This came up at the right time for me. I'm going to blow fiberglass in the new shop ceiling on Saturday and it will be 16". Lumber yard claims the power company will help on the cost if it's 16". I don't think they will help out on anything more than that.
Buick mentioned air leaks. This is more true than most of us realize. My old shop is 30x32 with a 13 foot ceiling and when I built it I went to excesses to make sure it was tight. It has six inches of fiberglass in the walls and 12" of cullulose in the ceiling. Back when I was burning wood I had gas heat also but it was set at just above freezing to keep the shop from freezing after the fire died out at night. The propane tank was a little 100 gallon job and one tank lasted till mid-march, and after that is wasn't needed till the next winter. One summer the big door got cracked (I know how it happened but don't ask) and I didn't fix it. Crack was maybe 12" long and spread possibly 1/8" at most maybe less. That next winter the tank ran out in February. Couldn't figure it out till I happened to be laying on the floor by the door and felt the slight breeze coming from the crack. So that crack wasted 35 gallons of propane for me that winter. A quick piece of duct tape over the crack would have saved me that much fuel.
Talking about blown insulation. That 12" of cellulose that was blown in the old shop attic in 1982 is now 6" of paper mache. This building has an uninsulated steel roof with a 4' ridge vent and the condensation drip over the years wrecked the insulation. The attic should have had better venting and maybe the steel should have been insulated.Jim
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