When insulating walls, it is typically the exterior walls that are filled with insulation. This helps improve energy efficiency and keeps in the heat in cold climates and the inside of a home ...

Knowing I would not be finishing the basement for quite some time and wanting to conserve energy, I wrapped the whole house on the outside with 1.5-inch blue Styrofoam insulation for an R7.5 value ...

I’d recommend some kind of spray foam insulation between the studs, extending about 12” below the current ground level. You’re right to leave the bottom part of the walls uninsulated.

we’re renovating a room in the rear of our house (south facing) and redoing all the walls, windows, ceiling etc. Just wondering about what we should do to insulate between the new sheetrocked wall and ...