You can either insulate the existing doors yourself or buy insulated doors.Often a door to an unheated garage or basement was never intended to keep the heat in. In addition to weather-stripping these doors, add insulation to the outside. Foam panels are the easiest way to do this, but they ...
Double doors, like double windows, can help a great deal to save heat, but first, two considerations:-- The tighter of the two doors (better weather-stripping, better door) must be on the inside when the doors are on the same frame as moisture must escape outward.-- Glass storm doors must not b...
When scientists measure the movement of heat (thermal transfer) through a material, they calculate it in something called the U-factor, a measure of thermal conductivity. A small number indicates a material that conducts heat poorly and a high one indicates a material that conducts heat well....
Joan insulated her basement using dense insulation made for steel doors, then discovered moisture behind the vapour barrier and is worrying if it is the insulation that is causing the problem.No Joan, there can be lots of reasons for moisture in a basement wall, and even the researchers are tr...
Rick is complaining that the attic he lives in is too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer.It is hard to get good insulation, and proper roof space ventilation, when you are trying to keep as much space as possible available for a living space under the roof. The key is to insulate heavi...
Garry from Madoc, Ontario sent in the recommendation of locating full-arm veterinary gloves (cost 25 cents from a farm supply store) when working with fiberglass.You could also cover up with newspaper wrappers or bread wrappers to keep your arms itch free. And disposable work suits are available...
You should not put any insulation or sealing materials inside the electrical boxes as the air space is needed to keep the wires from overheating.In new construction we set the electrical box inside a "poly-pan" which then seals down to the vapour barrier, giving an air-tight electrical box. ...
Tanya from Surrey, British Columbia has a very shallow, very wet, very cold crawl space under her house, and the heating bills show it. She has tried all the weather-stripping and caulking she can do up in the house. Now what to do about the crawl space?First, despite the fact that there is ...
If you have ever tried to clean the insulating foam in a can off of your hands or your tools, or urethane adhesives, or oil paint, or dried latex caulking?. you will rejoice at this nifty innovation that showed up at my door recently.Simply called "Hand and Tool Towels" by Bostick, they come in ...
Steve writes: Could you tell me if tinfoil vapour barrier is " legally" considered insulation? I bought a house two years ago and just discovered that there wasn?t any insulation in the walls, only this tinfoil stuff. The sellers lawyer claims this is classified as insulation so the se...
