Bought a house about a year ago, and the basement ceiling is stuffed with fiberglass insulation. It's warm in the basement, especially the room where the furnace is, but we hardly ever use it.I'm wondering if all that insulation is trapping the heat the furnace gives off while it runs, preventing it from rising upstairs? Would it be worth removing it myself or just let it all stay in the ceiling? If you recommend removal what's the best way to dispose of it?Thanks!
I recommend leaving it. The warmth you feel is coming from air leaks in the ducts and from the furnace itself. The insulation works as a sound deadener as well as an air infiltration barrier. I insulated my basement ceiling for the above reasons, and it worked out well for me. The air temp in the room above stays more uniform, and the furnace cycles on and off less often. At night, I keep the door to the furnace room open, so that little bit of extra warm air filters out.
Leave it - taking it out won't warm your main level enough to do any good. The fiberglass insulation is also insulating your main level. It's also a great sound barrier. Just leave it. The pains you'd go through trying to pull it out would be much more than what it's worth anyways... That fiberglass is nasty stuff! You'll be iching for days, I swear... It's just plain nasty.
i would just leave it for the sound barrier alone but thats just me, it really shouldnt have any bearing on the heat for the above floor, unless the floor above has radiant heating tubes underneath than you should definatelly leave it in but other wise dont worry about it .
If it isn't raining don't repair the roof. It would be next to useless to remove the F.G. Newer heating systems don't give off the residual heat that the older models did in the past. So if you removed it you wouldn't warm the floors to any appreciable degree. Relax.
it rather is not a great deal interior the homestead. Your basement would desire to have some air bypass from the furnace nonetheless. in case you have a sign up or return air interior the basement in simple terms make constructive they are open slightly. it rather is extra of a difficulty for an outdoors wall of your place. Pull slightly of all of it the way down to work out if the joist hollow area feels damp. i might wager it won't. do not situation approximately it, it is going to never be a difficulty. in case you prefer you additionally could make slits interior the vapor barrier with a application knife. i might leave it because it rather is.
