Cutting grove in floor to insert slab edge insulation?

Ken Caverly

The contractor left out the slab edge insulation. Is it possible to cut a narrow groove through the floor just inside the footings and insert the insulation there after the fact. Cap it with a wooden trim which would run up to the wall like a wooden decorative border.

The plumber placed the piping on insulation and it appears to be back from the edge of the footing by 4 or 5 inches. If this could be done it would be preferable to digging up around the outside and applying insulation to the footings on the outside.

Has anyone had any experience with something like this or have any other suggestions?

Weezbo

I'd bust out the shovel ,couple hours later it is done.

one piece of insulation goesup the wall one piece goes around the perimiter at a slant away from the building..bitchuthane on the exterior is a good idea while your at it.

Ken Caverly

It's not a matter of busting out the shovel; much of it is a concrete patio slab on the outside. They also dumped the excess concrete into this area before pouring the slab over top of it.

Can you explain what you mean by the piece that goes at a slant away from the building?

Thank you for your response.

Ken

Weezbo

hmm... the piece that is off at a slant oki:)

it is basically to funnel the heat backat the buildingand increase the foot ptint of the houseto slow the heat booking off to the next county.if you would like to find really clear math and another way of saying this you can look for energy star ratings of new residential construction in alaska. if you look about you will find a friend of mine in Anchorage who teaches a class on Heating ventalation and Recovery This class is basically a requirement for most General Contractors residential endorsement. i say most as we have some degree of lattitude depending on our distance from the nearest munis etc. or the burrough in which we live. we have one here called the unorganized burrough, I Personally would like to start a new one called the disorganized burrough so Human Beings could keep government away.sorta a place whwere we dont get told howmany square feet of our property can have old rusty carbodies and 100 year old boilers tied down by gravity.all this time i have been looking around for some ref material for you and it appears to be with some things i have stored away to allow me to get some work done in my home, i seem able to do stufffast for every one else, me...Eh ,i usually wait till spring *~/:) the physics of it is, gravity catches up with me.

Dale

Sure

Done all the time by the basement water fixers, and while you're at it if you do have a water problem put in the drain tile to a sump.