Crawlspace 101
This weekend, Energy 2.0 received a message from Lands’ End specifically targeting everyone shivering their way through winter here in Massachusetts.
You know it’s cold when folks from Wisconsin are sending you winter sympathy messages via email. Beyond how cold it might be outside, the recent patch of artic weather here in Cambridge has resulted in lots of time spent inside for most residents. For Energy 2.0, that also means plenty of time to ponder why the ground floor of the house is always colder than the floors above.
A quick search around the Internet revealed a wealth of information on how most houses–particularly those built before the 1970s–don’t have properly insulated crawlspaces.
So if your bottom floor feels like a skating rink, find out why crawl space vapor… [view entry]
