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Materials to Watch: Mycelium, Low-Carbon Concrete, 3D-Printed Walls and Smart Glass

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 41 reads

Materials to Watch: Mycelium, Low-Carbon Concrete, 3D-Printed Walls and Smart Glass

Four material technologies regularly appear in renovation headlines. Where each one actually stands in 2026 — commercially available, pilot, or laboratory — and what a homeowner can realistically order today.

#emerging materials #mycelium #low-carbon concrete

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Recycled Materials Move Into Kitchens, Floors and Walls

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 40 reads

Recycled Materials Move Into Kitchens, Floors and Walls

Recycled-content surfaces have left the eco-showroom and entered mainstream renovations, helped by EU product rules that now demand environmental data. What is actually in these materials, how they perform and what they cost.

#recycled materials #recycled glass #terrazzo

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Mass Timber Comes Home: CLT Extensions and Roof Storeys

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 40 reads

Mass Timber Comes Home: CLT Extensions and Roof Storeys

Cross-laminated timber has moved from 80-metre towers to single-family extensions. Why its weight, speed and carbon profile fit renovation — and the details on fire, acoustics and moisture that still need designing.

#CLT #cross laminated timber #mass timber

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Acoustic Materials at Home: Felt Panels, Slatted Walls, Wood Wool and Mass

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📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 40 reads

Acoustic Materials at Home: Felt Panels, Slatted Walls, Wood Wool and Mass

Slatted acoustic walls are the most visible interior trend of the decade, but they solve only one of two acoustic problems. What absorbs echo, what blocks the neighbours, and the numbers on the data sheets.

#acoustics #soundproofing #acoustic panels

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Large-Format and Thin Porcelain Tiles: Tiling Over Old Tiles

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 38 reads

Large-Format and Thin Porcelain Tiles: Tiling Over Old Tiles

Tiles have grown to 120 × 120 cm and slimmed to 6 mm. Both changes make it possible to re-tile a bathroom or floor without stripping the old tiles — provided flatness, adhesive class and joints follow the numbers.

#porcelain tiles #large format tiles #thin tiles

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Breathable Finishes: Lime Plaster, Clay Plaster, Limewash and Silicate Paint

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 19 reads

Breathable Finishes: Lime Plaster, Clay Plaster, Limewash and Silicate Paint

Mineral and earth finishes are back in European renovation for a measurable reason: they move moisture and resist mould. What each material does, where it must not be used, and how to tell a real limewash from a paint that only looks like one.

#lime plaster #clay plaster #limewash

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Façade Renovation Materials: Fibre Cement, HPL, Render Systems and Modified Timber

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 15 reads

Façade Renovation Materials: Fibre Cement, HPL, Render Systems and Modified Timber

A façade renovation is usually the moment to add insulation. The four material families used on European houses, with their fire classes, lifespans, maintenance intervals and costs.

#facade #cladding #fibre cement

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Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 13 reads

Underfloor Heating in Existing Homes: Low-Profile Retrofit Systems

Wet underfloor heating used to need 60–80 mm of new screed. Retrofit systems now add 15–25 mm, pair well with heat pumps and can go over an existing floor. The outputs, build-ups and limits in numbers.

#underfloor heating #retrofit #low profile

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Microcement: Seamless Floors and Walls Without Demolition

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 17 reads

Microcement: Seamless Floors and Walls Without Demolition

Microcement gives the polished-concrete look in a coating only 2–3 mm thick, applied over existing tiles or screed. Facts on build-up, durability, cost and the substrate conditions that decide whether it lasts.

#microcement #micro-topping #seamless floor

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Rigid-Core Vinyl Flooring (SPC and WPC): What the Labels Really Mean

Renovations

📅 2026-10-10 08:42:28.085549 👁️ 15 reads

Rigid-Core Vinyl Flooring (SPC and WPC): What the Labels Really Mean

Rigid-core vinyl is one of the fastest-growing hard floors in Europe because it clicks over old floors and shrugs off water. The acronyms, the numbers that matter, and where it should not go.

#vinyl flooring #SPC #WPC

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