This is lengthy, so be forwarned. I have an addition on my house(I've only been here 3 yrs) I found out that the addition was put on in 1983. From what we can tell, it is on some kind of poured cement walls, like you'd find in a basement, but we don't know how far down they went or if they are on footers.. They bumped out half of the back wall(the family room wall and the kitchen wall)they added on a room apprx. 14' x 24', a vaulted ceiling and a corner fireplace...the problem is, they left no access to the underneath...this room is freezing...we know that the only insulation underneath was a single roll of paper backed yellow batting(insulation) that at one time was stapled to the undersides of the beams, that has since fallen to the ground, that is only about 12" below(not enough room to crawl around under there even if we had a way in)we need to get this room better insulated and some heat to it. There is one heat vent on the outside wall, and the tube runs underneath the floor, above the ground, so by the time the air gets to the vent, it's already cold...thats a span of 14', no wonder its cold. We were thinking about ripping up the carpet and flooring to expose the beams and add some kind of a vapor barrier(which we know, there isn't any)and use furring strips to hold up some insulation close to the floor along with putting in radiant heat flooring. Any other ideas on how to make this room livable? or any advice on what we're thinking about doing?
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18 years ago