My Dream Shop Ep-38: From Molten Lava to the Best Insulation, How Rockwool is Made
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode of building my dream shop, we start installing our Rockwool Comforbatt and realize we would love to know how it is made...so our buddy Chris Jessen takes us to the Rockwool plant for a full tour! Pretty Darn Cool. No you know how they take rocks and turn them into the best insulation!
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Thanks to @ROCKWOOLNorthAmerica for the plant tour!
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That was a straight-up old school "This Old House" episode, complete with the factory visit in the middle. 😊
The next Tom Silva.
Better than what that show is now. It’s just a huge product placement show without showing anything useful anymore.
I thought the same!
Kyle is the closest modern day itteration of Norm Abram we have for sure, he would kill it on that show
Hey, I’m Bob Villa, today we’re going to tackle some insulation on a pole barn
The Rockwool tour was really interesting, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
@@RRBuildingsI’ve been able to see the Owen cornings thermafiber plant. It’s the same process, very cool!
Kyle, you have a 2nd calling as the new host for "how it's made" series on home building products!
Love love that show.
I built a 135' x 80' x 16' eve shop a couple of years ago. One thing I did that I don't regret is after the insulation, I sheeted the whole inside from floor to ceiling with 3/4" osb. Then put metal over it. It's crazy solid and when I ran airlines and electric I wasn't dictated by where my studs/purlins were. And now if I mount something on the wall I do it where it's most convenient for me.
Sheets of 3/4 OSB used depending on doors and windows is around 1450 pieces?
@@staudtj1 Pretty sure it's only 215 sheets of 4'x8'x3/4" OSB
135+135+80+80 linear feet x16' for surface area divide by (4*8) you get 215
@@c.a.martin3029 I screwed up, you are correct
Thanks for taking us along for the rock wool factory tour. HQ 2.0 is really coming along nicely
Been following for nearly 5 years Kyle. You've always done a great job of taking the time to explain things and you are fantastic at making your videos "flow" so to speak. Wonderful to see how far the channel has come in that time. Keep up the good work!
That is a really nice wall system, plenty of insulation and no thermal bridging. Well done!
There is bridging on the columns where the girts are. Exterior insulation is the only way to eliminate that
Why did you remove those bolts from the beam?
@@jwristen24 True, there is 'some' bridging in every wall assembly...no such thing as zero bridging, but it is minimal in this wall. Exterior insulation adds a lot of cost for modest benefit, not to mention that few contractors in 'middle America' know how to install it properly. Doing a double stud wall with a fully bridged insulated gap might provide better results and cost less than exterior insulation, depending on where you are.
@dlg5485 agreed but for my money there's no better assembly than 2 inches wall and 4 inches roof exterior insulation. It's costly albeit but can't beat the comfort
@@JacobLongActingJourney was wondering that too.
Besides helping you, the rep got a chance to see how the product gets installed in a very good way. On-the-job experience, can't beat it.
That building is going to have incredible sound and thermal insulation.
That was neat to see the inside of the plant. I live about 3 miles from the West Virginia plant. they offer community visits to tour the plant. I need to sign up for the next one!! Nice stuff!!
Oh wow! I’d do it if I was you
That stuff produces so much toxic dust, I wouldn't go anywhere near that place
Before I retired, I had done electrical work in a fiberglass insulation plant. And yes that plant had so much dust/particles floating in the air, it was like a haze. The company changed hands, it was cleaned up! I want to see just how there process is. I’ve worked in stone quarries, vinyl siding plants, cement plants. The dust that rockwool makes can’t be as much as what places I’ve worked in. I’ll post another update once I go next month. Thanks for your concern.
The effective r value of the wall must be phenomenal!
Rockwool is awesome! I’ve tried the other brand of mineral wool also but the Rockwool batts are just the right combination of stiff enough but flexible enough to get a perfect fit to completely fill the cavity and allow easy custom cut and fit. I like its fire resistance and especially its ability to deny any rodent a place to live in your walls. I’ve used it several times now and I will NEVER buy another piece of fiberglass for the rest of my life.
I used rockwool on my bedroom remodel. It was a total pleasure to work with. Sound absorption is great it's worth the extra cost if you can afford it
The sound quality now, when you were up near the completed wall, compared to when the shop was bare, was crazy.
When the interior finishes go on it will be reflect sound again. Musicians build sound attenuation panels with this and cover it with acoustic open fabric. Until they find out it irritates the eyes, sinuses, throat and lungs. I’m glad he’s putting the air barrier over it to seal it in.
I just used this on my garage. Easy to work with and high performance. A bit more pricy versus fiberglass insulation but it performs better versus sound so it was worth it.
People can say what they want but I love that insulation clotting table.
I come from the manufacturing world, that plant has a great housekeeping program. Very clean considering the product.
Magic of video: same day plant visit, said with a grin lol. Great video
Your shop is going to be toasty warm in the winter.....and cool & crisp with AC in the summer.
Placed RW in the exterior walls, attic and around the bedrooms; love the stuff!
Through the magic of Television™! Great work, I appreciate the showmanship. The shop is looking good too, that place is going to be well insulated but with the rockwool it's going to be a lot more fire-resistant than a standard wood frame structure.
Very cool, that is a great product.
You are going to be nice and warm in your workshop, it’s gonna be worth all the hard work and investment.
Cheers from Tokyo!
Such a cool tour intro/outro! Please do more of those in the future!
Very nice guys, it's always nice to have the product expert right there for any questions!! The tour was really neat!!
I love Rockwool. I've been using it since 2014. Best insulation on the market.
Really liked the factory tour. Thanks. The cutting jig is pretty clever.
Remondeld a house and used both the sound dealing and the insulation from Rockwool and can’t say how easy and how much I love this stuff. We just moved to Oklahoma and I’m trying to decide on how I want to insulate a 30 x 50 shop.
Up here in Rockford ...My brother and 1st cousin are architects they turned me on to you love your vids... Can't wait to hear of your collaboration with Texas based builder with mass timber ..Again great work on this shop...
Who did I collab with in Texas?
@@RRBuildings I asked my cousin says she heard of you and Matt
Risinger and some builder in Texas are talking of doing a state of the art mass timber collaboration I guess could be hearsay I truly apologize if not the case
That product tour was amazing.
I haven't used it but I've been learning about it and looking for an opportunity to do so.
Thanks we enjoyed seeing it all
That Rockwool is brilliant, it stacks real well and holds its self to the wall, And looks good too.
Definitely want to watch the rockwool pros and cons video!
I live in a double wide trailer due to a lifetime of less than great choices. I own it. I will never live in a well-built home this side of a miracle. That said, between the Build Show and RR Builders, I so love when you guys use Rockwool. I love it when you use passive house construction! It gives me the fizz!❤ If by some miricale my life changes, my dream is to live in a modest but well built home 🏡. YOUR VIDEOS GIVE ME HOPE AND INSPIRATION
Kyle, I've always found some HVAC duct support webbing is an easy way to hold in insulation. Easy and quick to roll it out and staple to each post.
Wonderful tutorial! Loved the tour, too. Very informative. We look forward to seeing your video comparing the rockwool and spray insulation, et al.
Thanks for taking us to see the production of the product Rock Wool.
With that amount of insulation - and the attention to detail of the installation - you could probably heat that place with a hairdryer. Great work.
I love your videos! What I love more is having greg mic'ed up more for the trash talk that happens!! You are very informative and helped me learn a lot. I have plans to build my dream home in a few years and am going to use what I have learned from you to do it. Thank you so much fir everything. If I was in your area I would have you build it for me
Have specified this stuff for custom gensets for mining here in Western Australia. Insulates very well, drops the decibel rating along with perforated sheet and baffles, and especially good around hot areas like exhaust penetrations. Bloody good stuff.
Fab video, I had no idea that Rockwool was actual made from rocks. I always find it fascinating how not only a product like this is invented but also the machines to make it.
Amazing job I love that rockwool Greg is a very smart young man you two guys take pride in your work most carpenters don’t care get the money and run I love all your details you do also❤
Awesome episode!!! Really appreciate the factory tour! Very informative!!! Thank you Kyle and Greg! You guys rock!!
I like the factory tours.
I was so glad to see another video available. Looking good gentlemen!
as an ex-insulator, we used plastic strapping and a stapler...its quick, easy and does the job. Doesn't need to be heavily applied, just enough to keep the insulation from falling/slipping out
Rockwool factory tour was so cool. I can tell its a new experience for you Kyle to present from a factory but practice makes perfect and getting inside those places are really cool
80° warmer down the road at the factory
I liked the product tour. Would love to see more of those.
Noted!
Little tight Greg, little loose Greg. Imagine living with this guy 24/7.
Rockwool is AWESOME!!!! Thanks for the video Kyle! 😁👍🏼😁👍🏼
Love how the audio changes as you progressed, from slightly echo'y to slightly flat sound, wish i had it in my house.
Wow !! That was a very cool learning experience!!
I'll be using Rockwool on my post frame as well. In fact, I'm going to build my post frame the same way you have been building your dream shop but a different style. I like vaulted ceilings so I'm going to use beams like a timber frame instead of trusses like you use.
Awesome
Your comfort board came from Milton Ontario, I know that because the truck that delivered it had Ontario plates. That plant would be cool for a tour it’s pretty big.
The rockwool guy should have recommended the mounting spikes that are used for this specific purpose. You screw them in and they have a short spike that you spear the panel onto.
The company I work for use the top rock on some of its projects. Really cool thanks.
Cool. Plant Tour. You can see the material that was ordered 180 days ago being made. Great stuff. Wish the lead time was more reasonable. We are now ordering 6-7 months in advance for sound walls, midfloors and flash and batt jobs.
The sound change was amazing
Lyle and Craig are so fun to watch.!
That was ingenious. 😂
Love the way the Rockwool installs, but at over 3X the cost of fiberglass batts, I have had a hard time justifying it.
"Inginuitive? Is that a word?" Hahahaha, dude this is just one of many, many reasons your channel is so awesome!
Great video!! Only thing I would do is stagger the vertical batts as well, that way the vertical air convection between the batts is only 4’ tall rather than 18’
thanks for teaching !!! ,greetings from ARGENTINA
hi guys, most acoustic panels are made with rockwool filling, so I was thinking that if you cover the the two thirds top part of your walls by a simple diy horizontal slat solution with void in between or cnc wood panels with small holes so you will keep the acoustic sound panels all around at very low cost, and keep that noise reflexion very comfy. And you do the first third with something like metal you are used to for an easy to wash purpose it would make a good looking and nice place to work.
That was an awesome field trip.
Man looks cold Kyle! Love your content. Thank you!!!
this wille be WELL isnulated! love it!
The rockwool tour was dope.
You are legends guys. God bless
Thanks for the factory tour, it was great. Ray
Cool factory tour!
I'd like to see what you and other contractors do about post-construction waste and recycling. Those rockwool wraps use alot of plastic film and there has to be some market to recycle all those batts wraps. And never bury wood waste along the properties. Either recycle or reclaim (as heat source) the scraps. Even nails/screws can be mag-swept and saved to turn in to scrap yards. Oh and a big user of Rockwool.
Maybe a perforated film wrap and link them together somehow to use as the cross bay holders to eliminate the bulging. Probably not rigid enough though,like the strapping
Good morning to you all
Going to check rockwool for my garage insulation now.
i would still run fasteners at half height to prevent inevitable sag inside the cavity over time, else voids will still form
I install that, it will drop inside the wall over time unless you cleat it halfway up. In a few years you’ll have a gap near the soffit and lose a lot of heat.
In school for hydraulic and pneumatic automation, so seeing automated machine is pretty awesome. Thanks!
A bunch of years ago at the ICAA Show the Roxul booth had a blow torch that was blasting a Batt all day, everyday of the show. They also had a framed room with Roxul Batt in the wall - walk down the hall, make a left turn and you couldn’t hear any of the noise from the show.
I vacuum Old Mineral Wool out of attics a couple times a year and nobody is interested in recycling the material.
LOVE FACTORY TOURS 😉
UGH... Got a cold itchy shivver watching this... I worked as a Millwright at the now defunct Fibrex Insulation foundry that made the exact same product, here in Sarnia Ontario Canada. It was hot, dusty, itchy, low light and took years off my life. As a side note, the owner of the plant actually came from Chicago Illinois. That Plant You visited was impecably clean and well lit.
Love the factory tour!
Very impressive install.
Love it so much keep it up as always 💘
I swore I heard Greg say “you are sagging in the middle “ not staggered ..but was staggered & sagging..either way an amazing video & yes the nails coming through the plywood would stab & hold the batts
that was very interesting, knowing now how the ground/roofsheets(we call it markisolering, ground insulation) are made, and im guessing the fluffier wall sheets are made the same. there is rockwool and there is isover(wich suck). rockwool is da best
Great product easy-to-use
I'm allergic to the pink stuff. Definitely using Rockwool next build!
Question here. Why did you remove the lag bolts from your column brackets?
To replace them with bigger ones
@@RRBuildings Gotcha. Thank you for the reply Kyle!
Pretty cool, great product!
On this episode of the dream shop: How It's Made!
Like if you binged this show as a kid!
As always, love the content. Top tier content and editing. Favorite channel for sure!
Kyle Rockwool is far superior insulation to regular insulation and it doesn’t burn as its fire retardant. By the look of this building it will be very warm and easy to heat and cool!!!
That surely is the goal!!
That’s a lot cleaner than when I worked in a factory in Joplin MO where we made Rockwool cement insulation for insulating pipes. It was nasty nasty to use.
great factory tour…
Noticed the sound change as soon as you came back on camera after the first wall.
Very Interesting!! Thanks. ❤👌🤟
With the entirely filled cavities I’m wondering how much it complicates the electrical work. I suppose there is still space to run vertical behind the girts once they’re on. I’d be interested in seeing a bit on the electrical with this project when it gets there. Thanks for the detailed information you’re providing on your project, cool stuff!
Big fan of this series. However Rockwool and other ceramic insulation materials like glass fibre are rapidly loosing ground here in The Netherlands. The harmful fibres and polluting production process brought much interest to biobased alternatives. Some alternatives based on wood, hemp, flax and straw show excellent performance in acoustics, fire resistance, and installation speed. Maybe you could team up with a company from NL/DE in your next build? You're open sheeted stick frame walls seem very suitable for blown in straw! Greetings from NL
Someone tag those people who build mud huts and dig pools with a stick. Time for them to upgrade and start melting rocks and making their own insulation
THat stuff is awesome!
I found your channel a couple months ago. Love the thoughtfulness behind your choices and construction methods. I am curious why you decided to not stagger the seams of your insulation? I might be over thinking it. Beautiful work!
Rockwell.
Would you do anything different to the installation procedure to improve the performance of this product?
👍 to eliminating those air gaps. One of the best insulations in its category.