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Addressing Your Basement’s Insulation

When you consider different home improvement projects that will give you some of the biggest impacts around your home, new insulation will always be towards the top of the list. This is because it has such an important job in temperature control and efficiency throughout your entire home.

While you probably have insulation behind your walls and in your attic, not as many people have a properly insulated basement. We explain the importance of insulating your basement below, so read on to learn more!

Why Insulating a Basement Is Important

If your basement is unfinished, chances are it is a chilly, damp space that is home to your Christmas decorations and boxes of old clothes. It is probably also a really inefficient part of your home!

As air enters into your home, it flows through your house based on current temperatures and pressure changes. In the winter, cold air from outside moves into the basement and then travels upward. In the summer, cool air is pushed to the bottom of your home while the hot air stays in your living spaces.

This is called the stack effect, or chimney effect, and it can make your entire home uncomfortable! But by adding insulation to the walls and ceiling of your basement, you can help control this air flow and ensure that the air that is circulating is doing so as efficiently as possible.

Where to Insulate in Your Basement

Our Koala crew recommends insulation in your ceiling, walls and crawl space. Having insulation in your basement ceiling helps slow down the heat transfer process and it can actually warm up your cold lower level floors!

Adding insulation to your walls also helps this process and can prevent your comfortable air from moving too quickly throughout your home.

In addition, your crawl space might be a really inefficient part of your home. Regardless of whether your crawl space is partially finished or has a dirt floor, it can be the source of inefficient heat transfer and moisture issues. Insulating this area helps regulate the temperature of the rooms above it.

We can insulate your basement for you quickly and efficiently. Contact us at Koala Insulation of Chattanooga.