View Single Post
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 02-27-2008, 06:01 PM
pushkins's Avatar
pushkins pushkins is offline
Handy, Man
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 351
pushkins is on a distinguished road
I agree with Homerepairguy, the house wrap will do very little (if anything) for a block construction.
Hayzee has a good idea with filling the concrete blocks with vermiculite if you can get access to the tops of them, vermiculite is cheap, make sure you get it from a pool wholesaler, I built an inground pool last summer and the price of a big bag of vermiculite was between $7 and $25 for the exact same thing.
Blown in attic insulation offers about R3/inch so @12" you have about R36 in your attic, most places now are R49 for attics.

silver faced rigid insulation offers about an R7/inch
vermiculite is about R3/inch
drywall is about R3/1/2"
insulated siding about R4

if you could do the vermiculite, insulated siding and the 1 1/2" rigid siding a total of approx. R17, you would be over what is code compliant for external walls.

Hope this helps
Reply With Quote