How To Insulate Garage Ceiling Under Finished Bonus Room

This diy solution would helps a homeowner solve a common problem in many homes which is cold hot floors in the rooms above the garage.

How to insulate garage ceiling under finished bonus room.

Once you have finished the job lock the garage. Step five seal garage. The home we purchased three years ago has a finished bonus room over garage 22x25 that gets really hot during spring summer and fall. The name of this article though is how to insulate a room over a garage which implies insulating all the walls floor ceiling as well as dealing with issues specific to garages versus other kinds of cold spaces below finished rooms.

We live in a 7 year old ranch house near raleigh nc. I can see insulation around the bonus room in the attic. An open stairwell leads from the first floor has a door at the first floor level to the room over the garage. The options you have for the room in general are fiberglass batts blown in cellulose blown in cellulose injection foam and spray foam.

You have three basic options when insulating a bonus room. The unfinished room has plywood flooring and batt insulation separating it from the garage. Fix these by stapling the layers into place around the perimeter of your new ceiling. Then cover it with drywall.

Spray foaming the exterior walls use traditional blown in insulation and wrap the exterior of the walls with foil backed foam board install traditional fiberglass batts. I m a computer guy by trade so am building skills challenged. There is a 350 sq ft unfinished room over the 2 car garage and an adjacent large unfinished second floor attic area. Use fibreglass cellulose foam board or closed cell spray foam if it were my garage i d go with spray foam.

But if the garage is heated you should definitely insulate. Leave it for two or three days and it should feel noticeably warmer the next time you go in. Sealing the garage will give the insulation time to start working. This is due to uncond.

My initial assumption was that the heat was coming from the attic.