Wood is a fantastic natural material that has extremely useful properties when made into insulation, properties that are rarely, if ever, matched by synthetic insulations. It is a carbon negative material (locks up carbon) rather than emitting carbon during manufacture…
What is internal insulation? Internal insulation is essentially insulation which is applied to the inner face of external walls in a building. It’s usually bonded or screwed to the walls and usually extends from the very bottom of the ground…
What is air tightness? Air tightness essentially is a measure of how much air leaks out from the interior of a building when there is a pressure difference between the interior and the exterior. Now, that doesn’t mean that air…
Hello, and welcome to this week’s ‘Back to Earth’ podcast with me, Chris Brookman. This the show for architects, builders and surveyors all about the use of sustainable building materials. In this episode specifically we’re going to be answering questions all about cavity wall…
So, in this episode I’m going to take a bit of a departure from the usual line that I go down in looking at the different issues, and actually look to the future. There’s so many exciting new developments in…
In this episode specifically, I am going to be talking about the various different manufacturers of wood fibre insulation, the differences in their products and the similarities in their products and also all the things that you need to consider…
As an independent company, we at Back to Earth have all of the materials on the open market to choose from when selecting the best materials to supply to our customers. We’ve chosen wood fibre insulation because of it’s amazing…
Hello, and welcome to this week’s ‘Back to Earth’ podcast with me, Chris Brookman. This week I’m going to cover a presentation that I did to the Green Register and the ASBP in Bristol, which is basically a wood fibre…
Hello and welcome to this week’s ‘Back to Earth’ podcast, with me, Chris Brookman. This is a show for building professionals and self-builders, all about the use of sustainable building materials. This week we have three or maybe four main…
Designed for architects, builders and self-builders, the courses cover different scenarios and explain how to specify, source and use wood fibre effectively.