Sub-slab insulation in occasionally heated barn / living quarters – GreenBuildingAdvisor
I’m working on a barn-style outbuilding with three large connected garage bays, with living quarters above and a kitchen/living area behind. My question is: Knowing that the connected garage bays will only be occasionally heated, should I spec sub-slab insulation under the garage floor slab? It’s a standard build; lost the fight for exterior insulation, […]
Supply train visibility, transparency, management, optimization, resilience… these terms are ubiquitous, and often used interchangeably in conversations around supply chain sustainability and Scope 3 emissions reporting and management. Underlying these overlapping, and sometimes vaguely defined phrases, is the concept of traceability. Traceability is the ability to track a product or material across the entire supply […]
My head is spinning from reading so much about SIP roof assemblies here on GBA, but I don’t have a direct answer to my specific questions. I’m hoping I can get them here so we can move forward. We live in a house in climate zone 6B (but bordering 7B per GBA’s climate zone map) […]
We are building on a block wall crawlspace foundation. We hired out the block wall work, and specified exactly where we wanted the cast in bolts placed into the concrete filled CMU wall, but long story, due to the contractor’s combined lack of skill and lack of putting the bolts only where we specified to […]
I need to cap off a conduit/wire chase that runs from an unconditioned attic to the basement. I’m probably overthinking this, but I want to do this correctly since my attic doesn’t have blown in insulation yet and once it does, walking around up there is way harder. Just duct tape it off? GBA Detail […]
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