"Exterior insulation"

Exterior insulation / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Insulation and soundproofing

How much insulation is too much in attics and walls?

...insulation is too much in an attic? What does ‘diminishing returns’ for insulation mean? It's as simple as this - adding one inch of insulation to a wall that has only one inch of insulation is certainly well worth the investment, in any climate. Adding one inch of insulation to a wall that has 5 inches of insulation...

Concept and design

Building science for LEED v4 wall design made easy - video

...exterior insulation: It would have been quicker for us to attach the entire mass of exterior insulation with longer screws and only one course of strapping, but using THERM software, our engineer determined that the cold transmitted through the metal screws would have reduced the effective R-value of the exterior insul...