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Insulation and soundproofing

Is Spray Foam a Good Choice? Lessons from the UK's Spray Foam Insulation Crisis

Spray foam insulation has gained popularity in North America as a go-to solution for improving energy efficiency in homes. However, as homeowners in the UK are now discovering, this seemingly convenient and cost-effective insulation method can come with significant downsides. The problems being experienced in the UK wi...

Insulation and soundproofing

Spray Foam Insulation: The Hidden Environmental Costs of Difficult Removal

...tiny, especially in Canada with Bill C-59, The Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2023 (Bill C-59), which took effect on June 20, 2024 and that targets greenwashing in advertising. While the material can provide significant energy savings, the long-term challenges associated with its removal, the difficulty of...

Insulation and soundproofing

Is spray foam insulation a good choice for your home? Or a toxic recipe for disaster?

...tiny homes, shipping container homes, and basements. Tiny house builders often don’t include ventilation systems, leaving you penned in with your newly sprayed chemicals, and certainly no off-gassing will occur to the outside with metal boxes and concrete basements. Virtually no air will leak through spray foam after i...

Off-grid and Net-Zero Housing

Le Refuge - An Architect-Designed modern Green prefab 2 bed kit home

...tiny houses is not actually a foundation at all, it’s a set of wheels. Even the greenest home you can build stops being eco-friendly if it’s rolling down the highway or idling in bumper to bumper traffic learn more here - ‘are tiny houses good for the environment?’. With Le Refuge S750, it's compact but not really tin...

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Le Refuge - An Architect-Designed modern Green prefab tiny house kit home

...tiny houses is not actually a foundation at all, it’s a set of wheels. Even the greenest home you can build stops being eco-friendly if it’s rolling down the highway or idling in bumper to bumper traffic. Learn more here - ‘are tiny houses good for the environment?’. Le Refuge - a tiny house prefab kit home Along with...

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Wikkelhouse: A tiny house made of cardboard

...tiny houses is that you need to be clever with space use, which leads to things like sliding walls and secret compartments, making them even more appealing. Not all the tiny houses we post here would work in this climate but they do bring the tiny house movement front and centre and highlight the fact that smaller hous...

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ARE TINY HOUSES FOR SALE LOCALLY A GOOD CHOICE FOR A FIRST HOME?

...Tiny living! Now you know more about buying a Tiny Home on wheels and why I decided not to live in a Tiny House Find more pages about Tiny Houses and resilient green building techniques here : See more photos of Tiny Houses & Laneway Homes See Architect designed prefab Tiny Houses for sale How to sta...