How to insulate steel building the fast and easy way

something different today it's kind of cool if you have a metal building this is a carport but it gets really hot in here and I was thinking what can I do to insulate this because you know you could spray foam on here you know who has a spray foam rig and it's kind of ugly when you put it on it you want to drywall over it and it's pretty ugly to do all that stuff but I'm gonna show you how you can do the basically the same thing for a lot less money and you could do it yourself in just a few hours you could do this whole garage in in one day and this is ten feet tall goes up over here so and also make it a little bit quieter it's a sign Thai baby dead and some of the noise get rid of some of that so it's really easy to do over at Home Depot they have this nice Energy Star stuff it's basically foam with a radiant barrier on it so what does that do that insulates very good insulation all you do is you cut it to fit so you cut it from here measure from here to here back up so you can see when I come out from here to there your piece I've had about an inch to your measurement you know three quarters of an inch to an inch your measurement something like that which is you cut the pieces and then what you're going to have to do on this because it's such a wide area you'll have to put several dots of 100% silicone put a few dots across here a few dots across here just a few small dots maybe about that big around and then because it pretty much stays on its own but you just push the piece in shove it in the hole let the silicone to do its work but because it's a little bit wider than the area even on the ceiling when you push it in place it'll stay and I'll show you what that's like I haven't shed I've done the same way I'm doing my sheds my mental buildings I'm doing everything with this stuff right here and it really makes a difference makes it a lot cooler looking forward to summer coming and being able to still work so basically I did this the same way you can use it for wood metal anything and it will insulate it it makes it a lot cooler typically when you put up insulation you need to have insulation and you have to have drywall over that for it to work but this stuff because it has the foam and the radiant barrier it it does all that at once so you eliminate having to put the drywall over it so it just pushes it into place doesn't really have an R rating but it does work really well so basically all I did in here it just cut these a little bit larger than the hole is when it's in the looser kind of just you know half inch 3/4 of an inch push it into place that's all that holds it's just the fact that it's just shoved in there it stays there it's been that way for years and it doesn't doesn't warp the heat doesn't do anything to it it works pretty well so you can use it for draw attic all different types of things you can use it for and its really good insulators especially the one-inch friend of mine has a one inch and his still shed and that's his office and he has a little air conditioner in the wall and it stays cool all the time it doesn't you'd never even know and that's all he has just this he didn't have any drywall in there it's just like one of those little steel sheds you got it you get a home depot for like nine hundred bucks so anyway you like it twelve by fourteen that's it so anyway that's a great little trick for you guys learning how to do your insulate you're still building

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Id: 7_U6f9bZAiQ

Length: 4min 25sec (265 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 16 2017