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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
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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
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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
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