Insulation

[thebuilderDB56]

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[GhostAccord]

This has nothing to do with Accord tech or performance, it doesn't even have anything to do with cars at all.

Kind of seems like a troll or spam type thread....lol


I'll humor you,
This product that you have posted that you are looking at for upgrading your current house. Not going to be very cost effective. You may want to look into something else. IIRC these ICF are really for new construction. Maybe an Icynene spray foam insulation or maybe even blowing in a couple more inches of insulation into your attic would be more cost effective on an older home.

Unless you are looking to build a new foundation the ICF aren't what your looking for.

[batever]

There are a number of options--the best for an existing wall would be to blow in insulation , then tyvek wrap the whole house to stop air infiltration, then reside.

With fiberglass insulation, fitting the insulation exactly to the panels is crucial. AND fiberglass does not stop airflow AT ALL so if the building skin isn't properly air sealed fiberglass alone won't keep heat in (because air can easily move through fiberglass--in fact, fiberglass is often used as an air filter for this reason).

If you want to go whole hog, on older houses like Victorians and other 100 year old + houses, people doing a deep energy retrofit have taken the approach of covering the whole exterior of the house with, say, 2 x 6 (making 6 inch deep "insulation bays" on the outside of the house) and insulating the whole outside of the house with spray foam or panel foam, wrapping it when done, then siding. This has the benefit that you can massively increase the depth of total insulation on the dwelling.