Recent content by ocsdfw

Not my house. Just an example of what I am thinking about doing to the underside of my house.

It would be done to the underside of the floor like it shows in this picture. This is not my house. I wish I had that much room down there. This is an example of what I am talking about. But like I posted that's another project that needs to be looked into but working on garage now.

I agree and try to do what I can by myself. We bought this house 6 months ago and its a learning process. Never owned a old home and a pier and beam home. Now its just having the time to finish. We budgeted for a lot knowing what we where getting into buying this house but its the stuff we did...

I am looking into having the underside of the house sprayed with closed cell foam. The crawlspace is mainly closed off already and there are no vents. I may eventually put a vapor barrier down there but if I do the foam it may not be needed. Its a very low crawl space. You have to basically...

Oh I hear them all and am going to try them one at a time as my budget allows. I will start with the ceiling and have Firecode X Panels put up in the garage then focus on garage walls. Beside the desire to help the master bedroom be more comfortable I am also hoping to save a little on...

I agree some more research needs to be done. These old houses hold lots of secrets. It has had 6 owners from what I can tell and the could that owned it the longest, 30 years, did do a lot of upgrades/additions to it and unfortunately one of the latest owners a few years ago was a flipper so...

Drywall would be easier to hang since its so much more lighter. The reason I mentioned treated plywood is that it gets real humid in the garage due to the area we live in and thought over time the drywall would be affect by the moisture. Unfortunately this garage connects to the kitchen and the...

I am leaning towards plywood because of the better R-Value. As far as fire resistant sheetrock my reasoning behind skipping this is that this house is made of wood, not a brick to be found in site. It also has asbestos siding on 80% of the house other than a few pieces that where replace I...

The house has central AC and Heat and the master has vents and all. It just that the flooring between it and the attached garage lets in heat or cold depending on the weather. When we first moved in there way no bat in the garage ceiling. Who ever decided to add the master over the garage did...

I think if would also be wise to cover it. I have been reading that plywood is a better insulator and has a higher R-Value than drywall or sheet rock. Its heavier and may cost a little more but I think it will last longer and if I get pretreated it will help with the moisture during the humid...

I really dont care what the temps are in the garage. I am trying to control temps going through the ceiling into the master bedroom.

There is no gap to blow in anything in the walls in the master bedroom or anywhere else in the house. As far as the windows we replaced all of them in the house when we moved in with double pane windows which will help. It had the original wood windows that had the weights on the side of the...

Yes there is, our master bedroom. Which is the hottest or coldest room in the house depending on the time of the year. If you look at the pictures you can see the batting I put in the ceiling of the garage which is under the floor of the master bedroom. Since its a garage it cold in the winter...

Yes when we first moved in I had insulation blown in the attic across the whole house including the master bedroom which is above the garage. I was just wondering if it would be helpful to cover the insulation/bats in the garage with plywood or radiant barrier plywood.

We bought a home built in 1940. Some additions where added in the 60's. One was a master bedroom built over the original attached master garage. Like all old homes insulation was not a thing. Especially here on the gulf coast since there was not AC then and cooling a house was done by gables and...