Need insulation advice
Brooks Barnes
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Montana barn: need insulation advice please
Comments (8)The more wood you have to burn, the more you put your indoor-air quality at risk, not to mention the labor involved with proper fire burning. Keep indoor combustion to a minimum with good air-sealing and insulation. Should have researched this a little better before now. Youve missed the most cost effective opportunity of exterior insulation which is internationally prescriptively required in your cold climate. Your best big picture opportunity at this point is your ceiling. I would hang and tape the ceiling before building the interior walls but its probably too late for that too. Air-sealing your attic is one of the most cost-effective opportunities at this point. There are problems with the flash and batt approach but you are unlikely to achieve the same level of air-selaing with caulk at this point. The masonry to wood transition is important and I dont trust expanding foam as a primary air-seal at the window interface. I like to add backer rod, caulk and vapor permeable tape as in this window installation video. If energy efficiency is important, your primary goal should be good blower door test results....See MoreNeed advice on insulated garage doors
Comments (5)Our company runs a local overhead door supply/install/service company. Our best doors are two layers of steel with polyurethane foam insulation between. Cheapest are one layer of aluminum with no insulation, and each panel has a "c-channel" edge top and bottom. Those aftermarket insulating kits are usually just styrofoam panels, the same stuff you'd get with the aluminum doors if you bought them "insulated". Adding these insulation panels is adding next to now weight, so I wouldn't worry about changing your torsion or extension springs. If you're concerned about keeping your garage warmer, also pay close attention to your weather-stripping around the OHD and also the bottom seal. Air leaking around the door is also your enemy. The surrounding weather-stripping is super cheap, and is literally just nailed onto the rough opening framing which will be wood or composite. If your aluminum doors still look nice, it's hard to justify ripping them out for nice insulated steel doors... My garage is fully insulated with nice steel doors, but unless if I heat it it's still the same temp as outside. When I turn my garage heater on, it's still not an air-tight room so it's an expensive process haha...See MoreNeed advice on insulated garage doors
Comments (22)AlabamaTreeHugger --- The attic above the garage has the same ventilation as the rest of the house -- there's a brand new Gerard Stone Coated Steel (Canyon Shake) roof installed on counter battens. The new roof, in and of itself, should keep the house and, therefore, the garage cooler. We are NOT going to cut any holes in the new roof for any reason. Yes, there is a window in the east wall of the garage, and it does open. There is a window in the pedestrian door on the west wall of the garage, but that window does not open....See MoreProfessional advice needed! Basement insulation
Comments (6)I think you missed the point of what I wrote. If scrim-wrapped blanket insulation were the right product for wall insulation, it would be used in all enclosed walls, not just open unfinished basements or open ceiling warehouses. I have gutted too many dank, stinky, moldy basements with batt insulation and all the air gaps behind/around it. I will never go back to batt against concrete in a basement. The information from Joe Lstiburek is expert, technical advice from investigations and studies for the building industry, not haphazard guesses made by a DIYer or "this is what I do where I live." I have a bunch of framed papers on my wall that I attained by learning from other experts, so I have no problem following his work with this issue....See MoreSpringtime Builders
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