I've been working on making my house more energy efficient. Last year I blew in a foot of insulation in the attic, the year before I replaced all of the door and windows, I've been trying to insulate every nook and cranny I can find and my house still feels cool in the winter.
My house has NO siding on it, all of the soffit needs to be replaced, which are all 24" overhangs. I have 4" exterior walls, what if I took and lined the entire outside of my house with 2x2"s and 1-1/2"x 24"x96" styrofoam insulation panels.
I know I would have to line the entire bottom edge with wood and flash it to keep bugs out of it, and all of my windows were just put in the year before last, they all have the nailing stips on the outside, so at this point they would be fairly easy to pull each one back out and bring it to the outside edge, then build deeper window jambs on the inside of the house, (which has no trim on right now). basically it would be taking my walls from 4" walls to 6" walls, then house wrap and siding. What kind of opinion do you guys (or gals) have on this,
Do you think it would be a beneficail improvement. or does anyone have any ideas for something better?
My house has NO siding on it, all of the soffit needs to be replaced, which are all 24" overhangs. I have 4" exterior walls, what if I took and lined the entire outside of my house with 2x2"s and 1-1/2"x 24"x96" styrofoam insulation panels.
I know I would have to line the entire bottom edge with wood and flash it to keep bugs out of it, and all of my windows were just put in the year before last, they all have the nailing stips on the outside, so at this point they would be fairly easy to pull each one back out and bring it to the outside edge, then build deeper window jambs on the inside of the house, (which has no trim on right now). basically it would be taking my walls from 4" walls to 6" walls, then house wrap and siding. What kind of opinion do you guys (or gals) have on this,
Do you think it would be a beneficail improvement. or does anyone have any ideas for something better?