one thing you might notice is it may be 90 degrees outside
but it's 120 inside your metal building because of that heat radiating to the
inside from that sun beating on the outside of your metal building all day
how's it going guys welcome back to the patriot diy channel today we're going to be insulating our
metal building now there are a lot of different types of insulation and ways to go about doing
this a lot of times in a metal building it can be a little bit more challenging since
you don't have the wood framing to attach to but we're going to talk about what we've decided to
use a couple of the biggest issues you have to combat with a metal building like this
is one the radiant heat from the sun so if you've ever been in a warehouse or a metal
building like this in the summertime one thing you might notice is it may be 90 degrees outside
but it's 120 inside your metal building because of that heat radiating to the inside from that sun
beating on the outside of your metal building all day now here where we live there can be
crazy temperature swings and metal buildings are notorious for condensating on the inside so the
difference in temperature from outside to inside can cause that condensation on your roof and on
your walls and you're really going to end up having a lot of moisture issues inside you
even have the condensation from the roof raining down on you and your tools and everything else
so we really got to make sure we do something to prevent that now if you like these kind of videos
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give us a thumbs up that really helps us out what we're going to be using is this double bubble foil
insulation now this insulation is made up of two layers of bubble on the inside sandwich between
either two layers of the foil or you can get foil on one side and white on the other side
so that you can have a nice clean white look on the inside of your shop and this is going
to do a couple things for you you know something like this is going to block 97 of that radiant
heat helping keep your inside temperature from heating up on those hot days this type
of insulation also does a great job of preventing that condensation from getting into your building
now a lot of times when we talk about insulation we talk about r value so something like this by
itself is not going to have a huge r value like fiberglass or foam insulation or something like
that this is designed more to prevent that radiant heat and stuff like that if installed correctly
depending on what method you choose to use you can get an r value of three to seven with this
installation as long as you install it correctly you may see a lot of people just sticking this
straight onto that siding of the building that is not the right way to install this you're really
not going to get the benefits out of this if you put it right up against your siding what you need
is an air gap between your siding and this double bubble foil insulation now obviously
we are installing this in an existing building so that is going to come with its own challenges
typically the way this would be installed if it was installed at the time the building was built
is they would erect the framing of the building and then they would wrap the entire thing in
this double bubble insulation and then they would add furring strips on the outside of the studs on
top of the insulation creating that air gap and then mounting the siding to those furring strips
now obviously we can't do it the way they would have done it if it had been installed at the
time the building was built but what we're going to do is we're basically using the same method
we're just going to do it on the inside between the studs so we have our furring strips here these
are one by twos and what we're gonna do is we're gonna use a heavy duty construction adhesive to
fix these furring strips into our wall then we're gonna double side tape our insulation to those
furring strips so we still get full coverage between the studs and we're also allowing that
air gap that this insulation needs to do its best job all right guys now we're going to go
ahead and walk you through the process starting off with these sections of wall and then we'll
move our way up to the ceiling and show you how we're going to do that now let's get started
now the adhesive we're going to be using to attach our furring strips
is this liquid nails heavy duty construction adhesive and remember guys i am going to link
to all these things in the description below so you can get them for yourself
all right guys it is a new day and we are back to install some of this insulation
we've already got our one by twos mounted up on the wall and we've started installing some of
our double-sided tape on these cross beams on the ceiling so now we're actually going to get
some of this insulation up on the wall a couple things you are going to need is a good razor knife
um and you can do this with ladders but let me tell you it is a lot easier and a lot safer if
you can get some scaffolding that's going to help you get up there to those heights
without having to come up and down a whole bunch another thing we found that makes the process a
lot easier is if you can get some of these clamps to help hold the insulation in place while you're
getting everything positioned and taping it down now let's climb up here and get started
now the ceiling already has some cross beams going across it so we don't have to use any one by twos
to get that air gap so we can just put our double-sided tape right onto those cross beams
and we've already got some of that tape installed
you can see what i'm doing here to keep it nice and clean is i'm just cutting on either side
of that post and then i'm tucking the excess in over top of that beam
and that's going to give you a nice clean flat look
all right guys we are officially done with the ceiling i think that turned out really nice
got the hang of it pretty quick everything looks nice and flat and clean
so
all right guys we are officially finished with the insulation in this metal building
it took a lot longer than i thought it was going to uh and i do want to show you guys a couple
other things that i ended up doing that really helped out so let's take a quick look around
all right guys as you can see we are completely finished with the walls the ceiling there's our
back wall there now this wall that's not done that's an interior wall that's just between these
two rooms here so there's no reason to insulate that unless you just have the extra material
you can see we did our bathroom in here as well now this is just a little side room we have off
the shop and you can tell i didn't spend quite as much time getting everything perfect on the
ceiling and the walls of this one as long as it's up there because these walls are actually going to
get faced with reclaimed barn wood and the same thing with this wall going between the two rooms
so that's another project we are going to be doing on the channel so make sure you stay tuned for
that here's our front wall now that front wall just because of the windows and the
door did require to cut some smaller pieces but it actually went up a lot faster than trying to
fight with a big long piece i did want to show you a couple things that we did end up doing
just to help hold everything up even better we did put some self-tapping screws here
in the very peak of the ceiling where those two pieces of insulation meet there can be a lot of
stress and weight bearing down on that trying to hold everything up so i went ahead and put in some
self-tapping screws that just help with that and then going down along the walls i did go ahead and
put in some staples every four feet or so going down that wall and that's just going to help hold
it against those wood spacers and prevent it from separating from the wall over time if that double
side tape starts to give way you can tell i also went ahead and put up some flags this is the
patriot diy channel after all so i went ahead and got that knocked out while i had the scaffolding
but yeah i think it turned out really good all right guys that's it for this video i hope this
video helped you out if you're insulating a metal building if you have any questions or anything
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