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The Benefits of Wool Sound Absorption Panels: A Sustainable Solution for Acoustic Comfort
In our increasingly noisy world, sound management has become all the talk in the design of homes, offices, and public spaces. A healthy, innovative and…
Sustainability: A View Steeped in Experience and Common Sense
Simply sustainable is the PC version of our view on sustainability. What we really want to say is we are no bullshit sustainability. A review…
Customers are Loving our new PRO batts.
We have always had a simple concept: take the most dynamic fiber on the planet and make it available for those who want to use it…
Double Stud Wall vs. Continuous Exterior Insulation
A common attribute among high-performance homes is a well-insulated wall. The code minimums for R-Value will depend on where you live but regardless of climate…
Too Much Insulation?
As we’ve written about before, there are major issues with only using R-Value to assess insulation and your overall thermal envelope. In this post, we’ll…
Rockwool has broken the law in the first major settled case of greenwashing in the construction industry
Local media in Copenhagen reports Rockwool has broken the law and settled the case. The article goes on to mention other possible police reports in…
When Building Your Way is the Right Way
Stefan Milkowski and his family care deeply about building structures that are functional, durable, and beautiful. So when the time came to design and build…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Real People, Real Wool, Real Walls
Our friend Jon insulates his workspace in the mountains of western North Carolina Jon, what’s the background on this project? We live in the mountains…
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…
Wool Innovation with Sonoma Wool Company
We’re not the only company that loves wool and understands its advantages over synthetic, man-made products. Amy Chesnut and her team at Sonoma Wool Company…
How do I insulate my crawl space?
This question has always been a tough one and coincidentally it has been a hot topic lately. We’ve received multiple calls in the last few…
Moderate Energy Retrofits
As a building material company, we attend some pretty cool industry conferences. These are typically in-depth events designed for trade professionals like architects, builders, and…
Sustainable Building Science in Action
If sustainable building science is your guide, how would you build? One clear example is the Vali Homes Mews project in Phoenix Arizona. A Bit…
Vapor Barriers and Moisture Management in Vans
After insulating over 30,000 vans for the past 9 years and partnering with over 300 professional van upfitters, we’ve learned a thing or two about…
Meet Brett from Chewy Design Co – A Havelock Wool Partner
Ever wonder who the professional van upfitters are that use Havelock Wool? We’ve met a lot of them over the years and everyone has a…
DIY Acoustic Panels for Walls
Havelock Wool absorbs sound incredibly well. This performance characteristic is often overlooked as insulation’s main job is to insulate. However, insulation can also help create…
Discovering Mold in Your Walls – Part 1
“You better come over here…. we have a problem in the closet” And with that simple statement from my wife our odyssey into mold removal…
This Is Not Cheap Insulation
Havelock Wool insulation is not cheap. We would certainly argue it is full value and inexpensive when you account for everything it does (and does…
Saving Money with the Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law last month in Washington is a huge step forward in combating climate change and addressing our country’s…
Mold Free Living – Another Havelock Story
Huge thanks to Rachel for sharing her Havelock story with us. Hi Rachel, Please tell us a bit about your home project. How did you…
The Havelock Wool Insulation Calculator
How much insulation do I actually need? This is a common question we get from homeowners who are at the beginning of their DIY insulation…
Insulation Lowers Your Cooling Costs Too
Insulation is often overlooked in the summer when it is arguably just as valuable as in the winter. The figures are climate zone dependent but…
Natural fibers outperform as insulators: it’s science not conjecture. And it is on the mind of 9th graders.
We quote the abstract from Nikita’s report, which is below, to remove any ambiguity as to why a 9th grader might be interested in the…
Is there a best practice for insulation installation?
There is one in California where the state has instituted QII (Quality Insulation Installation), a procedure that ensures insulation and air sealing have been properly…
Meet Salt Vans – A Havelock Wool Partner
A great aspect of van life is meeting the people that make up this vibrant community. At Havelock Wool, we are fortunate to do it…
Building Science meets Time-Honored Building Technique
Timber Arched is definitely one of our more inspiring building partners. We were lucky enough to collaborate with them on a recent project and learn…
If it’s not wool, why do other companies call their products wool?
Insulation industry participants use “wool” in their product names. Why? Maybe it’s because wool conjures up feelings of warmth and protection from the elements? Maybe…
Havelock on the Build Show Build
We had a ton of fun traveling to Missouri to help Jake Bruton of Aarow Building and architect Steve Baczek with their Swofford Project –…
A Cool Passive House Project with Havelock Wool
In so many ways, this project represents the holy grail of the healthy building movement… a homeowner’s desire to build better, an architectural firm willing…
DIY Insulation Installation is Coming to Homes. Why?
Friends in the space notwithstanding, there is not a lot of positive commentary to shed on the insulation installer industry at large. We’ll use a…
Builders are Beginning to Change the Game Too
We got this in an email from a home builder just last week… “We do a lot of work in-house but have always sub’d out…
An Architect’s Perspective on Havelock Wool
Ever wonder how professional architects approach the design and build of their own homes? And how they choose materials? We had the great fortune of…
Insulation to Save the World
Have you heard about the movement in the UK called Insulate Britain? It was started just this fall by climate activists demanding that the UK…
Havelock 2020 Vision
We celebrated 6 years in October and just closed our best year ever – by a wide margin. At 6 we are more than halfway…
Construction Emissions Must be Addressed
We understand that more efficient structures can lead to reduced energy consumption. However, we also increasingly understand there is much more to the equation than…
What are others saying about Havelock Wool?
We are happy to share testimonials and quite proud of the feedback we are able to earn from our products. Wool and its high-integrity characteristics…
The Insulation Decision
Kristof Irwin of Positive Energy recently hosted our friend Lucas Johnson of 475 Building Supply on his podcast for a fascinating discussion around sustainable building….