itscoldinwi
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Hello everyone! New to the forum.
I've got an older home that at some point had an approximately 9'x6' addition put onto the kitchen.
There is no basement under this addition, merely a crawl space accessible from the basement, and therein lies my problem. I'm in Wisconsin and with this addition sitting just a couple feet off the ground my kitchen is always 10-15 degrees colder than the rest of the house. The bottoms of my cabinets in this area read 42 degrees F with an infrared thermometer. We actually keep a door closed between the kitchen and the rest of the house because if we don't the cold air makes it's way through the rest of the home and our furnace never shuts off as a result.
The crawlspace was insulated before I bought the place but it doesn't seem to be doing any good. I've blocked off the actual hole in the basement wall leading to the crawl space because leaving it open just causes frigid air to pour into my basement.
What suggestions might some of you have to rectify this problem and bring my kitchen to equilibrium with the rest of my house?
I've got an older home that at some point had an approximately 9'x6' addition put onto the kitchen.
There is no basement under this addition, merely a crawl space accessible from the basement, and therein lies my problem. I'm in Wisconsin and with this addition sitting just a couple feet off the ground my kitchen is always 10-15 degrees colder than the rest of the house. The bottoms of my cabinets in this area read 42 degrees F with an infrared thermometer. We actually keep a door closed between the kitchen and the rest of the house because if we don't the cold air makes it's way through the rest of the home and our furnace never shuts off as a result.
The crawlspace was insulated before I bought the place but it doesn't seem to be doing any good. I've blocked off the actual hole in the basement wall leading to the crawl space because leaving it open just causes frigid air to pour into my basement.
What suggestions might some of you have to rectify this problem and bring my kitchen to equilibrium with the rest of my house?