Ranch Refresh 3
 

We have a ranch style house build about 50 years ago. The original wall
insulation was fiberglass. I think it may have been blown or pumped into 2"
diameter holes top of each wall cavity. The insulation has all compressed at
the bottom of the cavities.

I'm thinking that about the best way to reinsulate the walls is to pull the
sheetrock off. The wife wants to retexture and repaint the walls in the
dining room, living room and two bedrooms that need insulation anyway.

Any thoughts, tips, suggestions or tricks would be appreciated.

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Fred.

Ranch Refresh 3
 

Fred Mayfield wrote:
We have a ranch style house build about 50 years ago. The original wall
insulation was fiberglass. I think it may have been blown or pumped into
2" diameter holes top of each wall cavity. The insulation has all
compressed at the bottom of the cavities.

I'm thinking that about the best way to reinsulate the walls is to pull
the sheetrock off. The wife wants to retexture and repaint the walls in
the dining room, living room and two bedrooms that need insulation anyway.

Any thoughts, tips, suggestions or tricks would be appreciated.

That would be the best way, if you can live with the expense and mess in
those rooms. You could even use spray foam, and fill the stud bays
completely, like they do on TOH. Note that one or two fresh walls in
each outside room will make the interior walls look tired, so don't be
surprised if the wife decides those need to be redone as well. If
original wall insulation was loose-fill, it was probably blown from
outside through the celotex sheathing, before siding and brick went on.
I know you have brick on the front, but if rest of house is horizontal
siding, they could easily do that again. Other popular shortcut is to do
it from top of wall on the inside, and then add wide crown molding to
hide the holes.

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