*
I’m contemplating wheter to add insulation to my basement or not.
It currently being framed up and I know in the winters, it’s not even cold unheated. Since the boiler is down there and when the heater was hooked up, it was pretty warm. I have a hot water heating system and all the water passes through this heater connection.
The basement was know to leak water every 2 years or so when it rained Heavy. City sewar systems is too slow for heavy rain. When I opened up the walls, there was a crack from each of the basement windows. Opened those suckers up and patched it up hydraulic cement. So far so good.
I’m contemplaing NOT insulating the walls before the walls go up. In the even’t that it does leak, fiberglass won’t dry. Styrofoam is an option but the interior wall is pretty far out from the foundation wall. Blown in insulation is an option (the sticky stuff..not fiberglass) but it’s nopt very popular here in NYC, so BIB insulation contractors are scare.
Should I take the plunge and insulate or just leave it as it.
Replies
*
How thick are the concrete walls? There must be a formula for "R" values per poured inch of concrete.
But then again, how are you gonna keep that moisture out of your framing? My guess is the warm air down there absorbs a lot of that moisture. If you stop the warm air from circulating against those concrete walls, are you gonna create moisture problems? I think it's important to find a way to keep that moisture from coming through the concrete before you build those walls.
BUT, I don't live and work in that climate, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn here. I remember Mike Guertin writing an article in FHB recently about finishing basements, and I think he's in Rouge's Island, maybe he discussed that very thing.
*
I'm contemplating wheter to add insulation to my basement or not.
It currently being framed up and I know in the winters, it's not even cold unheated. Since the boiler is down there and when the heater was hooked up, it was pretty warm. I have a hot water heating system and all the water passes through this heater connection.
The basement was know to leak water every 2 years or so when it rained Heavy. City sewar systems is too slow for heavy rain. When I opened up the walls, there was a crack from each of the basement windows. Opened those suckers up and patched it up hydraulic cement. So far so good.
I'm contemplaing NOT insulating the walls before the walls go up. In the even't that it does leak, fiberglass won't dry. Styrofoam is an option but the interior wall is pretty far out from the foundation wall. Blown in insulation is an option (the sticky stuff..not fiberglass) but it's nopt very popular here in NYC, so BIB insulation contractors are scare.
Should I take the plunge and insulate or just leave it as it.