Already two minutes in the video and you've done an excellent explaining the r value and thickness. Most people skip over the "basic" stuff but it's not basic if it's your first time. Thanks dude!
I do not own a home neither make any kind of Howe improvement work, I just like this type of videos. Some how it relaxes me seeing how it all fits well.
Update: It came out great! Emphasis on having a good knife (Long enough to cut through the insulation, not a box cutter) and put a piece of cardboard below where you'll be cutting your insulation so you dont scratch the floor. Thank you again!
Excellent video! After 5min I couldn't wait to subscribe. I especially like the detailed, step-by-step instructions, pro-tips, and no over the top presentation style.
I really like how you do your videos. you do a very good job at explaining and showing how to do stuff (in this case put up insulation). keep up the great work!
Great video Shannon...Not too many builders want to handle this type of insulation to do a video. Thank you for sharing your talent and taking the time to show those interested how to properly insulate using the fiberglass pink..I'm scratching just watching you. Dber
I just did this in a very large space with about a minute's worth of guiding first. Now I watch your video! One thing, those extra pieces are handy to tuck into unintended gaps. I was using Roxul.
Your vids have been very helpful to me in the addition I am building. Couldn't get a contractor, all busy, so have to do it myself. So using your vids along with some advice from carpenters I am plugging along fine. Thanks
Normally I like to leave 1" to 1/2" because the basement concrete walls may not be plumb or straight . So by leaving some room you have some space for differences.
Shannon, I've been putting up some rock wool and I watched a RUclips video where the guy had a long bread knife-looking knife to cut the rock wool. I don't have that long knife but I have an electric bread knife that I bought at Salvation Army to cut foam for a reupholster job I was doing. I used that knife and it worked so well. I could easily cut a half-inch thickness and it was fast. I am sure you know this but I wanted to tell you how good an old bread knife is for cutting rock wool insulation in case you've never tried it.
Okay, I have something else to tell you that I just discovered. I am pulling out an old cast iron toilet flange and I followed some instructions I've seen on YT about drilling a series of holes in the lead around the circumference of the ID of the flange and OD of the stack. The idea is to use a punch to force out the lead. I was having trouble with that method so I got a 2.5 inch wood screw and drove it in into the lead until about 1/4 inch was sticking above the flange. Then, I used a claw hammer to pry the lead out - in chunks about 2 to 2.5 inches long. I was finished in about 2 minutes. @@HouseImprovements
Thank you for posting your videos, they are really informative and give me confidence I will do a proper job installing a vapour barrier and insulating my apartment. Many thanks for your time.
You could use electrical vapour boxes for speaker locations or squares of poly behind and around the speakers to create your own pockets and seal it to the main vapour barrier.
Thank you for this video. I am building the external walls and windows around my porch. Question: do I need to install the vapor barrier above the fiberglass insulation? This porch will have the door and there is another door to the house. This porch will not be heated and the external walls will be made from the OSB and siding and the internal walls from the plywood.
good video, but I can't say that I 100% agree with you corner tutorial near the end... only because most DIY people would frame a corner like that, long before ever even thinking about insulating... and would be forced to remove a stud in order to insulate. a better corner framing method (L corner) would allow for full access for insulation at a later time.
Thank you so much for this great video. I learned a lot from your channel. In my basement, the builder covered walls with a thick blanket of Batt fiber glass and vapor barrier. Would you recommend that I should remove it and start with the foam and proceed as you showed in this video ? My home was built 7 years ago Thanks again
I have the same situation and cant find a proper answer. THe builder istalled the yellow batt insulation throughout the basement walls with a clear vapor barrier plastic over it. Not sure if I need to remove and frame walls and then put newer insulation and just dry wall over it without the plastic barrier? what did you do?
would be interested to see you do something on a bonus room. Have a knee wall and ceiling to insulate in finish out in our house. I have installed batt insulation before but wondering if i need something different for the ceilings and some say do an air gap others say you dont' need one.
Hi Shannon, great videos I learned so many tricks from your videos. Thank you. I am replacing one wall in my basement because of water damage through the window. Window is now replaced. The house is old and they did not use rigid foam back then. Just fiberglass and vapor barrier. I am in Ottawa Canada, so it is cold here and insulation is important. Is there a point for me to install rigid foam between the concrete and the fiberglass. Remember I am replacing only one wall of a room. If I use rigid foam for this wall it will be the only place in whole basement. Adjacent rooms even adjacent wall does not have rigid foam. Should I bother putting the rigid foam?
I have an unfinished garage with stucco exterior walls. I want to insulate it but I'm not sure which type to use? The stucco also has this paper on it.
Shannon, i really like that long bladed knife you have that cuts that insulation like butter! we have to do a whole house! What knife is it and where can we get a couple? Thanks! Love your video's.!
I put batt with a paper barrier in my shed and galvanized corrugated tin on the in side so the edges are not completely sealed I just didn't know if that would let to much fibers in the air opening and closing the door?
Making insulating pole will make the job 10 times easier. And measuring you can insert the fiberglass and see if you need to cut it or not along the studs by following the fiberglass in half and then cut along the studs the width that you need by eyeballing it which is effective and 10 times faster
Thanks... I have a question. What you explained at the end with the mock corner and insulating that corner, how would you insulate the corner if it was already built. I have a space about ¾" that is a difficult spot. How would you do it? I dont want to spray because if I dont get it all then itll be a problem later......
Hi. So I've seen your video's of insulating a basement. My question is. If I use the 1inch ridgide foam board do I have to frame after and just use the foam board to help keep the basement warm?
You really should and also rigid foam should not be left exposed, it needs to be covered by at least 1/2" drywall to protect it from fire since it gives off a toxic smoke when burned.
does the framing have to be the normal 2 X 4 or to keep the space i have can i use furring strtps?? and make like a grid system and the apply drywall?@@HouseImprovements
I just joined your website but couldn't find my topic when I did a search. Question...I bought an old home in northern ontario where it gets damned cold! ...-40 in jan/february...I have a cantilevered mudroom on the front of the house with asbestos insulation packed into the rough cut 2x4 outside walls and shiplap 1x6 boards on the inside walls. The problem is the floor...no insulation! The floor is about 2 1/2" below the doorstep. The floor joists are rough cut 2x8s. I can crawl under and insulate/vbarrier the exposed underside or do what I did to my back mudroom...rip 2x4s 1 1/2" , nail them down at 16" centers, insulate with roxul and vbarrier, then put 1/2" plywood and laminate flooring down. It works and looks great but not much r-value! Should I crawl under😠 and insulate the bottom side? I'll get the r-value but what a pain in the ass!😠😠😠 Thx
Awesome vid! Thanks Shannon. I'm working on a basement and trying to figure out if I should add more insulation where my framing studs sit 3-4 inches from the wall (the walls aren't very straight) or just leave an air pocket between the wall and the insulation. No idea if there's ever been water/moisture issues in the house, and I can't decide whether the air pocket would help mold grow, or eliminate it because there's a pocket to dry the moisture from the walls. Any ideas?
Hey Shannon what if I'm doing my attic with a pitched roof? Will the Batt stay in just with a tight fit or will I need some kind of glue or something? Thanks for all your videos they really help us!
They should stay in with friction until the poly is added. If you get the odd one that does not wanna stay just add a couple framing nails in side of joist so the insulation sits down on them to help hold it up.
Great demonstration! Thanks for that. Is that plastic barrier really necessary depending on geographic location? I’m in lower Texas where it’s humid often. Although my house that was built in 1990 has it, I’ve heard arguments for not putting it in in my environment. The claim is that condensate will form when warm meets cold, and will drip, saturate your framing and rot the wood over time. I’m redoing my kitchen and replacing the insulation and sheet rock and debating the safest way to go.
I do not think you would actually have an interior vapour barrier because of your climate. In NorthAmerica it would mainly be the colder states and Canada
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The exacto knife bag slice move at 4:30, to a chef's kiss of expansion to two even piles that " I'll just move over here". Haha. Well done sir.
Already two minutes in the video and you've done an excellent explaining the r value and thickness. Most people skip over the "basic" stuff but it's not basic if it's your first time.
Thanks dude!
I do not own a home neither make any kind of Howe improvement work, I just like this type of videos. Some how it relaxes me seeing how it all fits well.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really like the way you only concentrate on the job,,, some people trying to be funny or add unrelated things in their videos,,,,
I've always wondered how to handle the corners, especially in the basement insulation process. Thanks for the extra explanation here.
Good job i volunteered myself for a job like this never having done it before and now I feel confident I’ll do well
Update: It came out great! Emphasis on having a good knife (Long enough to cut through the insulation, not a box cutter) and put a piece of cardboard below where you'll be cutting your insulation so you dont scratch the floor. Thank you again!
Excellent video! After 5min I couldn't wait to subscribe.
I especially like the detailed, step-by-step instructions, pro-tips, and no over the top presentation style.
Awesome, thank you!
The mock-up for the corner insulation problem was VERY clear. Thanks.
I really like how you do your videos. you do a very good job at explaining and showing how to do stuff (in this case put up insulation). keep up the great work!
+TheSlenderSpartan Glad you like them, be sure to subscribe and thumbs up the vids. We have LOTS more in the pipeline.
Great video Shannon...Not too many builders want to handle this type of insulation to do a video. Thank you for sharing your talent and taking the time to show those interested how to properly insulate using the fiberglass pink..I'm scratching just watching you. Dber
Great video... Whenever I do projects I always search for Shannon's house improvement videos... they are the best!
Glad you like them!
This was a good vid. Not too short, not too long. Perfect.
glad to hear
I just did this in a very large space with about a minute's worth of guiding first. Now I watch your video! One thing, those extra pieces are handy to tuck into unintended gaps. I was using Roxul.
I will be installing insulation & drywall for the first time, this video and the other related videos have been really helpful; thank you.
You go there and wish you the best of luck. Better you than someone else who just may do a half ass job.
Excellent instructions. i am watching right now while insulating my internal kitchen walls, thank you!
I'm always grateful for these thorough videos. You give all the tips and facts that I'm usually asking myself. Please keep these videos coming.
Great video! Thank you. I now feel comfortable to do my small project.
Your vids have been very helpful to me in the addition I am building. Couldn't get a contractor, all busy, so have to do it myself. So using your vids along with some advice from carpenters I am plugging along fine. Thanks
Great tutorial Shannon ver y Wellington explained very easy to follow Thank you!
thank you
Thanks!
Do i need 1 inch gap between my framing and the rigid insulation for air circulation? Or the frame is touching the foam? Thank you
Normally I like to leave 1" to 1/2" because the basement concrete walls may not be plumb or straight . So by leaving some room you have some space for differences.
@@HouseImprovements thanks you're the best!
Thank you so much for the thorough explanation! Love your channel.
You are so welcome!
thanks so much for your videos bc I just bought a foreclosure and it seems as if I will have to do most of the work myself
You are the bomb!!! Very easy to understand!
Thankyou! Good teacher.
Shannon, I've been putting up some rock wool and I watched a RUclips video where the guy had a long bread knife-looking knife to cut the rock wool. I don't have that long knife but I have an electric bread knife that I bought at Salvation Army to cut foam for a reupholster job I was doing. I used that knife and it worked so well. I could easily cut a half-inch thickness and it was fast. I am sure you know this but I wanted to tell you how good an old bread knife is for cutting rock wool insulation in case you've never tried it.
I have heard of that working well.
Okay, I have something else to tell you that I just discovered. I am pulling out an old cast iron toilet flange and I followed some instructions I've seen on YT about drilling a series of holes in the lead around the circumference of the ID of the flange and OD of the stack. The idea is to use a punch to force out the lead. I was having trouble with that method so I got a 2.5 inch wood screw and drove it in into the lead until about 1/4 inch was sticking above the flange. Then, I used a claw hammer to pry the lead out - in chunks about 2 to 2.5 inches long. I was finished in about 2 minutes. @@HouseImprovements
Well done shannon. You do great work! glad to see your back with videos.
You are a real artist, love your video. You explain things clearly! Thanks
Really good information Shannon! Thanks for the video.
Great video! Thanks! You are very clear, easy to understand, very knowledgeable, good videographer too.
Thank you for posting your videos, they are really informative and give me confidence I will do a proper job installing a vapour barrier and insulating my apartment. Many thanks for your time.
Good luck!
You do a fantastic job with all your vids!
Ty for putting in all the extra work making them
Great video! Clear instructions and touches on obstacles in walls I need to insulate. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
One more please… Who makes the knife you were using? Thanks in advance!
Thanks for that corner mock up. I'm doing that in the morning.
As always my friend, great video and tutorial. I thank you for your help with all of this vídeos. God bless you and your family and business.
Glad to help
Great video! Thank you! I wanna install inwall speaker on my basement. how would I do the insulation and the vapor barrier around it?
You could use electrical vapour boxes for speaker locations or squares of poly behind and around the speakers to create your own pockets and seal it to the main vapour barrier.
I like how you explained that tight corner using a smaller model.
Excellent presentation! Thanks for all the great tips.
Thank you very much for your tutorials. Your videos always provide inspiration for my journey to becoming a practitioner. :D
Very good Sir thanks and funny at the end lol let’s start over 😂
HUGE help on a upcoming diy project, much thx.
great!
Thank you for detailed explanation. Appreciate the great work!
nice video, do you have a follow up on putting up the plastic ?
This guy is the best. The end blooper was so Canadian I had to laugh.
Great video without over explaining
He actually touch it without gloves.
Thank you for this video. I am building the external walls and windows around my porch. Question: do I need to install the vapor barrier above the fiberglass insulation? This porch will have the door and there is another door to the house. This porch will not be heated and the external walls will be made from the OSB and siding and the internal walls from the plywood.
I would , it will stop drafts if sealed properly .
good video, but I can't say that I 100% agree with you corner tutorial near the end... only because most DIY people would frame a corner like that, long before ever even thinking about insulating... and would be forced to remove a stud in order to insulate. a better corner framing method (L corner) would allow for full access for insulation at a later time.
Or maybe use spray foam in that one cavity?
Awesome job on the instructions, very clean job.
Thank you so much for this great video. I learned a lot from your channel.
In my basement, the builder covered walls with a thick blanket of Batt fiber glass and vapor barrier. Would you recommend that I should remove it and start with the foam and proceed as you showed in this video ? My home was built 7 years ago
Thanks again
I have the same situation and cant find a proper answer. THe builder istalled the yellow batt insulation throughout the basement walls with a clear vapor barrier plastic over it. Not sure if I need to remove and frame walls and then put newer insulation and just dry wall over it without the plastic barrier? what did you do?
Super helpful thanks. I’m about to insulate my tiny cabin.
Super helpful. Thank you!
Excellent explanation, thank you
would be interested to see you do something on a bonus room. Have a knee wall and ceiling to insulate in finish out in our house. I have installed batt insulation before but wondering if i need something different for the ceilings and some say do an air gap others say you dont' need one.
+Zach Scott use my forum for questions please.
I insulate the outside corners just before I sheet the outside. Also some walls will get insulated just before sheeting.
Well done Sir. Thank you
thanks for the blooper! great video.👍
You rock! Thanks for the excellent videos.
Great video. But I'm interested in the plastic after the insulation. What is it called? How to you install it?
ruclips.net/video/7cz4y1U7bi0/видео.html
Hi Shannon, great videos I learned so many tricks from your videos. Thank you.
I am replacing one wall in my basement because of water damage through the window. Window is now replaced. The house is old and they did not use rigid foam back then. Just fiberglass and vapor barrier. I am in Ottawa Canada, so it is cold here and insulation is important.
Is there a point for me to install rigid foam between the concrete and the fiberglass. Remember I am replacing only one wall of a room. If I use rigid foam for this wall it will be the only place in whole basement. Adjacent rooms even adjacent wall does not have rigid foam. Should I bother putting the rigid foam?
I also like to use a putty knife to fluff the batts and get them nice and smooth in the wall cavity
Where do you get the outlet vapor barriers. I've never been able to find them. Great video as always!
locally here our lumber stores and big box stores have them in the electrical supplies area.
Thanks a million! Very informative and helpful. Thanks for sharing
Great video!!
Great instructional video. Thanks.
thank you! and Very nice video! now I feel %95 confident I can do it myself. ha! ;-D
Awesome, good luck!
I have an unfinished garage with stucco exterior walls. I want to insulate it but I'm not sure which type to use? The stucco also has this paper on it.
Great video, thanks.
You bet
Hi Shannon, Question, if you were RE-insulating, how would you handle that corner?
Shannon, i really like that long bladed knife you have that cuts that insulation like butter! we have to do a whole house! What knife is it and where can we get a couple?
Thanks! Love your video's.!
I put batt with a paper barrier in my shed and galvanized corrugated tin on the in side so the edges are not completely sealed I just didn't know if that would let to much fibers in the air opening and closing the door?
Thanks Shannon, big help. Thumbs up...
No obnoxious bullshit just the info I needed. thanks
Is carpentry hard, and how can I become a carpenter, because I like how knowledgeable you are?
There are many trade schools you can enrol in.
could you show how to do attic asbesto decontamination
well worth watching!
Making insulating pole will make the job 10 times easier. And measuring you can insert the fiberglass and see if you need to cut it or not along the studs by following the fiberglass in half and then cut along the studs the width that you need by eyeballing it which is effective and 10 times faster
Awesome video
Can you put foam board insulation over the batts? Would that give more efficiently or would that be a waste of time?
Put foam board against the concrete first then frame the walls and insulate with batts if you want to do it, not over the stud wall
Thank you 🙏 Gad bless you.
Do you need to use a staple gun or something to secure the insulation in place?
Enjoyed the blooper
Nice work! I'd hire you.
God bless you 💕🌹
Thanks...
I have a question. What you explained at the end with the mock corner and insulating that corner, how would you insulate the corner if it was already built. I have a space about ¾" that is a difficult spot. How would you do it? I dont want to spray because if I dont get it all then itll be a problem later......
Cut one stud out and insulate then re install.
Hi. So I've seen your video's of insulating a basement. My question is. If I use the 1inch ridgide foam board do I have to frame after and just use the foam board to help keep the basement warm?
You really should and also rigid foam should not be left exposed, it needs to be covered by at least 1/2" drywall to protect it from fire since it gives off a toxic smoke when burned.
does the framing have to be the normal 2 X 4 or to keep the space i have can i use furring strtps?? and make like a grid system and the apply drywall?@@HouseImprovements
Hey Shannon! Can you use rigid foam and pink batt insulation without the poly vapor barrier or is it necessary for this particular system to work?
I keep finding videos where some use poly before they drywall and some do not
*Very informative* 😀👍
I just joined your website but couldn't find my topic when I did a search. Question...I bought an old home in northern ontario where it gets damned cold! ...-40 in jan/february...I have a cantilevered mudroom on the front of the house with asbestos insulation packed into the rough cut 2x4 outside walls and shiplap 1x6 boards on the inside walls. The problem is the floor...no insulation! The floor is about 2 1/2" below the doorstep. The floor joists are rough cut 2x8s. I can crawl under and insulate/vbarrier the exposed underside or do what I did to my back mudroom...rip 2x4s
1 1/2" , nail them down at 16" centers, insulate with roxul and vbarrier, then put 1/2" plywood and laminate flooring down. It works and looks great but not much r-value! Should I crawl under😠 and insulate the bottom side? I'll get the r-value but what a pain in the ass!😠😠😠 Thx
What type of insulation should I use for central Florida wood shed? And if which side faces wall? Thanks
Nice video Shannon. Surprised that beam is not nailed to a king stud without any doublers to support it, is there lolly poles supporting that beam?...
+woodmasterguy It sits in a beam pocket on the concrete basement wall that you can not see.
Great video!
Shannon, you make Great videos!
Thank you, very clear and lightening :)
Awesome vid! Thanks Shannon.
I'm working on a basement and trying to figure out if I should add more insulation where my framing studs sit 3-4 inches from the wall (the walls aren't very straight) or just leave an air pocket between the wall and the insulation. No idea if there's ever been water/moisture issues in the house, and I can't decide whether the air pocket would help mold grow, or eliminate it because there's a pocket to dry the moisture from the walls. Any ideas?
Not an issue ,but you could install R20 insulation instead of R10 since you have the space
Me encantan estos videos semefacilita vivircomodo haciendo lo que me gusta muchas gracias por su gran hayuda
great video. Why do you have loops of wire around that electrical outlet? sorry it's off topic of your video I am just curious, keep up the good work.
+Kasey Miller HEHE watch my electrical rough in videos to see.
Every justidiction is different. Where I live, wires need to be tight and stapled within 6".....
SHANNON, YOU MAKE ME WANT TO BATT INSULATE EVERYTHING!!!!!
JACK ATTACK yeah yeah batts
Hey Shannon what if I'm doing my attic with a pitched roof? Will the Batt stay in just with a tight fit or will I need some kind of glue or something? Thanks for all your videos they really help us!
They should stay in with friction until the poly is added. If you get the odd one that does not wanna stay just add a couple framing nails in side of joist so the insulation sits down on them to help hold it up.
@@HouseImprovements THANK YOU!!!! : )
Great demonstration! Thanks for that. Is that plastic barrier really necessary depending on geographic location? I’m in lower Texas where it’s humid often. Although my house that was built in 1990 has it, I’ve heard arguments for not putting it in in my environment. The claim is that condensate will form when warm meets cold, and will drip, saturate your framing and rot the wood over time. I’m redoing my kitchen and replacing the insulation and sheet rock and debating the safest way to go.
I do not think you would actually have an interior vapour barrier because of your climate. In NorthAmerica it would mainly be the colder states and Canada
@@HouseImprovements, Wow! Record time reply! Absolutely excellent channel! Thanks for that info!
I cut using 7" kitchen knife. Works great for cutting thicker
Amazing video tutorial