[Greenbuilding] best practice

Jason Holstine jason at amicusgreen.com
Wed Mar 16 21:49:00 CDT 2016


An 1883 house getting styrofoamed makes me twitch.


On 3/16/16 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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