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Existing Homes - Basement Insulation

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• Basement Insulation
  Create a comfortable basement environment that is free of moisture problems and easy to condition
  Source: DOE Building Technologies Program
• Insulate Foundations & FLoors
  Source: Southface Institute

• Renovating Your Basement for Moisture Control and to Improve Energy Efficiency
  October 2003. Nathan Yost. Heat loss through uninsulated basement walls can account for up to one third of the heat loss from an average home. Installing insulation on basement walls is often inexpensive, easy to accomplish and frequently combined with finishing the basement.
  Source: Building Science Corporation

• Basement Insulation Systems
  July 2002, Nathan Yost, M.D. and Joseph Lstiburek, Ph.D., P.E. The experience of Building Science Corporation with the two most common ways to insulate the interior of a basement have been bad. Continued use of these approaches by the home building industry will likely lead to a disaster of unprecedented proportions and may result in the construction of energy efficient homes being set back a generation. Find out the right way to insulate a basement to avoid this potential disaster.
  Source: Building Science Corporation