Old Carpet Attic Insulation

We are pulling up the carpet and padding in our house and replacing it with wood flooring.

Old carpet attic insulation.

Using old carpet as insulation. According to home advisor insulating your attic can cost between 1700 to 2100. In 1993 he came up with the idea of turning old carpet into loose fill insulation for attic applications. On the downside old carpet will probably encourage fungal growth in an attic space which isn t great if you store books clothes and stuff like that up there.

Batt insulation can be added to the underside of the roof between rafters and a layer of batt or loose insulation can be added over the attic flooring. Waste textiles old clothes curtains carpets are the latest materials to be developed into insulation to help save energy and lower utility bills. That worked pretty well the chipper broke the backing apart and left a fluffy fiber with a density of about 2 lb ft3 32 kg m3. For example a plain concrete floor loses more heat compared to a floor.

Before we do this i thought i d ask if this might be a bad idea for some reason. Type and material of your insulation. Fumblefingers dec 19 11 at 18 51. We have been wanting to put additional insulation in our attic and came up with the idea to spread the carpet padding in the attic over the existing insulation.

A home s flooring influences how warm and cool it is over the changing seasons. Square footage of your attic. The main factors that impact the cost are. And thinking of these examples made me wonder if it would be acceptable to cut my old carpet and pad into 15 strips to laying in my attic on top of the conventional insulation that i have.

Achieving greater r values in attics. You can mix the type and material of insulation too. The insulating properties would be negligible so i would suggest using purpose made material on that front. Insulation ratings can be improved by adding more layers of insulation.

Contractor or insulation installer s fee. Make sure your home is properly insulated in all these locations. Perhaps that s not as mad as it sounds. The insulating value of carpet padding.