As part of a remodel, I’ve taken off the dry wall on my exterior walls and am replacing the insulation. When I opened up the walls, I was surprised to find that whoever installed the old stuff had pushed it in and stapled it to the sides of the studs, and not the faces (i.e., not the side of the stud that faces the drywall).
I had assumed that I should staple the batts on the faces of the studs, and that pushing them in to staple them to the sides would compress the insulation and reduce its r value.
Am I missing something?
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That's how many insulation installers would attach the batts- to the sides. And youre right- it's sub-par work. Part of the reason for this is that batts did not have the flanges they now have. With the method you described, it compresses the batts and leaves an uninsulated gap. My house was also like this. I replaced them,insulated properly and cut my heating bills at least 45%....
That's interesting. You fixed the FG batts, right? The party line on BT is that FG is so last century, and that anyone who doesn't install dense pack or foam is wasting their time and money.