Basement Encapsulation

We finished the basement encapsulation/ insulation job. Went very well, before we were even through the homeowner said he could already tell a difference, thats what i want to hear. Overall it was a great job that went pretty quickly. The basement encapsulation was perfect. Closed-cell foam insulation went up on the concrete block walls of the crawl space and vapor barrier enclosed the ground space to overlap up on the walls. Completely cleaned out the crawl space, insulated and weather-stripped the access doors. They close as securely as a refrigerator door now. Inside the house we used open-cell spray foam insulation in all of the attic spaces to cover the roof decking in between all of the rafters from the ridge to the eaves. This now brings this entire space into the insulated "building envelope". The attic areas wont go through the same extreme temperatures as they once did but will remain more of a conservative temperature year round. Interior walls adjacent to these attic spaces will be less susceptible to temperature change now that the space is insulated.

The benefit to insulating the crawl space and the attic spaces is to prevent heat loss from the conditioned places in your house and the heating and cooling units are no longer in extreme temperatures working twice as hard to raise and lower the temperature in your house, therefore the units work more efficiently and last longer saving you money in two ways. Now who doesn't like saving money?