The team at broken drum insulation of bakersfield installs unfaced insulation spray foam cellulose blown in fiberglass batt fiberglass and rockwool as well as faced insulation.
Faced or unfaced attic insulation in new york city.
As you ve discovered since you already had insulation in your attic the layer of new insulation you added should have been unfaced to prevent moisture from becoming trapped between the layers.
Air migrates from warmer spaces toward colder spaces and insulation is designed to help prevent or at least slow that migration.
The good news is that the solution to your problem isn t that difficult.
However in the balmy florida panhandle with climate zones 1 and 2 insulating attics from r 30 to r 60 is ideal since good winter insulation isn t critical but.
What is the right insulation for an attic.
We use thermax insulation board which has a glass fiber reinforced faced polyisocyanurate foam core for a variety of commercial projects.
For example an attic should have insulation quality and volume that is rated between r 49 and r 60 in zone 7 regions like buffalo new york where it gets downright icy in the winter.
Now here s a situation where a homeowner what looks like many years ago added insulation they added a three inch layer but.
Owens corning r 30 ecotouch pink metal framed foil faced fiberglass insulation batt 16 in.