My house was freezing this morning! I know it went down to 50ish last night but my house was 65 this morning. Im not going to turn the heat on yet but I dont think i have enough insulation up in the attic. Home depot has this little ruler that shows how much you need to have depending where you live. I guess up here in Buffalo is says something like 19" of insul…yea…I have 5.5" between my 2x6’s.
Anyone increase their insul last year and see a difference?
One thing that will suck is if i do increase the insul another 13" or so. Ill be knee deep in it when trying to run wires next time i go up there…and thats gonna suck
I’m going to spend like $300 later this month on blown-in. Best bang-for-the-buck because I’m about the same in my attic. I’ve got between 6-8"; mixed rolls and blown in. HD throws in the blower rental for free if you buy like $100 of the insulation.
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yea R-13=2x4
R-19=2x6
R-30 must be about another 12" or so.
ill find a chart
Yea, I hear huggsceo will come out and do an energy audit for free. BUT, isnt that the company that stole money from people…or did have-ass jobs?
Not that I would have them do the work, ill do that myself…i think
Anyone use them at all. Theres some reviews about them on Google that are pretty bad.
You are most likely losing TONS of heat through your windows if they are not new.
You can insulate all you want but if your windows are old they are no where near as good as new windows, the technolgy has come a long way even in just a few years.
I just finished building my house. We put R-38 cathedral in the ceiling and R-21 in the walls. I also have the best Anderson 400 series windows. Spendy, but worth it. R-38 cathedral is 10 1/2" thick, regular R-38 is 12" thick. I don’t know if that helps you at all.
I heated the house for the entire winter on only 10 face cord of firewood with no other means of heat.
My 1947 Cap Cod style house had ZERO insulation in the Attic/crawlspace, or anywhere in the house for that fact. Last fall i added about R30 value to the attic.
On cold winter mornings it was in the low 50°’s upper 40°’s in my bedroom that has 3 outside walls! With the thermostat set at 60° downstairs.
In the summer it would see 100-110° on a hot day. A newish 10,000btu AC unit could bairly get the temp in the room down to 80°.
Now i saw a high of 85° this summer when it was in the upper 90’s. Last winter i saw a about 60° in the mornings. So it DEF made a big difference! But if you do so you need to make sure that you add venting to the attic, like a ridge vent and soffit vents. The AC unit now can bring the room down to 67° (for sleeping) in about 2 hour’s or so.
My “budgeted bill” also dropped about $20 per month. So it has DEF paid off allready and that was only after 1 winter. I think i spent about $300 in insulation.
wHAT YOU POSTED IS COMPLETELY WRONG, AND DEPENDS ON WHAT DENSITY THE INSULATION YOU USE IS
Thats because that is less than 1 ton of cooling capacity, less than one ton is meant to cool about 600 square feet with about 4% of all wall area being windows. Don’t forget you will only get a 20° DeltaT
If by chance you need any of those styro runner things, let me know, i have a bunch left over from my garage that ill sell you cheap. they’re just wasting space in my garage
I added insulation to my attic last fall. I did the blown in stuff from home depot. It helped a lot. I only had the roll out fiberglass stuff before. I added about 16" of cellulose on top of that. Now the upstairs of my house is noticably warmer in the winter. I also have new replacement windows. I may try to insulate the exterior walls this fall.
