Home improvement: Three tips to insulate a basement quickly, safely, and more easily.
Insulation isn’t just about staying warm, it’s about fire and building code, too. Important stuff. And doing it right because, why wouldn’t you? Check out this video and blog below.
Tip #1
Tables. They make life easier.
My table is site-built and simple. Just a scrap sheet of OSB with some channels cut in it. Two by fours underneath keep it solid. You can use sawhorses. I happened to use the Centipede work table this time. The channels enable me to cut—saw really—insulation without resistance.
Using a table paid for itself in about an hour.
Tip #2
Fire. Insulation—stone wool, like the Roxul insulation here—is for more than thermal. Used properly, it can slow or stop fire. It’s building code too. When I insulate a basement I add vertical fireblocking behind a wall stud every 10-feet of wall. Fixing the house and making upgrades is about building safely as well as quickly and making things look nice.
Tip #3
Work neat. DIY, home improvement and remodeling are difficult enough with creating your own hazards. I like to keep insulation cut-offs and scraps manageable and easily cleaned up; hurling them all higgedly-piggeldy solves zero problems. Unfurling one of the plastic wrappers (note how I cut it open at the beginning of the video) serves as a drop zone I can easily bundle, tie and throw away.
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