Q. My steel garage door isn’t insulated. Is there any reason I can’t put blue board or Styrofoam on it using either silicone or an adhesive especially for this? Then I want to prime and… ...

Battic Door also offers a cardboard box type cover that fits over the fan housing in the attic. With the cover in place insulation can be laid over the top of the box, restoring the integrity of ...

For example, if your builder started with a 31/2-inch fiberglass batt that had an R-11 insulation value at full thickness but had to compress it to 2 inches to fill a wall space, the result is ...

You should lay an appropriate (usually R-30) insulation on the attic floor, but avoid tucking it down into the area where the roof rafters meet the top of exterior walls and joist.

Q: I am building a new home with 2-by-6 exterior walls. Beams have to be installed over the top of all windows and doors. What is a good way to insulate these, as the solid wood creating the beam ...

Ross insulates an attic; Richard talks irrigation repairs; Mark paves a parking spot. Ross Trethewey helps a homeowner dealing with ice dams decide whether to insulate from his attic roof rafters ...