How To Insulate Old House By Removing The Shiplap Siding

In the 80s the home owners stuccoed the house against the clap boards without a wrb.

How to insulate old house by removing the shiplap siding.

The interior has no insulation. The house is drafty in the winter with drops of 10 20 between thermostat and walls in quite a few places. 3 ways to insulate siding and reduce home energy loss. Adding insulation to the walls of an old house without any other precautions can result is rotting walls full of mold under certain circumstances.

Most of the walls have 1x8 shiplap boards installed under the plaster and lath. The old siding will either be removed or covered up in the process making it easy to add insulation a number of ways. This article hits near home for me as i m evaluating my old house reno. In other cases drilling holes in the walls or removing a couple courses of clapboard to blow insulation into the stud bays may work with no problems.

I live in a 120 year old house in climate zone 4a. My plan is to remove everything down to the studs i m cleaning out the old blown in insulation and in some cases fiberglass insulation that was installed backwards when the house was resided back in the 60s plus rewiring and installing new insulation.