Wood Chips Attic Insulation

Describing how to do wood chip natural building insulation.

Wood chips attic insulation. Remove the wood chips and air seal. Repair wood using automotive body putty duration. Then blow something in cellulose or fiberglass your choice. Ali mae 5 896 views.

But that is a lot of work and cost. For more details check out my table of insulating materials so if you remove the wood and replace it with ordinary fibreglass you will more than double the insulation in the walls. Wood chip or sawdust insulation r 1. If you are heating a home with wood chips in the attic then you are wasting heat and money.

Describing how to do wood chip natural building insulation. Insulation removal can be difficult and tedious especially if you don t have the right equipment. If you re never going to be up there fiberglass is fine. Attic insulation can sometimes be a hindrance to renovations.

I put cellulose in my attic because i built an attic storage platform. Cellulose has an r value of 3 2 per inch of depth while fiberglass ranges from an r value of 2 to 2 5 per inch of depth. Different types of insulation have different r values explains russ lewis of green attics in fort worth texas. Attic insulation is available in a variety of materials including fiberglass mineral rock wool cellulose spray foam polystyrene and more.

Hugh cairns some people may be tempted to leave the wood chips and insulate over the top of them but that can result in future complications. Wood chip natural insulation duration. You ll feel warmer in the house air sealing with no insulation than you do now with insulation. Blown in fiberglass insulation r 3.

Alternative method to insulate the attic duration. Removing attic wood chip insulation photo. Wood fiber insulation and cellulose insulation are made from the same raw material but cellulose is newspaper whereas wood fiber comes from softwood chips. Attic insulation done wrong and how to do it right.

Wood chips do insulate but only at about r 1 4 per inch. Fibreglass is 3 5 per inch and extruded foam insulation 5 0 per inch. Covering wood chip. To improve the comfort of the home pictured above one solution is to remove the wood chip insulation and re insulate the entire attic cavity with blown in fibreglass insulation.