@djricenitrotank -- I don't think pressure treated is appropriate for indoor use... there's toxic chemicals in that stuff! Maybe that 'blue wood' would be OK, but I don't believe that's rot resistant, only for mold prevention?
@HomeEnergyNow Damn, are you still ranting about this subject?!! I let you have the last word, yet you still have to reply with BS!! Get a life dude!! BTW, loosefills in walls settle over time. Get an IR camera and look around at some walls filled with loosefill. It DOES NOT go to the top anymore. May be good for open attic where you can pile it high. Spray foam has more R Value per inch. Cellulose loose is 3.2 - 3.8 per inch. Closed cell spray is 6 - 7.
@drsmith33 How exactly is spray foam the best way to go? Loosefill goes to R-60, spray foam barely gets past half of that. Loosefills have been around for over half a century and have been proven, the old spray foams have deteriorated or fallen off, so the foam companies "claim to have solved these problems". Guess we will see huh? Every wall has 2 air barriers so I dont want to hear any more BS about how foam seals and insulates, I have sealed air barriers I just need an insulation foam = WORST
@1asadoc1 You will get "building science Corporations" opinion of finishing a basement. There is no "building science" that everybody agrees on, party because the people at building science Corporation are idiots and nobody uses their techniques except lost fools on the internet!
I really have to disagree with this insulation method and for a moisture prone area, why not use pressure treated subfloor? If groundwater penetrates the floor or walls, you'll end up ripping ALL of it out in 10 years. Pipe bursts in the basement?...adios floor down the the concrete and 1 foot above water line on walls. Water heater goes?...same issue. Your $10,000 insulation job just wiped out square footage and headroom too. To each his own I guess.
@djricenitrotank -- I don't think pressure treated is appropriate for indoor use... there's toxic chemicals in that stuff! Maybe that 'blue wood' would be OK, but I don't believe that's rot resistant, only for mold prevention?
jeffpicks 5 days ago
@HomeEnergyNow Damn, are you still ranting about this subject?!! I let you have the last word, yet you still have to reply with BS!! Get a life dude!! BTW, loosefills in walls settle over time. Get an IR camera and look around at some walls filled with loosefill. It DOES NOT go to the top anymore. May be good for open attic where you can pile it high. Spray foam has more R Value per inch. Cellulose loose is 3.2 - 3.8 per inch. Closed cell spray is 6 - 7.
drsmith33 2 weeks ago
@drsmith33 How exactly is spray foam the best way to go? Loosefill goes to R-60, spray foam barely gets past half of that. Loosefills have been around for over half a century and have been proven, the old spray foams have deteriorated or fallen off, so the foam companies "claim to have solved these problems". Guess we will see huh? Every wall has 2 air barriers so I dont want to hear any more BS about how foam seals and insulates, I have sealed air barriers I just need an insulation foam = WORST
HomeEnergyNow 3 weeks ago
@1asadoc1 You will get "building science Corporations" opinion of finishing a basement. There is no "building science" that everybody agrees on, party because the people at building science Corporation are idiots and nobody uses their techniques except lost fools on the internet!
HomeEnergyNow 3 weeks ago
@HomeEnergyNow spoken like a typical know-it-all american asshole
theoriginalshankster 3 weeks ago
@alibahry Season 5 - Episode EP5057: Bargain Basement
theoriginalshankster 3 weeks ago
just have a shit load of towel raidiators around the room
MrBurnTec 3 weeks ago
what if you have drains in the floor?
dkpai05 1 month ago
@HomeEnergyNow oh my, what a big brain you have there.
humanity6fl9 1 month ago
I really have to disagree with this insulation method and for a moisture prone area, why not use pressure treated subfloor? If groundwater penetrates the floor or walls, you'll end up ripping ALL of it out in 10 years. Pipe bursts in the basement?...adios floor down the the concrete and 1 foot above water line on walls. Water heater goes?...same issue. Your $10,000 insulation job just wiped out square footage and headroom too. To each his own I guess.
djricenitrotank 1 month ago