Insulation between 1st and 2nd floor?
tetwin11
11 years ago
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Comments (26)Looks good! I just wanted to comment on this: But seriously, we have owned A LOT of houses, and I have NEVER had one that had insulation between the 1st and 2nd floor. And I am not sure how not having insulation in the ceiling would make the floors cold upstairs? Seems like it would be the opposite. Most houses don't have insulation between the first and second floors. When we ripped the carpets out of my office above the family room, it got really loud. DH complained he was trying to watch TV and he could hear my chair rolling on the bare laminate floor. We were doing other family room renos, so we added insulation specifically for that reason. It will probably be a kid's room in the future, so I like the idea that you can't hear the TV from that room now. But it's unique. And yes, unless your living room is cold, the lack of insulation in the floor is not going to make the bedrooms cold. If you've got a fireplace or other heat source in the living room, the lack of insulation will allow that heat to move up into the bedroom....See MoreRemove insulation when finishing 2nd floor?
Comments (1)Keep it there. It is a noise block. If your upstairs is hot in summer, you need better insulation/circulation (heat rises) between the roof and the upstairs, not to take out the insulation between the floors. If you do that, you will have a hotter house, all around. For winter, doesn't your upstairs have heat? Keep it that way. If you are losing a lot of heat out the roof, taking out the insulation will only mean that you will lose more heat as it will travel even faster from downstairs out your roof. If it is a problem, then you need to improve your roof insulation, not worry about what is between the floors. (btw--I live in a cape too, and it was finished at two times (first floor, then second). And, we love the sound barrier the insulation provides.)...See MoreInsulated second floor and now the 1st floor is colder???
Comments (1)This last winter was a cold winter pretty much everywhere in the US. It could just be a fluke. Remember that out door ambient temps are the direct load of a structure. Did you insulate the first floor too? Your mind could be playing tricks on you.... because now the 2nd floor is much warmer, the other conclusion is that heat rises and because you sealed up the 2nd floor and insulated it retains the heat....See MoreTransition from 2nd story front entrance to 1st story driveway/street
Comments (15)"... planning to bring the drive up as high as possible now, though ... we don't want it so high that it starts to block that lower-level window on the left." Your problem with getting good feedback is going to be that you're starting this process without properly introducing people to the surrounding site. We have only a snippet of information ... more or less a theoretical house front. Not a complete front yard or a driveway or even a good picture that shows the land/house relationship. As it is, every solution offered is already limited by your own preconceived notions, which limit what you show us. We've been here before and didn't come to a conclusion that you got excited. The set-up now is little different. Whatever you do architecturally, outside of changing the main entrance to the basement floor, will make no difference insofar as solving the problem, which has not yet been clearly identified (the path from parking-to-front-door problem.) No one can investigate how changing the approach to the house might work toward solving your problem. Most other threads on the forum seem to reach a more or less successful conclusion because they involve a little planting or a simple problem. Here, the problem is much more complex, but the base information is threadbare. Like a newspaper that starts with the front page headlines, and then goes to article titles, and then on to elaboration of details, is how you should be presenting information. We should see the whole front yard at a distance, some sequential pictures that show the present approach, some wide span scenes (from slightly overlapping pictures) that show the area from at least 2, or maybe three different points of view, since there is topography involved. (Each point of view should be a complete scene ... not a disconnected picture.) A landscape architect could not assess and explore the issue with so little information to go on. I'm not trying to be a downer about your thread or issue, but trying to say if you want to be happy when you leave, you've got to produce enough information to work with....See Moretim45z10
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