Room Over Garage - Stephens City, VA

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 by Justin Dobson

Challenge

The rooms above the garage in this Stephens City, VA home were too hot to even sleep in during the summer. The customer had requested to insulate the garage door and the garage walls. Comfenergy explained that this is not the issue. After a thorough assessment we determined the fiberglass batts had fallen away from the floor above.

If insulation is not touching the surface you are trying to keep warm/cool it is useless.

Solution

Comfenergy cut the drywall ceiling perpendicular to the joists to access these areas with a hose to "dense pack" cellulose insulation above the fallen batts. When we finished, we also repaired the drywall.

Now these rooms are nice and comfy. Don't diagose your own solutions people - let the experts at Comfenergy do this for you!