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Floor growth
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comment 1
Please put fiberglass insulation between your floor joists, vapor harrier up.
Comment by
errol
— Sat Nov 7 07:58:08 2009
comment 2
I was on the fence about that --- you may have pushed me over to adding the insulation. The Reflectix packaging says that in a floor joist situation, it'll give an R value of 17 (but that's for floor joists 9.5" deep, while ours are only 5.5".) Suggested floor R values for our region are R25 to R30, so you're probably right that we should add some insulation. Too bad we already made our town trip for the week! I'll see what we can dig up out of the barn.
Comment by
anna
— Sat Nov 7 08:41:01 2009
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We decided to use Reflectix to provide an
insulation barrier for the new floor. The next step will be to secure
down the joists with the proper brackets so we can actually mount the
plywood so it can then grow up to be a nice and respectable floor.