Podcast Archives - Fibres

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 floor all the way up to the eaves level and then carries on and meets […]

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 only leaks out when someone is blowing air into a building or pushing air out […]

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 insulation.  Cavity wall insulation’s a topic that I get asked an awful lot about and […]

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 construction that are taking place, that really have the power to revolutionise how we build […]

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 101 which really goes into detail about wood fibre, the way it’s manufactured and all […]

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 areas of questions.  We’ve had quite a few enquiries about roof insulation this week.  We have a […]