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Right now there will be no insulation in the garage exterior walls. At some point I may add R-19 rolls (which is really R-17 when compressed into cavity) in the walls and blown in insulation in the attic. I know my insulation plan for the separation wall seems like overkill, but I wanted to...

I'm getting close to finishing my 26x26 attached garage project addition. The garage is in Michigan, Zone 6. My question is regarding the wall the separates the house and the garage. It is constructed with 2x6 studs that have a cavity depth of 5.5". Building code requires that I remove the...

Crawl space under the house is not heated. Stays in the 50's in the winter. Garage, when finished, isn't going to be heated but may be in the future.

I'm currently building an attached 26x26 garage to a house that sits on a crawl space in Northern Michigan. The house crawl space foundation walls have 3" (R-15) XPS insulation on the interior of the crawl space. I insulated the inside foundation walls of the garage foundation on three sides...

Thanks for the info everyone! The top concrete block on the stem wall is a 6” wide block instead of the 8” block. This is because the wall will be framed with 2x6 studs and drywall installed eventually and this way there won’t be exposed portion or “lip” that I would get with and 8” block...

I am currently building a 26x26 attached garage in Northern Michigan. It has a 4-block stem wall foundation. I just finished damp proofing the exterior foundation using Duck Coat (rubberized elastomeric polymer). Code requires 2" of insulation on the inside of the foundation before foundation...