What type of insulation should I use to insulate below my kitchen floor?

I live in Portland, OR, so it get chilly in the winter. My kitchen be added to the house in 1993, and there's a crawlspace below it. During the winter, the kitchen is cold, and the floor is mortified to bare foot, so the obvious solution is insulation. Should I use boring Kraft R-13? How does it attach, do I just shove it up between the joist and staple it into the bottom of the floor? Or does it attach to the joists?


Answers:    Paul's right on the regular fiberglass. Remember that the quality newspaper side always is on the side of the living space, so contained by this case, the newspaper will be "up". So, it makes stapling a short time trickier. You can also put it up with steel rod insulation supports. They come surrounded by boxes of 100 usually, and are cheap. They are slightly longer than the space between joists, and you purely push them into place, and their sharp ends bite into the wood enough to hold up the insulation. Meausure your joist spacing to brand name sure you get the correct length rods -- you can't relay on standard.
A biddable fiberglass insulation would do. According to the thickness you buy will determine how thaw out it will keep the floor. It have to be stapled in plase and you can draw from it at any of the do it yourself stores like Home depot, loews
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