A Good Way To Insulate Your Basement Walls

hi I'm Shannon and I'm back here from house improvements calm and in today's video it's more of an informative video showing you what I'd consider to be kind of one of the better ways to insulate your basement walls obviously I think probably spray foam has probably would be the number one way to do it unfortunately the cost of it a lot of people can't can't afford to do it that way so this would be kind of what I would consider to be the next best thing and it's it's a little bit of a hybrid of foam and bad insulation so so you've obviously got you know bare concrete wall right you've either demoed your basement or maybe it was never developed so you've got a concrete wall this just happens to be paid to at one time but so bare concrete then what I would do is attach rigid foam usually one-inch rigid foam interlocking styrofoam to the wall rate to the concrete wall seal all the joints of that foam anywhere that needs to be sealed to create a barrier so this does two things it gives you some r-value in this case one inch usually gives you our five with most brands and it acts as your moisture barrier as well okay so we have other videos as far as how to attach this and talking about moisture barriers and that sort of thing so if you need some more information on that just check for those videos okay so you've you've installed the rigid foam and it's all sealed up then you're going to frame your walls I like to use from my bottom plate I like to use a blue wood framing or pressure-treated even because it is in contact with the concrete floor okay so your bottom plate I usually stick frame because I find in basements you know the floor is up and down a little bit and by stick framing I mean I'll attach my bottom plate and my top plates and I'll measure every stud and cut each one to fit and then toenail them in toe nailing them in is firing a nail or a screw on an angle from the side through the stud so it would come through like this and down into the plate now you've heard me preach many times about not using screws to frame this is not structural framing this isn't holding your house up would be perfectly fine here I've chosen to nail this but you could use deck screws here without any issues if you're using a pressure treated bottom plate or pressure treated lumber you'd want to make sure you're using the acq screws though okay so you'd frame your wall electrician would come in run all their electrical you know if there happened to be some plumbing or whatever anyways the other trades would run what they needed to run then then you could install bad insulation whatever brand or type that you choose to do so it would get installed and then then finally after that after that's all done then you're going to need to use a vapor barrier as well okay so it would go on this one isn't completed it's not all sealed but it would go on and be sealed up this this video is more about the products and kind of a little bit of the construction I think we have videos for just about every one of these applications as far as a little more detail on how to do it so just go to our youtube channel and look through the list and find them and watch them and that'll just all that'll piece together exactly how everything was done here but like I said I prefer this method if you're going to use bad insulation I prefer it over just a moisture barrier and nothing behind here so I think the one-inch styrofoam is definitely worth it so anyways I just wanted to show you this method and give you a better idea in case you've got a project coming up where you want to redo your basement so I'm hoping that it'll help you and speed up the process of deciding what you want to do so if you like what you've seen here click the little thumbs up button you can subscribe to our channel as well and if you have any questions about this or any of your projects you can go to our forum and post your question there and I'll answer it from there and also you can follow me on Facebook Twitter just to check out what we're doing and also we've got a patreon campaign as well where we're looking for pledges for anybody who wishes to do so so you can check that out good luck with your all your projects that you are taking on and I hope that you come back here any time you have a question or need to know how to do something thanks for watching

Channel: HouseImprovements

Views: 579,898

Keywords: basement, wall, walls, insulate, insulation, cold, warm, finish, develop, rigid, styrofoam, foam, spray, batt, fiberglass, fibreglass, fiber, fibre, glass, roxul, batts, seal, r value, draft, moisture, cool, freezing, DIY, framing

Id: cCFFuL4J0jQ

Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 13 2016