09-21-2018, 09:46 AM
So I'm about to rip up the carpet and refinish the floors in our bedroom (small cape cod style house). I want to pull down the drywall and get it redone-- current drywall is not in the best shape and there's ZERO insulation in the walls. Only thing in there is a brown paper, foiled backed paper stapled to the studs, under the drywall. When I had the living room walls redone, 8 years ago when I moved in, I had the drywall guy put regular r-13 batt insulation in the 2 exterior walls. I just don't notice that much of a difference between that room and the uninsulated rooms. I was thinking about doing spray foam-- problem is the job is too small-- I added another wall of another room to the job quote to beef up the job to make it worthwhile for him-- but still between 700 and 1000 dollars.
This seems a little too much money to spend, when ultimately i'm looking for 2 exterior walls done-- they are 8 ft high, and both about 10 ft wide, windows in both.
Is there something else that would be better than just shoving rolls of batt insulation in there? Perhaps cutting styrofoam insulation boards and "great-stuffing" them into the wall cavities? Some sort of combo of both? The exterior walls are 2x4.
I don't want to just drill holes and do blown in cellulose as I want to get the drywall redone anyways.
Colin
This seems a little too much money to spend, when ultimately i'm looking for 2 exterior walls done-- they are 8 ft high, and both about 10 ft wide, windows in both.
Is there something else that would be better than just shoving rolls of batt insulation in there? Perhaps cutting styrofoam insulation boards and "great-stuffing" them into the wall cavities? Some sort of combo of both? The exterior walls are 2x4.
I don't want to just drill holes and do blown in cellulose as I want to get the drywall redone anyways.
Colin