What are you gonna do tomorrow

[Semicolon]

... about insulation ...


I am told that my crawlspace should be insulated on the sides and bottom and the interior of the space should be open to the heat and air like the rest of the house.

What do you think of this "new thinking?"

I have four inch thick concrete, five feet deep, surrounded by solid building blocks all around the perimeter of the concrete, rising another four inches, whch the house sits on (with about forty pylons made of the same mareial). I have massive insulation against the flooring from undermeath, but I am told that I would be better off to allow the heater and air conditioner to enter the crawlspace and insulate the sidewalls better.

What do you think?

I live in Central Indiana. Sometimes it gets to twenty or thirty below, Fahrenheit, in winter. It also gets into the upper nineties for a couple of months every summer and occasionally over one hundred degrees.

Should I trust my construction "professional"  and allow him to do this work?

Would I be better to insulate the perimeter of my crawlspace and allow it to be a conditioned air space, all year long?

Yes, it's a good idea.

You seem to have surprisingly bad insulation in the US, considering that the northern parts of the country are actually as cold as here.

I think it is a bit disturbing that you are judging an entire third of a continent by one post made to a fellow poster about a very specific issue.

If you really wanted to help, you would cite some scientific data that might provide me with answers to my specific question, helping me to make a decision on a very expensive home improvement, instead of making broad brush strokes against Americans at every turn.

Your post reminds me of the "Eye DEE Ten T"  error, so common on the net these days.

(Write it out ...  "id10t")

DID ANYONE EVEN GET THAT!???!

It was brilliant!

I got it.

[conlang returns]

I fear I may have to sift through my phone history to find a number from like, two months ago. 

[odeon]

Hopefully, finally get an appointment with my opthalmologist.

[Parts]

Selling at flea markets both days this weekend

[Queen Victoria]

What I plan to do and what I actually do will probably bear very little resemblance to each other.

[skyblue1]

Try to work

[Parts]

Getting up at 330 to head out to sell at the flea market

["couldbecousin"]

  I will spend most of my day doing        and possibly shopping at Price Rite!

[sg1008]

Hopefully, finally get an appointment with my opthalmologist.

How did that go? How is your eye?

[DirtDawg]

I am going to deposit a fairly large check (thirty seven hundred dollars) I earned for having spent the better part of a two months building a radically powerful speaker system for a "friend"  of mine, who has a band.

I have made them happy and they paid me.!!

It is just so easy to make a few bucks, here and there,  when "friends" have money and one (such as I) knows the physics of making big sound out of quality gear.

Making a go of it all in the "real world" of massively competitive backstabbers is another story. I am actually retired from all that, but I can still make my "friends" some better than average gear that will still compete with shit upon which they would spend weeks of wages.

[DirtDawg]

Hey, I am not plussing myself here.

I am plussing  the bank account from which we buy food and make mortgage payments.

[sg1008]

Shower. 'Cause I schtank.

[Parts]

Go and fix some snow blowers for the guy who owns a building supply house I buy some stuff from.  Then I get to explore his city block long warehouse filled with all sorts of stuff so I can set up a big tag sale blow out to get rid of a lot of it for him

[odeon]

Hopefully, finally get an appointment with my opthalmologist.

How did that go? How is your eye?

Didn't get an appointment. The eye seems to be better, though. It's an on and off thing.

[odeon]

I'm going to be fixing the garage roof. Have to replace some insulation and stuff.