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Basement wall insulation
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Properly insulating basements and concrete slab floors

...insulated, the second insulated to meet Building Code (R10) and the third insulated to R20, the minimum we would recommend in Canadian and US cold climate zones,  for comfort and a good return on investment. Modelled using a 4-inch concrete floor, you can see that in the first image of an uninsulated floor, the colo...