Q: I wonder if ceiling insulation in a basement does any good. The basement is not heated and gets chilly in winter. The ceiling is insulated with 9 inches of fiberglass batting that was once covered ...
You may be losing more heat - and cash - through your basement ceiling than you suspect. But there are steps you can take yourself reduce heating costs and increase comfort. A simple DIY insulation ...
My house is 20 years old and was termed a solar house. I took out the heat pump that was not working very well and installed a boiler that heated water to create heat for air distributing through the ...
Q: I inherited a concrete block building that was then converted into a home several years ago. Part of it has a crawlspace and part is on a concrete slab. The crawlspace is always damp, and the ...
A home's duct system -- the network of tubes in walls, floors and ceilings that carries hot or cold air to each room -- may waste a lot of energy dollars. Many duct systems are poorly insulated or not ...
Q. The heating ducts in our basement are exposed, and I know a lot of heat that I’d like to have upstairs is being lost moving through the ducts. The main duct is large and rectangular and runs almost ...
A common idea promoted across the industry is that any heat lost from an uninsulated duct system to a conditioned space isn’t truly lost and has no effect on energy consumption. Most contractors would ...
Q: We need to re-wrap the heat pipes in our basement. They have old asbestos (-based?) wrap on them. I was told that you could encapsulate the pipes using Future Floor Wax to keep the asbestos dust ...
Q: I inherited a concrete block building that was then converted into a home several years ago. Part of it has a crawlspace and part is on a concrete slab. The crawlspace is always damp, and the ...
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