Basement Sill Plate

Today's sales call was on a parsonage for a church. The new owner stated that the budget was $133 per month. I later found out that this budget was for the last 6-months...of the spring / summer season.

The house was a century home with a stone basement. In the attic there was an R-zero, so this was a definite need. However, the basement was a major air sealing job. The sill plate on top of the stone was leaking around the entire perimeter - to the point you could feel wind coming through. I explained that all the insulation in the world would not stop heat loss through openings to the outside.

With this being said, I recommended a house diagnostic blower door driven air leakage solution. Could that sentence have been any longer? Anyway, by depressurizing the house, the existing air leaks in the basement would be active and magnified, enabling us to properly seal the perimeter of the foundation. With the use of caulk and foam, the entire perimeter could be completed within an hour - savings quite a bit of energy for the little bit of time.

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