Insulating My Cabin With WOOD! Timber HP TimberBatt | Cabin Build - Ep.9

[@shaneclark207]

Nice Job, Chris!!! Impressive progress. Hats off to Pops. Pretty sure you're the first channel on the Tube to show this product actually being used!!!!! Great hook up!!!! Cutting edge. 👊🏼👍🏼🤙🏼

[@TR.Actual]

Borate is what the forest services dump on wildfires by airplane to knock down the flames. Impressive that they have included that element into this product. I’m mid-home addition at the moment and am going to look into TimberBatts first our home in VT.

[@SphagnumUsnea]

8:53 You have this a bit backwards. The vapor drive in the winter is from inside to outside. In humid summer, especially with AC going inside, it is outside to inside. What you want to avoid is warm humid air contacting a surface that is below dewpoint because that causes condensation and subsequent mold, etc. In winter, that's generally the sheathing. In summer, it is the inside wall (where you are installing the membrain). So in the winter, you DON'T want the warm humid inside air traveling to your cold exterior sheathing. The Membrain, and similar products, first and foremost prevent the air itself from traveling outside, but they also slow vapor diffusion. In the summer, the conditions change and it then allows more vapor to diffuse INTO the house-- vapor that is traveling from outside. This is good because otherwise with AC you can get condensation on something like poly, which doesn't 'open up' to let that inward vapor drive pass through.

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@SphagnumUsnea thank you

[@Nello353]

I,m 92 and haven’t fished thru the ice close to 60 years. My dad was an avid fisherman and loved ice fishing and he and I would go as soon as the ice was safe,We didn,t have an augur ,we used a long steel bar with a chisel end if the ice was 5 or6 inches thick the bar was fine. We had more good days than bad. I,m sorry for having rambled on,but my only fishing and hunting is on YT and I seldom contribute.

[@travishaskell6897]

I had a feeling that was the new product you mentioned a couple videos back...I was curious about that stuff so I'm glad to see you used it...place is looking really nice

[@moztheravensfan]

Pretty cool to buy and use a local product like that

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

For sure !

[@markg_ogb]

could you please explain a bit about how you handled the roof? What layering did you do and how did you vent it and all that?

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@markg_ogb you can see it in earlier videos we just used plywood on the roof, and underlayment for water and moisture protection. Left a gap in the ridge for venting. Used the styrofoam baffles to vent air from the eves to the vent

[@markg_ogb]

@ thanks man, found it

[@mrnatermater123]

Got a bunch of spoons and spinners this monday from ya, cant wait to use them up north this spring!! Rock on brotha camp is looking good!!

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

Thank you! Good luck .

[@ducoh2093]

really interested in wood fiber. Great R-value, thermal mass, sound damping, healthy environment, good for the planet. Hope one day they could somehow integrate straw in it.

[@207ice2woods]

Another cool fact is it leaves a negative carbon footprint, as outdoorsman that’s a great thing.

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

Yup! That’s the claim

[@Dorchwoods]

Love it! Im currently building an a-frame camp in coplin plantation, right next door to eustis. I was on the fence about TimberHP but you sold me on it! You think I'd be able to stack 2 rows for r44?

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@Dorchwoods yup, you’ll need an 11” cavity. Also, try overlapping the seams if you can.

[@Dorchwoods]

@@mainetroutwhisperer yeah the a-frame kit I built has 11" LVL trusses, they're huge

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@Dorchwoods perfect!

[@brandonpriest2606]

What body of water is this on?

[@heathergibson7507]

Looks good! Now you gotta name the cabin! Lol

[@Utah_Mike]

Looks interesting for sure! How about insects and rodents? Cabin looking great

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

Borate that they treat it with repels the insects

[@Vegfarm207]

What's the benefit of Timber HP over dense pack cellulose? How did you insulate behind pipes and receptacle boxes? Seems like it would be a pain to fit well into tight spaces. Just curious. Looks like an awesome product for small jobs and DIYers.

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

They do have a dense pack and loose fill option. Outlet boxes are easy actually with the batting. Just cut out a square for it and slide it right in behind. Other places youu have to be a little more creative. I just took left over pieces and stuffed them in areas that needed it. Packed all my headers full of pieces etc. stuff cuts well to fit in any opening, but I used a lot of little chunks to fill cracks here and there

[@NorthernFreighterCanoe]

Nice work! Thanks for using a locally sourced material!

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@NorthernFreighterCanoe try to as much as possible!

[@SteveG_Maine_]

Can you tell me the cost? I'm sure I could call around during the day but if you give a ballpark of what you paid per sq foot it would be helful. Thanks

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

I called a local lumber yard yesterday about the 5.5” stuff 16”oc. $34.40 per bundle of 4 for timberbatt. Rockwool was $80 per bundle of 8.

[@SteveG_Maine_]

@@mainetroutwhisperer Thank you for the info. Much appreciated.

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

@@SteveG_Maine_ no problem!

[@ethanorians]

I love the idea of this product but I have a really hard time wrapping my head around it. Insulation is a big topic right now in residential design and construction. All the science always points to wood being a terrible insulator and tons of heat being lost through wall studs.

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

I’m not in the building industry but it seems like in its natural state like framing materials that would be accurate. The way this is constructed I have to believe it works like any other insulation. They have been using this product in Europe for years. I mean they used to sue wood shavings to store ice back in the day. I also noticed when we picked it up, the product was in the warm mill, was on our trailer for half hour maybe in 35-40 degree temps as we drove it to the cabin. When we unloaded it it was still warm inside the bundles. I will do a review after the first winter with it to see how it all works out.

[@ethanorians]

@@mainetroutwhisperer would love to hear how well it works! I like the idea of the product but I'm really skeptical, I definitely can not bring myself to spec it in my projects yet.

[@FreekHoekstra]

Its a good question, glass is also a poor insulator and so is rock, the way insulation works is to trap air, So theres little fibers that stop the air moving (convection) and that means the heat has to conduct through tiny fibers and air. And that slows down the heat transfer. And this does that about as well as rockwool or fiberglass.

[@SphagnumUsnea]

Instead of being skeptical, why not do research and read the reports from identical products being used across the pond? All the information is there for you to research and understand both the science and the real-world behavior of it. Wood studs are considered a thermal bridge, but not nearly as much as metal, stone, or glass. Yet fiberglass and mineral wool work when spun into insulation, eh? Are you skeptical of those too?

[@ethanorians]

@@SphagnumUsnea I have done my research and yes I am skeptical of those other products as well.

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[@NorthwoodsBuilders]

This stuff is junk, number one it is twice the price of Rockwool. Also it’s just some joke of a product to trying and help the woods industry in Maine. Still not convinced it’s any good.

[@mainetroutwhisperer]

Not sure where you got your prices from but It’s actually cheaper than Rockwool. As of today from a local lumber yard for 5.5” batts it’s $34.40 for 4 pack of Timber HP and $80.00 for 8 pack of Rockwool of same size.

[@NorthwoodsBuilders]

I’m a contractor and buy from my local yard up north and you can’t convince me to switch.

[@Wrangler98]

Wood fiber is a great insulation, and it’s cheaper. But that doesn’t matter to a contractor that passes the cost to the customer anyways…

[@shaneclark207]

Have you ever used it? Ands What's wrong with helping the the forestry industry?

[@shaneclark207]

Do you even know what rock wool is? That's a product designed to help buffer the mining industry!!!!!