Well my house isnt insulated...well not the whole thing. My parents went ahead and insulated 1 room which is my weigh room.... while they changed the windows to dual pane, thats when we found out the hosue wasnt insulated. But my windows were replaced before that and my room was also painted. So we are trying to avoid removing the sheet rock and repainting, and also my room is on the corner of the house so two walls lead to the outside. We heard we can do this type of insulation where they make small holes between the 2x4's and shoot in insulation...any help on that and where i can find it? no look online and i dont know the name or if it even exist. help i'm coool!!

 

search for spray insulation?

 

i know about the insulation you're talking about. it just sprays out of a hose and sticks to the walls. i think it's made out of recycled news paper too ... but ... i've never seen an install of it with the drywall still in place ... damn Bob Villa

 

you can install it with the sheetrock in. go into the attic and use a hole cuter through the top plates between each set of nails and blow it in through there.

btw, 80% of your heat is lost through the attic, you may benefit from adding more insulation there. the blow in stuff is generally cellulose, which is ground up fire-treated newspapers. it is very cheap and not great if any of your family is asthmatic.

you can also use great stuff, an expanding foam that you squirt through 1/4" holes cut in the topplates, siding, or sheetrock. it breaks down after a few years though, (10-20 i think), and becomes a soft powder that is terribly ineffective and a bitch to clean up.

most expensive and time consuming would be to rip down the drywall and put up friction fit fiberglass insulation, but i wouldnt do that unless i was seriously remodeling a room.

 

Thanks, i'll look into it, any links? i cant find shit online on places to do it...like i said they...well not they I dont want to rip down the sheet rock, it was done in the other room on the wall leading outside because you only have to insulate the walls that lead outside right? well i dont want to do it becasue i painted my room a dark blue...and the ****in paint was like 50 bucks a gallon and had to put like 3 coats for the color to stick. any links to the other stuff? i mean any help is good, i just want it because i can feel the coldness by putting my hand close to the wall. i'm not freezing cold because we added central heating last year but the rest of the hosue gets hella hot for my room to get warm.

 

it would be retarded to insulate inside walls unless you like having loud sex or you have bathroom problems

you can buy bricks of cellulose at home depot or menards, it comes in like hay bail sized cubes, i think you have to rent a machine to blow it in. what i would probably do is find out how big the holes need to be in your top plates...call home depot or go in there, those people are all trained to assist, theyre generally helpful. ive never done it, but ill ask my dad what he thinks as hes on me to do my house too.

added central heating? ive never seen a house without a furnace.

 

well my house was build in the 60's or early 70's i think but not sure...and it started off as 1300 sq feet, with a wall heater between the main room, garage and 2 other rooms. the previous 2 owners added a huge family room on the other end and made the garage into a bigger master bedroom, and added the garage on the side which had enough room...well the lil heater was not enough to heat the room, they also added a fireplace stove type thing in the living room and that is enough to heat the big ass living room, family room, dinging room and kitchen, but does not heat the rooms and hallway...so we added central heating and airc conditioning to the whole house. We also changed all the windows to dual pane which helped but still gets cold in the winter. if we cant find another way we'll have to break down the drywall and add insulation.

 

THats why i am asking i'm not a contstruction worker or know anything about it..but heard u dont install insulation between inside walls.h:

 

Ain't there the foam type installation where it is sprayed into your wall but when it dries its like styrafoam?

 

yea something like that but i cannot find shit about it online or somewhere close to me, i'm gonna start callin places tomorrow from the yellow pages.