From what I can tell, they look to be pretty tight. I guess I need to figure out how to handle this better for next year. I need to figure out how to keep the pipes from freezing, sealing up whatever gaps there are and tightening up in general. As an example, the ceiling of the crawlspace has R-13 between the floor joists, I think this should be R-25 or better? I suspect that there are issues through out the house like this. House never held the heat well.
The house is a split and the crawl space is only under the middle 1/3 of it.
The first third used to be an enclosed porch (now a den and dining room) that was made a real part of the house. I can only access the space under 1/2 of this part, the other 1/2, I suspect is only a foot or so above ground. Don't know what if anything is between the floor and the ground.
The middle third with the crawl space is the living room and kitchen. These 2 sections are the same level, with the water line from the well, the expansion tank and most of the plumbing under here.
The last 1/3 is 2 story, beds and bath upstairs, converted garage downstairs, no basement. has the walk in access to the crawl space. Upstairs bedrooms stay 70 F
Downstairs used primarily for storage, the heat from the pellet stove does not get to the downstairs part and the temp gets down to 50 in here. Last few days let a thermo controlled electric heater work down here when the inside temp dropped below 55.
Did that make any sense? I don't want to waste energy heating an uninhabited part of the house but don't want to be penny wise pound foolish either. When we did the windows a few years ago, we were amazed at how thin the walls were. I figure the windows are probably better insulated then the walls
I got's more issues then a newsstand........
John
