Welcome to Foam University, today we're going to talk about what happens when
you only insulate one small area of your home. So here's the thing, we get this
question all the time. Someone will call in they'll say you know, "My son's bedroom
is really cold," or "The kitchen is freezing," or "The upstairs room is really
hot." There's always one small area of the house that is a real problem area it's either
too hot, too cold it, too drafty, whatever it may be, and they want to just
insulate that area. Can it be done? Yeah, of course you can just insulate the
walls, ceiling, or floor of just that area, no problem. However, that may not get you
the results that you really want. What I mean is, if you just insulate, let's say
the walls of one bedroom at one end of the house, it's basically like having a
leaking water balloon and just sealing up one hole. Now you're still losing the
same amount of water and the pressure that you lose the water and the other
holes is actually going to increase. So, same thing works in your house, if you
seal up one leaky area, you're still losing air, you're still losing heat, cold,
whatever it may be and you may not see the results as far as comfort. Almost
never, you'll see the results as far as energy savings and there's almost no way
to really predict how your air in your house is going to move now because
you've changed the whole dynamics, right? Airflow had one exit and we sealed that
up, so now it's gonna try to find other exits. Remember, high pressure always
wants to go to low pressure and inside of our house, especially in wintertime, if
we're gonna be heating up the air, we're filling this house up with all this warm
air that you're paying for, it's gonna want to try to find a way out. So, you
have all these leaks and crevices, all throughout your house and if you seal
one up again, it's just gonna find somewhere else. So can you solve a
problem of just having a cold bedroom on one area of the house? You could
oftentimes, it would require doing the walls, the top, whether that's the Attic
over just that area as well as a crawlspace. Again, just that area, if you
encapsulate the whole thing can in prove the comfort in that single spot?
Yes it can, however if your goals range outside of that, such as you know comfort
and other is at a house or savings in your bills probably not going to see
that, and again keep in mind as you've changed the dynamics of your building
now, you could find that another area of the house is now the uncomfortable room.
You could potentially just be moving your problem spot to another area of the
house. We get this call all the time, we'll come out one year and do a bedroom for
example, the next year we're out doing a bathroom and every time we try to
educate and we'd hate to see any homeowner waste money on any type of
project insulation, especially because the whole point of insulation is to save
money and make us comfortable. Right ,so again, can you make one area of the house
more comfortable energy-efficient by just insulating that area? Yes you can,
but just bear in mind it is more complicated than that.
I would strongly recommend having a competent contractor out to your house,
going over your entire house as a system, looking at you know where you're having
air loss, where you're getting these heat losses and different issues throughout
your house to say you know if we did this one area it's gonna make that more
comfortable. However, be aware down the road, you still may be moving that problem
somewhere else. Hope this information was helpful, if you have a question, if you
have one bad area of the house. I know a lot of us have that one room that we
don't go in, in the wintertime because it's too cold. A lot of factors come into
play. Drop us a comment, tell us about it, we'd
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