Blog
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Building a Climate Resilient, High Performance Home
The climate crisis is changing how many architects design and build homes. Extreme weather impacts everything from a home’s location to building material selection. One architect at the forefront of...
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Tax Credits for Insulation
[Please note! We here at Havelock Wool are wool experts, not tax experts! If you have any questions on this tax credit please do your own research and/or consult with...
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Caution: Foam is Not an Air Seal
If you are using spray foam as an air seal for your home, you will have problems down the road. Spray foam should never be confused with a durable air...
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DIY Van Window Covers
The importance of using high-quality window covers in a van conversion cannot be understated. Their use is four-fold: temperature regulation, sound dampening, privacy, and theft deterrence. TEMPERATUR...
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Why Do We Build Houses?
It is hot, getting hotter, in the summer, cold and incredibly snowy at times in winter and torrential rain seems to feature in the news cycle now more than ever....
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R-Value, U-Value and a Common Insulation Myth
In the insulation world, we all get caught up on R-Value, despite its shortcomings (of which we’ve written before ). Another thermal performance measure worth attention is U-Value, a close...
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A Tale of Two Climates
Yestermorrow implements Havelock Wool in Vermont and Utah Editor’s Note… The Yestermorrow Design Build School is one the coolest places to learn how to build healthy, high-performance structures. We r...
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What’s New at Havelock Wool
We’ve been hard at work making additions to our product line that address the needs of the trade, which we loosely define as architects, builders, and commercial installers. Though we...
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Who Can Install My Havelock Wool?
We get this question a lot. The immediate answer is “You can!” We’ve gone to great lengths to make our insulation DIY friendly, especially our blown-in product. We’ve got a...
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Real People, Real Wool, Real Walls
Our friend Jon insulates his workspace in the mountains of western North Carolina Havelock Wool Blown-In Insulation in Action Jon, what’s the background on this project? We live in the...
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Blown-in Insulation and Batt Insulation. What’s the difference? Updated June 2023
When we started Havelock Wool we were adamant about offering the two main types of insulation, batts and blown-in (loose fill). There are advantages to each and we wanted to...
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Common Applications for Havelock Wool
You asked, we listened. Here are detailed architectural drawings for some common applications for Havelock Wool insulation in your home. To produce these drawings, we worked closely with our good...
