Insulation is essential for keeping your home at a comfortable temperature as well as maintaining affordable heating and cooling costs. However, if you’ve recently bought your first home, you might not be aware of all the different places around your home that should be thoroughly insulated. If certain spots in your house lack sufficient insulation, you should hire a professional to add more. Here are the five areas you should check first.

What Parts of a Home Need Insulation?

1. Walls

Without enough insulation, your exterior walls can also be a source of air leakage in and out of your home. Insulation traps the warm or cool air from your home’s HVAC system, allowing it to circulate properly.

2. Attic

This is probably the type of insulation you’re most familiar with. The top of your house is one of the most crucial areas to insulate because heat naturally rises through your home. It can easily escape through your roof if your attic isn’t properly insulated, making your HVAC unit work extra hard to keep up.

3. Floors

Heat can also easily transfer through the ground by passing through your home’s flooring. Insulating the space underneath means that your floors won’t grow warm or cold due to the temperature outside.

4. Crawlspace

Crawlspaces tend to get very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. Since your crawlspace is located underneath your home, these temperature changes can very easily transfer to the rest of your house, driving up your heating and cooling bills.

5. Basement

Basements require insulation for the same reason that crawlspaces do. However, unlike crawlspaces, you’ll probably want to spend time in your basement, especially if you’ve equipped it with furniture and leisure items like a television or pool table. This makes proper insulation even more important.

If you need to add insulation to any of these spots in your home, contact Insulation Solutions of CT. Based in East Hartford, the home insulation company serves the entire state of Connecticut. This team of skilled contractors will visit your home to perform an energy audit using cutting-edge equipment to find air leaks and other sources of inefficiencies. To get started, contact the team online or call (860) 586-8111.