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How to Insulate Key Locations in a Home
Click on the images below to learn key insulation considerations for specific locations in your house and get tips on how to insulate each location properly. Insulation guide: Houses are complicated; full of angles, jogs, and turns. Each presents a challenge to having a complete thermal, vapor, and air barrier. In addition, different parts of the house are subject to different microenvironments that will stress your insulation system. Make sure your insulation plan addresses the common weak areas described in these pages. You may also find these location descriptions diagnostic for a particular problem that you are experiencing.
How to insulate an overhang or cantilevered floor
How to insulate a basement or crawlspace
How to insulate at the sill plate or timber sill
How to insulate and air seal an attic
How to insulate an interior soffit or dropped ceiling
How to Air Seal Outlets and Switches
How to Insulate Roof Eaves or "Tie Downs"
How to Insulate Window Weight Pockets, Sash Weights Trees, shrubs, and even other buildings can also help to insulate your home. For a solid treatment of this topic visit the yard insulation page at how-you-can-save.comReturn to Home page from How to Insulate page
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