Southern Utah Crawl Space Insulation

When considering whether or not to improve your insulation in your southern Utah home, remember the overlooked crawl space below your floor. If you’ve ever walked across cement, tile or other hard flooring in winter, in can seem surprising how cold the floor can be. In fact, it can seem as cold as the ground outside. This is something to be expected from hard flooring, however it can be abetted with adequate insulation in the crawl space. According to the Department of Energy, they state to insulate “Floors above cold spaces, such as vented crawl spaces and unheated garages.”  Crawl spaces have vents that allow outside air in, which makes the temperatures inside crawl spaces the same as outside. Now, place a couple pieces of wood and some tile between the outside air and your bare feet and you have a very cold floor. Without adequate insulation between the crawl space and the floor above, hard flooring can be extremely cold and hard to heat to a comfortable temperature. Although it may stay cool, your home’s heating system will try very hard to heat it. This results in an added stress to the heating system to warm something on one side while the cold air is blasting it from the other side. To save your heater the added stress of heating an icy floor and your feet from freezing as you walk the halls in your home, have the crawl space insulation checked and improved by HiCaliber of southern Utah. Call our insulation specialists today at (435) 674-9338 or visit us online at http://www.hicaliber.biz