Add insulation to existing walls

Our Best Tips for Insulating Exterior walls during renovations - It's Essential not to add an additional vapor barrier and trap moisture inside walls. Read more here for help choosing the right type of insulation and how to fix it easily.

Learn how to add insulation to walls that have drywall on them. Find out your options for adding insulation to closed walls.

Regretting the decision of not insulating your home enough? Yielding high energy bills? Feeling too cold or too humid inside your house?

Our house is about 60 years old. Back then, individuals did not really insulate their home. That was because oil was plentiful and cheap and insulating materials were costly, poorly fabricated and uncommon. People were not concerned about insulation till the energy crisis of the 1970's, when the price for gas increased dramatically. That is why today we are very conscientious about saving energy and insulating our homes. The expense to heat a home is huge, and every penny we spend on the…

Foam board insulation is easy to use and is a great DIY way to add some insulation. It comes in standard sheets and in many thicknesses.

Retrofit your home to stay warm in winter and keep cool in the summer Even the nicest of living spaces can be a little unpleasant if your walls aren't insulated enough. But what can you do if your home is already finished and the drywall...

It appears we’ve reached the stage of this rebuild in which one big project will be completed every week. It’s Week Four of the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge™ and today, I’m showing you how we are sealing our historic home from the inside to prevent moisture and weather intrusion and provide a sturdy reinforcement to our old wood siding. Not all progress is pretty but this is my favorite new feature of our house so far! …

Here are the steps for retrofitting wall insulation batts in your existing home. Be mindful that homes of a certain age are likely to have hazardous materials in their make up that could be released when modifying or removing them.

If your home’s walls are not insulated, don’t worry. You can still put insulation inside existing walls if you know what to use.

Want to avoid the mess but get the benefits of exterior wall insulation? Injection foam insulation can be installed without removing the drywall by...