The Two Healthy Alternatives to Pink Insulation
The defacto, easy, unhealthy insulation option lurking in walls and attics, is invariably pink. When discerning clients question what is in the walls, it is inevitably gypsum and fiberglass, two energy intensive building bad-boys that get picked because they come with familiarity and a low price tag. But what is the cost of this low price tag? What are we sacrificing when it comes to the health of our homes and those that dwell within its walls? Beyond the pink, fluffy, and slightly noxious horizon lives a small handful of viable, healthy insulation options that promote the health of not just your home, but your family.
UPDATE: Quartz Countertops are Now Officially a Commodity.
On April 17, 2018, Cambria Quartz filed a Countervailing and Antidumping lawsuit, claiming the Chinese quartz industry displaced 1.2B dollars of US Quartz in 2017. This is already having major consequences for the quartz industry on a global scale. Here's what you need to know:
IWF Recap: Our Booth, Experience & Takeaways
The International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta kicked off on August 26 with two halls filled with equipment vendors, wood product vendors, accessories vendors and wild-eyed attendees trying to weave their way through the aisles.
Our Modern Surfaces booth displayed a creative, yet practical take on the "man cave," using PaperStone, Lapitec and reSAWN products in a number of applications.
A Checklist for Choosing a Building Materials Distributor
You have a great product and you are ready to get it to market. Choosing your path to market can be difficult. Do you go at it alone or rely on a distributor to help you get there? Let’s say you have already opted to partner with a distributor. What are you looking for in a partner?
If you find yourself at a crossroad and are struggling to figure out what the next step is for your business, our guide can help. Read more to get access to a checklist we made that makes this process simple.
Acoustics 101 - A Succinct Primer on Sound Control
Sound control can be daunting. There are so many acronyms and types of sound. It is hard to know what sound issues you are even having. So how do you figure out how to fix them if we don’t even know what the different terms mean?
We'll break it down for you and show you how it relates to the design world.
Trading in the Tradeshow - Networking Just Got A LOT Smaller
The days of the tradeshow are waning, or largely dead if you listen to some, including me. Tradeshows are no longer a place to reach your customers and show them what is new. They are no longer a venue for courting new customers and teaching them the valuable aspects of your business and what you can do for them. Rather, tradeshows are places where you network with colleagues, size up the competition and forget which booth they had which product at, relegating you to the internet to go look up what you didn’t know you didn’t know but would have figured out anyway.
Read more to see our bulleted list on how to set up a roundtable discussion, a truly valuable way of networking.
What’s In Your Wall?
If you don't want to touch it, why would you want to breathe it?
Read about our latest product - Havelock Wool Insulation!
What the WELL
Oh great, another building standard. Oh great, another acronym.
Not so fast, my pessimistic friend.
WELL is a new building standard. But it is about you. Yes, even you. Unlike its structure focused predecessors - LEED and Green Globes, WELL is about people and health.
Read more to learn about the new building standard- WELL.
Sound Control Gets SEXY
You can take your ACT and shove it up your ceiling. Roll up your carpets, folks, the old school acoustics are sounding off.
Sound control just got really appealing. Gone are the days of a perforated cube or rectangle suspended in a metal grid hanging 3 feet over your head with water stains from who-knows-what and who-knows-when. The new generation of sound control is not just colorful, it's three dimensional and incredibly functional. It is sustainable.
Read more about Kirei and the beautiful benefits of this new acoustical product.
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CaraGreen distributes building materials throughout the US. Our eco-friendly products include sustainable countertops and other surfacing materials including cladding, as well as recycled insulation and acoustical products. Our brands include Lapitec sintered stone, Kirei EchoPanel, PaperStone surfacing and cladding and Durat recycled solid surface. Our focus on sustainability, the environment and education at the architect and design level differentiate us from others in our market.
Latest Posts
- The Two Healthy Alternatives to Pink Insulation November 09, 2018
- UPDATE: Quartz Countertops are Now Officially a Commodity. October 15, 2018
- IWF Recap: Our Booth, Experience & Takeaways October 01, 2018
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