Q. This week: Our old house has cold floors. In particular, the kitchen floor, which consists of tongue and groove maple flooring nailed over the floor joists, is freezing in the winter. Is there a ...

Q. I want to make my house more comfortable, but I have a crawl space. The access under the floor is not bad and the soil seems damp. What are my options when it comes to insulation that I can install ...

I am renovating a house and the floor in our rec room gets very cold. We have an accessible crawl space below it. I would like to put up unfaced insulation between the floor joists and lay carpeting ...

Q: The room over the garage is cold in the winter and hot in the summer. The attic insulation was checked and OK’d by an insulation company. The roof was replaced last summer, installing ridge vents ...

Q: We have a frame house with a stucco exterior. Part of it is over a crawl space about 3 feet high. The house is bolted to the foundation and the exterior stucco covers the walls down to the ground.

Q: I am getting rid of wall-to-wall carpeting because of the kids' allergies. I want to replace it with hardwood floors. Will hardwood insulate as well as the carpet, and what woods are best? A: ...

Q: Should we insulate the rim-joist cavities of a crawlspace foundation? I am a builder, and where I live the codes require insulation, but I have discovered that the insulation causes decay and mold ...

Q: We recently had an energy audit of our 2009 home because our utility bills seem to grow each year. In addition to sealing some areas the insulators missed, the auditor pointed out that the floor ...

If there is a brick 3 story plus cellar building, the entire 3rd floor gets decent warmth, on the 2nd floor the southern 2/3 gets nice but the 2 bedrooms on the north ...

DEAR TIM: I want to make my house more comfortable, but I have a crawl space. The access under the floor is not bad and the soil seems damp. What are my options when it comes to insulation that I can ...

Question: I want to make my house more comfortable. I have a crawl space. The access under the floor is fairly easy, but the soil seems damp. What are my options when it comes to insulation that I can ...