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Q: How should I insulate the heating and cooling ducts that run through the attic of my 1950s bungalow in East York? The ducts run across the tops of ceiling joists and are exposed to cold in the ...

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I am renovating a house and the floor in our rec room gets very cold. We have an accessible crawl space below it. I would like to put up unfaced insulation between the floor joists and lay carpeting ...