Insulating Floor Of 3 Season Porch

How to insulate a sunroom or 3 season porch.

Insulating floor of 3 season porch.

If you re looking to extend the use of your three season porch or even turn it into an all season porch you ll need to look at adding insulation. Enclosed but uninsulated sitting areas are known as three season porches but if you live in a northern state cold weather can reduce that to two or even one and a half seasons. If it is above grade winter drafts will make the room too cold to use no matter how well the walls and ceiling are insulated. Insulating the floor is an important step in porch conversion.

Also imo the radiant barrier is a waste of time and just reduces your insulation. This can be stapled up between the floor joists. That would include the ceiling walls and underneath the porch floor. We just had a 3 season room built in place of our deck.

In terms of energy savings there isn t much benefit to insulating an unheated porch. Make sure that you wear gloves. After insulation is installed no poly vapor barrier only kraft faced so that it is semi permeable go back with 3 4 t g advantec then your floor then baseshoe. I was really surprised to see all the brand new insulation completely.

Use a vapor barrier to keep your floor above free from condensation caused by the new insulated area. A contractor i hired to insulate under my 3 season porch floor has used regular pink insulation r 27 but it has fallen out four times so far now half of it is on the ground. Our contractor originally said he d add some lattice work between the bottom of the house and the ground but later said there was not enough space to work it in. I looked under there today to see if i could come up with an idea for closing the gap to animals and debris.

However doing so will prevent cold air from seeping into the porch and may allow you to use the porch for a few weeks longer before winter arrives. Roll out the fiberglass insulation sheets between the joists facing side up making sure it is snugly in place.