Poured Concrete Basement Wall Insulation in Ludlow, MA
Challenge
Does your basement get cold and make your floors above cold as well?
Your poured concrete basement walls are buried in the cool earth and are perpetually cold - about 17° cooler than we like the interior of our homes to be. In the winter the part of the foundation that sticks up above the ground is much colder than that. Heat moves from more to less. The dense concrete has a lot of mass and heat from our basement constantly flows into and through the wall by conduction. You can never heat them. If you have a furnace, boiler, or water heater in the basement, the heat that comes off this equipment is wasted - lost into the cold concrete, instead of warming the basement and floors above it. In the summer, warm humid air from outside hits your cold basement walls, and condensation forms, supporting mold. This makes a cold basement, cold floors above the basement higher fuel bills, and more difficult to heat the house.
Solution
Does your basement get cold and make your floors above cold as well?
Your poured concrete basement walls are buried in the cool earth and are perpetually cold - about 17° cooler than we like the interior of our homes to be. In the winter the part of the foundation that sticks up above the ground is much colder than that. Heat moves from more to less. The dense concrete has a lot of mass and heat from our basement constantly flows into and through the wall by conduction. You can never heat them. If you have a furnace, boiler, or water heater in the basement, the heat that comes off this equipment is wasted - lost into the cold concrete, instead of warming the basement and floors above it. In the summer, warm humid air from outside hits your cold basement walls, and condensation forms, supporting mold. This makes a cold basement, cold floors above the basement higher fuel bills, and more difficult to heat the house.
