolley 20@http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/ <p>Why not use hemp and lime. Ideal for new build , timber frame and for renovation and conversions.<br /> See Bevan and Woolley - Hemp and Lime Construction BRE Press<br /> <a href="http://www.hemplime.org.uk/PDF/EP85%20Hemp%20lime%20flyer%201.pdf" rel="nofollow">www.hemplime.org.uk/PDF/EP85%20Hemp%20lime%20flyer%201.pdf</a> </p> http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/topic/comment-on-insulation-series-on-main-site#post-12 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:16:55 +0000 admin 12@http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/ <p>Don't be shy, what do you think?</p> <p>Put us straight, make corrections or just have your say about all matters insulation related.</p> <p><strong>Reply below...</strong> </p>