Although it is possible to purchase real wood doors or have them custom made, more and more kitchens have one form or another of plasticized doors, generally made of MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard, compressed wood fibres) and covered with various plastics, acrylics or polymers.
Plastics were fi...
Eleminating ordinary paint odours
Are you tired of the smell of paints and finishes? There are now several products on the market that you add to your paint and when it starts to dry on the wall, this chemically reacts with those molecules that cause the odour and stop those odours.
It works wi...
Common Name: Cellulose Fiber, ground up newspapers.
Colour: Grey or white.
Thermal Resistance: RSI - .025/mm R - 3.6/in. Good
Cost: Lowest plus blower. (The only blowers that can be rented by homeowners)
Capacity to dry out if wet: Fair to poor
Fire Resistance: Good to Fair (Borax can leach ...
Example: Styrofoam products by Dow (by the way, Styrofoam is a Dow Chemical brand name and not a generic term for foam insulation).
Colour: Blue (Dow) or Pink (Celfort)
Thermal Resistance: RSI - .035/mm R - 5.0/in. Very high.
Cost: high
Capacity to dry out if wet: Won't get wet
Fire Resistan...