Fuel and heating bills come wintertime are more than high enough in these times of high energy and fuel costs. Anything that you as a home owner or resident can do to insulate your home or living quarters can only is to your benefit – either as a cost saving measure or for the comfort or yourself and family members. One often forgotten or ignored area to save lost heat and heating costs is by insulating floor, floor areas and floorboards. Few think of it – yet most may remark that an uncovered, non – insulated bare floor can be downright chilly if you walk across it with bare or stocking feet come one chilly morning.

Yet a non-insulated floor or floor section can waste a surprisingly large amount of heat and increase fuel and furnace heating costs greatly. This can occur both with solid variety and suspended wood and wooden floors.

With suspended timber floors insulation can be fixed between the joists that are after lifting up the floor boards. One method well recommended by experienced heating and insulation home contractors is to cut strips of rigid expanded polystyrene, such as you might find and purchase at a heating and furnace supply store or large hardware big box stores , and lay to rest these polystyrene strips on nails driven into the sides of the joists and joist structures.

Another option in dealing with suspended timber type flooring is to suspend lengths of insulation blanket material between them, supported on garden netting stapled to the joists. The insulation is then covered with a standard high quality polyethylene type vapor barrier.

However with direct to ground concrete type floors and flooring (slab on grade), in the construction and heating trades construction affiliated trades the most oft used and popular method and methods of insulation involves lining the floor or flooring with standard polyethylene sheeting materials directly on the floor surface and then putting down tongued and grooved chipboard (that is particle board) flooring to cover them. It’s a sad fact that in most case now the construction and even furniture trades are forced as a matter of availability and costs to employ glue held particle boards in their trades and practices. No doubt real first growth wood products and plywood would be preferable yet the invention of particle boards out of raw waste sawdust has been a boom in many cases. In this particular case of providing insulation content between the flooring and outside or base areas it seems to work out well. Although particle board can be difficult to work with – especially on the teeth of electric saws.

Still in the end and all and all – anything you can possibly do as a resident, home or property owner to insulate flooring can only be to your benefit of yourself and the other residents or guests. It is partially a matter of energy, fuel and cost savings to insulate fully and totally as best as you can, and a matter of comfort being warm and toasty as you walk across the floor even in your stockings or bare feet.

Author Bio: Kerry A. Francis Furnasman’s One Hour Heating Furnasman Winnipeg One Hour Furnace – Heating & Air Conditioning provides the Wpg Manitoba area with expert service in heating, air conditioning, and air quality

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