On 12/17/2004 2:21 PM US(ET), spotty took fingers to keys, and typed the =

following:

It does if you head bumps into it - with 5 1/2 to 6 ft ceiling - this
is highly likely as I already have to bend slightly to avoid hitting my
head on the joists.

With regard the paper being a combustable etc. the fact that its
wooden floorboard and joist about - are these not combustable as well.
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Yes, but one is more combustible than the other. Hold a lit match up to=20
a joist, and drop another on a pile of shredded paper. Guess which=20
material would burn more easily (other than the fingers holding the match=
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I'm just looking at trying to find reasons why putting bats in
reverse and stapling the paper up to the joists would be a bad
move.....
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I've had my basement ceiling bats stapled up with the barrier facing=20
down for 20 years.
My basement is finished though, and the boiler and water heater are down =

there.
My basement temperature runs between 65=BA (winter) and 75=BA (summer)=20
without any additional heat other than the ambient heat from the boiler=20
and water heater, so which side is the warm side?




Art wrote:
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Vapor barrier goes up to warm side. Don't worry about pieces of
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exposed
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fiberglass falling down into your basement. Doesn't happen.



"spotty" wrote in message
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I've seen a couple of questions relating to this but not one that
really answers my question.

I have a 105 year old house - stone foundations and basement which
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has
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a 5 1/5 ft - 6ft ceiling so really never going to be finished out.

The basement contains our furnace and a hot water heater and the
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rest
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is pretty well just used for storage. The floor above is simply
hardwood floors - pretty old stuff which small gaps etc. that you
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can
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see down to the basement. The house seems to cool down very
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quickly
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when the heat goes off and the floor remains fairly cool to the
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touch
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making the downstairs rather unappealing in the winter.

I suspect insulating the ceiling in the basement will help slow
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down
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the loss of heat in the room a bit - the basement is closed off to
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the
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direct outside - no open vents or anything like that.

If I want to use fibreglass insulation on the ceiling between the
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joist
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s - do I really need to put a vapor barrier in and if I do I do not
want to have fibreglass exposed.

I suppose what I'm saying is if I get faced fibreglass batts and
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put
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them in so paper side is out rather than against the floor - it
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will
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conceal the fibreglass. But it would mean that the paper which I
think is a vapor barrier is on the wrong side.

As the furnace is down there it provides a degree of residual heat
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-and
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have not noticed condensation forming down there last winter.
Is this a good idea ?

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