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Home Renovation Best Practices for Protecting and Improving Indoor Air Quality
March 2024
by Rachel White
From COVID to cooking contaminants, when learning about a new (or not so new) indoor air hazard, it’s easy to either overreact or underreact — to worry that our buildings ...Read MoreEarly and Often: Our Approach to Talking About Budgeting
December 2022
by Rachel White
A renovation project is typically one of the largest investments that a homeowner will ever make, other than purchasing the home they renovate. ...Read MoreGetting Spray Foam Right
October 2021
by Rachel White
This blog post was originally posted in January 2016, before we fully understood the issues of Read MoreTwo Carbon Smart Ideas in the Attic
June 2021
by Rachel White
A wide-open attic with no storage and no mechanical equipment. I can’t remember the last time we worked in an att...Read MoreWorking With Heat Pumps
March 2021
by Brendan Kavanagh
Almost 10 years ago Byggmeister started installing air-source heat pumps (also referred to as “mini-splits”) as part of our energy retrofit projects. Since t...Read MoreRethinking Our Approach to Insulation
December 2020
by Rachel White
In 2018, the International Government Panel on Climate Change put the world on notice: to avert catastrophic and irreversi...Read MoreManaging a Job for Success
March 2017
by Kristina Eldrenkamp
This past fall, Byggmeister organized a workshop for lead carpenters on project management. The goal was to exchange ideas and best practices for l...Read MoreControlling Pollutants Caused by Cooking
November 2016
by Paul Eldrenkamp
One of Byggmeister’s goals with each project is to improve indoor air quality, including minimizing the pollutants caused by cooking. Cooking, it turns out, is...Read MoreIce Dam It: Don’t Get Mad, Get Insulation (and Air Sealing)
December 2015