I'm doing a total renovation on my
home and am running into a lot of questions I don't have good answers to, how to insulate being just one of them.
The house is an 1840s two story post and beam located in Piedmont NC.
The siding is nailed directly to
the studs- no exterior sheathing.
The interior side of the walls as well as the ceilings are sheathed in wide T&G boards- hand planed (scalloped cuts of a foreplane quite visible).
I plan to carefully remove the wall boards- do structural repairs, install
MEPs, sheetrock and then replace the
boards in most areas- either painting
or wallpaper .
One big question is how to insulate
and providing an effective vapor barrier. My concern is during the Summer with AC - moist exterior
air moving into the conditioned interior.
I'm open to any and all "Brain-storming" ideas/thoughts