That was a straight-up old school "This Old House" episode, complete with the factory visit in the middle. 😊

The Rockwool tour was really interesting, thanks for sharing 👍🏻

Kyle, you have a 2nd calling as the new host for "how it's made" series on home building products!

Thanks for taking us along for the rock wool factory tour. HQ 2.0 is really coming along nicely

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.

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!

People can say what they want but I love that insulation clotting table.

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.

Such a cool tour intro/outro! Please do more of those in the future!

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!!

That building is going to have incredible sound and thermal insulation.

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 effective r value of the wall must be phenomenal!

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.

That is a really nice wall system, plenty of insulation and no thermal bridging. Well done!

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

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.

Your shop is going to be toasty warm in the winter.....and cool & crisp with AC in the summer.

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.

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!

That product tour was amazing.

I was so glad to see another video available. Looking good gentlemen!

The sound quality now, when you were up near the completed wall, compared to when the shop was bare, was crazy.

Wow !! That was a very cool learning experience!!

Very nice guys, it's always nice to have the product expert right there for any questions!! The tour was really neat!!

Placed RW in the exterior walls, attic and around the bedrooms; love the stuff!

I like the factory tours.

Definitely want to watch the rockwool pros and cons video!

Awesome episode!!! Really appreciate the factory tour! Very informative!!! Thank you Kyle and Greg! You guys rock!!

Thanks for taking us to see the production of the product Rock Wool.

Rockwool is AWESOME!!!! Thanks for the video Kyle! 😁👍🏼😁👍🏼

Really liked the factory tour. Thanks. The cutting jig is pretty clever.

Man looks cold Kyle! Love your content. Thank you!!!

Very impressive install.

Thanks for the factory tour, it was great. Ray

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

That was an awesome field trip.

The sound change was amazing

I love Rockwool. I've been using it since 2014. Best insulation on the market.

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

thanks for teaching !!! ,greetings from ARGENTINA

Wonderful tutorial! Loved the tour, too. Very informative. We look forward to seeing your video comparing the rockwool and spray insulation, et al.

Cool factory tour!

That Rockwool is brilliant, it stacks real well and holds its self to the wall, And looks good too.

With that amount of insulation - and the attention to detail of the installation - you could probably heat that place with a hairdryer. Great work.

You are legends guys. God bless

Pretty cool, great product!

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❤

Love the factory tour!

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

this wille be WELL isnulated! love it!

The rockwool tour was dope.

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

LOVE FACTORY TOURS 😉

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...

Love how the audio changes as you progressed, from slightly echo'y to slightly flat sound, wish i had it in my house.

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.

Great product easy-to-use

Lyle and Craig are so fun to watch.!

I liked the product tour. Would love to see more of those.

Little tight Greg, little loose Greg. Imagine living with this guy 24/7.

Good morning to you all

80° warmer down the road at the factory

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.

THat stuff is awesome!

great factory tour…

The company I work for use the top rock on some of its projects. Really cool thanks.

Going to check rockwool for my garage insulation now.

That was ingenious. 😂

Very Interesting!! Thanks. ❤👌🤟

"Inginuitive? Is that a word?" Hahahaha, dude this is just one of many, many reasons your channel is so awesome!

It's great 👍

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Rock on!

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’

Question here. Why did you remove the lag bolts from your column brackets?

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.

Love the way the Rockwool installs, but at over 3X the cost of fiberglass batts, I have had a hard time justifying it.

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!

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.

I'm allergic to the pink stuff. Definitely using Rockwool next build!

Greg so fast he could have done the entire building by himself in one day. If he wanted to.

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

In school for hydraulic and pneumatic automation, so seeing automated machine is pretty awesome. Thanks!

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!

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.

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.

Noticed the sound change as soon as you came back on camera after the first wall.

Thanks for sharing. Love the product. We use it in our projects also. What guide and hand saw were you using to make your rips. Thanks!

What insulation did you use in your old shop? I’ve only been watching for about a yr and a half and don’t know much about your old building. That is also neat how you got to tour the insulation factory!

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.

Now you have the biggest recording booth ever.

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.

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!

Very nice