[Greenbuilding] best practice

[Clarke Olsen]

Sounds like the best to me - your house will never by tight on the outside, it probably does't have sheathing.
Downside is, it may not hold paint as long, once the siding's backed-up by foam.
Clarke Olsen
clarkeolsendesign.com
373 route 203
Spencertown, NY 12165 
USA
518-392-4640
colsen at taconic.net




On Mar 16, 2016, at 9:42 PM, Sacie Lambertson <sacie.lambertson at gmail.com> wrote:

> A good guy and relatively young architect (in his 40s, 'young' by my standards), tells me it is not worth taking off the siding of an old 1883 house to add insulation and an air space to the outside.  He says the added expense is not worth the additional insulation. That the extra R-value above R 23 in walls is thermodynamically not money well spent as long as the house is very tightly constructed in the retro-fit.
> 
> The siding is original and in very good shape.  The interior has full dimensioned 2x4 walls.  The rooms are too small for me to want to build a double wall on the interior.
> 
> What he suggests I do is simply used closed cell foam between the wall framing.
> 
> I would appreciate your comments please.
> 
> Sacie
> 
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