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<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:25:32 -0400, Clarke Olsen <colsen@fairpoint.net> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex">Perhaps a new insulation (insamalgum?) could be made, incorporating the wool from meat animals, plant fiber, rock wool...<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or perhaps a new insulation strategy that incorporates different types of insulation materials into a hybrid envelope cross section (for which Clark's label would work equally well) ?</div><div><br></div><div>If you take a look at the thermal imaging snapshots for the double-stud wall with Vacuum Insulated Panels (VIP) at the core of the wall between the loadbearing and curtain stud walls, you will see no (zero, none, zip, nada) thermal bridging. </div><div><br></div><div>
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</div><div><br></div><div>or if the tinyurl doesn't work for some reason </div><div><br></div><div>https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pws.gov.nt.ca%2Fpdf%2FPMC%2FNRC%2520Integration%2520of%2520VIP%2520in%2520Canadian%2520Buildings%2520-%2520Mike%2520Swinton_crtd.pdf&ei=GzskVN_UE8SOyAS40oCYCA&usg=AFQjCNF16_gWXU5FkGRph-haMt9B13Aq1g&bvm=bv.76247554,d.aWw</div><div><br></div><div>(the link takes you to a PDF download)</div><div><br></div><div>Me ? Rather than spending the BigBux on VIPs, I would tend to simply increase the spacing between the inner and outer stud walls or between the two chords of parallel chord roof trusses and use inexpensive Roxul throughout. But I never build in the City where increasing wall thickness would mean a loss in interior floor space so my druthers are irrelevant to this discussion.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom . . . T60BOM<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br>A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot C A<br>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")</div></div></body></html>