Drywalling the perimeter of a new-construction home
Hey, everyone, I am looking for advice here.
My builder contacted me pre-construction and stated this: the existing Building Code applications produces homes being built extremely airtight which encourages condensation and high humidity levels in basements. Their normal insulation in the basement is to be done with Basement walls: – 15 lb. building paper, R-20 fiberglass blanket insulation to be above concrete slab– 6 mil. poly. The home comes with an HRV as well.
My plan down the road was to frame my basement and drywall it myself eventually, due to me reading numerous claims that you shouldn't do any work to your basement until the foundations have settled, like 2 years from construction. However, the builder is offering me this at an incredible price, its far cheaper than what I estimated my costs of framing, electrical, and drywalling would have been. The full perimeter of the basement walls would be insulated utilizing Rigid foam insulation covered with full stud wall construction and additionally insulated with batt insulation and finished with drywall, base coat finish as well as all electrical plugs to code.
Now my question is, if the price is very attractive is it a bad idea to do this in a new build?
My builder contacted me pre-construction and stated this: the existing Building Code applications produces homes being built extremely airtight which encourages condensation and high humidity levels in basements. Their normal insulation in the basement is to be done with Basement walls: – 15 lb. building paper, R-20 fiberglass blanket insulation to be above concrete slab– 6 mil. poly. The home comes with an HRV as well.
My plan down the road was to frame my basement and drywall it myself eventually, due to me reading numerous claims that you shouldn't do any work to your basement until the foundations have settled, like 2 years from construction. However, the builder is offering me this at an incredible price, its far cheaper than what I estimated my costs of framing, electrical, and drywalling would have been. The full perimeter of the basement walls would be insulated utilizing Rigid foam insulation covered with full stud wall construction and additionally insulated with batt insulation and finished with drywall, base coat finish as well as all electrical plugs to code.
Now my question is, if the price is very attractive is it a bad idea to do this in a new build?
