How To Insulate The Floor Of A Cabin

The air space above the 9 1 2 inch insulation in the 12 inch joist cavity will help provide a warm floor inside the cabin.

How to insulate the floor of a cabin.

The primary choices for today s discussion are the floor insulation options you can find at your disposal. Cover your insulation with 5 mm 1 4 hardware cloth. But you will find insulating concrete as well. Insulating your log cabin s floor can save up to 20 of your annual heating costs when fitted properly and combined with the finished floor.

Directly beneath the flooring and between the joists fit foil backed insulation boards for example 25mm or 50mm celotex a compressed foam material between silver foil. Via air gaps in the walls. Again i recommend you talk with your contractor about the best way to insulate your cabin floor to make sure you re not losing a lot of heat that way. The solid logs allow for very little airflow in and out of the cabin.

The two areas i would absolutely recommend insulating are your floor and roof. Insulating the floor log cabin flooring is made up of packs of tongue and groove boarding nailed to pressure treated bearers. This method has served me very well and it is not bothered by. These are some of the basic options you will find to use as floor insulation for your log cabin.

You may also be interested in this post on double glazing r and u values and log cabin thermal. Place the batts against the underside of the floor then cover with the hardware cloth securing it to the joists with a staple gun. I would also try to nudge you to insulate the roof as well. A closer look at the primary equipment.

It will provide additional insulating value for not too much more than what would be invested in the r30 insulation. A recap to my first video on the method i use for insulating the floors of my off grid cabins. Alternatively you could fill the cavity completely using r 38 faced batt insulation. If you were one of my customers and you were buying a lovely new log cabin from me especially one of our thicker wall log cabins such as 50mm upwards i would be strongly urging you to insulate at the least the floor of your new log cabin.