To answer Alot of your questions up front....since installation I have recorded a difference of about 10 degrees cooler inside on hot days . Which is effectively a 20-30 degree drop from what it would be without the insulation since the radiant heat would have caused it to actually be much HOTTER inside than outside on hot sunny days. I've also noticed about 10 degrees warmer on cold days. (This is with no conditioning) - No I am not relying solely on double sided tape to hold this up, near the end of the video you will see that I also added staples and screws! - One afterthought is to also use small L brackets to secure the wood strips to the frame. - I have 0 condensation issues since installing this! - Also, yes many of you say spray foam is better and of course you are probably right....but it's more expensive ...and this works for me! - I have since conditioned the space and achieve very comfortable working conditions (75° inside vs 98° outside) with this combination at a price I could afford! Stay tuned! Thanks for watching!

Finally, someone posted a useful video on how to insulate a metal building.

GREAT video, just had a 24x26 garage building finished and now I know how to insulate it.

This is amazing show and tell. I am so grateful to you. I might do this for my metal building as soon as I can

Really effective way .only a person without knowledge of thermodynamics would disagree. Very good video. I have used it in three of my buildings in last three months. In hot sunny season its really very very good.

I am looking at putting up a pole shed and had this question about insulation. Love the flags !!!

Nice job, love the clean look inside. I’m patiently waiting for my 24x36 metal garage to arrive. I will certainly be following along with your tips on your channel.

That’s a lot of work ! I’m glad I opted for them to fit at build time !

Great tip thank you , perfect timing going to try this in my attic looks like great heat deflection .

Thank you for making this video. So many great takeaways. My wife and I did a similar project with similar materials, and watched this video many, many times before starting it! We used the wood strips to create an airgap, and double-sided tape. I ended up using construction adhesive for the remaining walls because we ran out of the tape about 3/4 of the way to completion. So far ours is holding up, but we need to add more vapor barrier tape on the edges. Thank you for your content!

Superb editing! Thank you for sharing your experience.

Finally a good video on how to insulate a metal building I have been waiting for something like this

Thx a Ton for the Post

Great job! You are correct about the air gaps and it actually provides an increased r-value. We used foil faced foam board in ours with an air gap, supporting the ceiling boards with a non-conventional method. Has worked very well.

I wrapped my cabin Graceland shed entirely with Reflectix. Excellent results.over 100 outside hear index 114F and inside the cabin was 74F. Awesome system. The dead airspace is essential.

I’m actually building a VersaTube this summer; this is exactly what I need done!

The flags are an awesome touch!

For the roof, use a solid type insulation and lay from rib to rib. My building allowed me to take off end cap and slide in from the end. works great.

Will start installing same material on my 26x35x12 unit ..thanks for the tips and great video

That was very helpful! Thank You! (love the flags! Great idea!)

My first thought was, "well, isn't the metal exterior acting like a radiant barrier already?". I read up on it prior to watching the video and realized I was wrong. Great install and great details in this video!! Thanks for putting out quality content.

It LOOKS GREAT! Well done! This has made me rethink what I might do to my 'bus' conversion! Thank you for showing all the steps and providing the links. Two thumbs up and five stars, young man, from this old patriot! :)

I don't know why KZfaq decided I needed to see this, but the algorithms worked in my favor today. I'll be doing this in my shop next week! Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the video, this gave me the confidence to do it myself.

The exterior color and proper roof coatings can also be a lot of help with temperature and moisture and longevity of the structure. Good luck to you and your channel.

Really appreciate this video. I decided to go with the Prodex 10M Total plus insulation that looks like yours and has equal radiant barrier, but it has R22 value and built in Class 1 vapor barrier at at little less than 1/2” thick. The saving compared to closed cell spray foam was about 75%. You did a great job with your installation technique as well as the one where you sealed the bottom of the metal tubing against the concrete with silicone. Thanks again!!

great work- thanks for sharing the knowledge

Thanks for giving the how to. Most folks just say attach it and you're done.

Just had a 30x45 installed and was wondering how to insulate it. Thanks for the information.

I have a metal building that is insulated the traditional way like your video showed at the beginning. It would always be hotter inside the building because the beams would get hot from the roof, and the insulation would hold the heat in. It would get extremely hot inside to the point it was unusable when it got hot outside. I put the Henry cool roof coating on the roof from Home Depot, and it’s like night and day. It went from always being hotter inside to always being cooler inside. One thing though, I have a 15 foot carport extension on one side of the building, it is not insulated like the main building, you can see the underside of the roof in the carport. I also put the cool roof coating on the roof over the carport, and it now rains in the carport do to the extreme condensation that occurs in certain conditions when it’s cool at night and warms up quick in the morning. The warm moist air contacts the underside of the “cool” roof, and extreme condensation occurs, I’m thinking I somehow need to insulate the underside of the roof in that area.

I live in Alabama and I’m planning to have a shop like this. Thank you for this video

That looks great. I would that's plus the insulation sheet panels.

Nice clean looking job! You left space between the metal and the insulation giving air a place to move instead of condense. Is it possible to connect the wall space cavity to the ceiling space cavity and then vent out in the peak? Also to accomplish this, small vents could be made at the base of each wall cavity. I've found that moving air will dissipate the moisture and reduce the condensation. Air should rise naturally to the peak and vent out moisture....just thinking. Any opinions on this? At minimum, vent the roof.

Very good presentation,metal is the way to go with the price of wood lumber

Awesome, thanks for the info.

That looks great, you do nice work.

Finally someone that can walk chew gum and show actually how to do something without having to know the name of your pets your grandma your great grandma and your fourth cousin removed

Great video. As a fellow insulator I’m always curious to see what my southern friends are doing about this radiant heat. I typically see spray foam installed as it provides a air tight envelope, but I’ve heard great things on this foil product in hot climates.

Great video! I really like your solution! I'm going to pretty much copy what you did.

Great video! Thanks and keep posting!

i have a similar building. I couldn't afford the insulation at the time of build ($10,000) so i decided to do it later. i like the idea of yours to do it this way. But i have been thinking the metal attached to the metal studs do draw heat and if that beam could be insulated with like a cover of foam board it would help drop the inside temps as well. thanks for posting

I am wondering why you didn't attach the furring strips to the front of metal studs and cover the wall studs and ceiling rafters with the insulation? Those metal studs transmit a lot of heat and cold. It would also give you a larger air gap and prevent the insulation from touching the wall metal in between the furring strips.

Great video as well as the job You did. Love the flags; Nice touch. Thanks for the helpful video.

Great video thank you. I did exactly what you did and I too put screws in the roof because as soon as it started getting hot out that tape was giving way 👍

Great job with the mechanical fasteners. That tape would eventually fail especially in high heat conditions. ✌🏻🇺🇸

Nice video! I have a similar building. Put up sheets of styrofoam, held them up with furring strips on the outside of the foam, attached to the steel beams. Been working, however, I now see a mistake. I have them directly touching the walls/ceiling. One thing I've noticed, the condensation still forms on the beams, drips off of them. Hopefully you won't have that issue. Oh, you just got a subscriber!

Great video, you sure helped me decide.

Thank you! Great video!!

Nice work! Did you by chance get a before and after interior temp reading?

wonder why you wouldn't put the tape on the mtl posts and beams and just run the insulation horizontal continuous. much faster. cost vs closed cell? and closed cell adds structure and much more insulation with 1".

Looks super clean! Don’t have any moisture issues! Thanks

Excellent video,great idea,great job thhank you for sharing.

What happens during the winter? Do you know if the warmer building air in the winter causes any condensation between the foil insulation and the metal roof. If so, does this cause a mold issue?

Love the flags! Rock on, Patriot!

I would like to echo other comments thank you for this our metal building is being installed today.

That looks so easy

Thanks for covering this topic. Could additional insulation be added to the building after the double bubble foil is installed? In Northern Minnesota winters get really cold. A high R-value could lessen the strain on the heaters.

Curious to know if you took a temperature reading since you installed insulation. What was the difference?

Best on KZfaq by far 👍🇺🇸

Love it bro amazing

That looks like a great option. I've seen several folks have this double bubble stuff turn to almost a dust and start falling apart. Hope yours holds together!

I had pros install the 4ft wide batting, plastic covered insulation. I'm having major inside condensation problems dripping on my machinery. Anyone else?

Thanks for your video! I just found out about the double bubble insulation today. I immediately called my building guy and added it to my 26x40 metal building (concrete forms start in 3 days). I was quoted $2400 which I feel is a bargain. It’s WAY BETTER TO HAVE THIS DONE BEFORE the sheet metal goes on.

Love it !!

Just curious. Could I attach insulation directly to metal beams instead of using the wood?

Now that you've had this insulation up for awhile, how well do you find that it is working? For both the heat and the cold. I'm in the southeast also and am about to put up a metal building and am currently weighing my options for insulation.

Great tutorial. I’m having a barn built and researching on how to insulate and wire it. Great job. Thanks. I’ll be following you.

Thanks for the video. I was looking for a video how I could do my shop. I think I'll go to what you did. 👍🏼

Nice job. You have the ridge vent for the venting of the roof. But where is the hot air in the wall going ? How is it vented to the outside at the top of the wall ? Thx

Sorry to let you know that in several years you are going to regret your choice of material. It deteriorates into falling plastic particles. I have a pole barn that I am having to deal with that is about 15 years old.

Thanks down here in SW LA as you know we were hit with 2 hurricanes it took out my 35x35 shop and now finally getting a new one built in 6 weeks (prices skyrocketed) going back with a 30X50w/10ft wing insulating myself will save a lot of $. thanks for the video.

Good information. Thanks

IT LOOKS GREAT MAN! I HOPE TO SEE ANOTHER VIDEO WITH A THERMOMETER, AND THE OVERALL TEMPERATURE INSIDE THE WHOLE BUILDING. KUDOS TO YOU..

Nice video, thank you.

Nice work!

Thank you!

Great tutorial and great craftsmanship! Way to go PATRIOT!👊🏻💪🏻🇺🇸 Love the flags!

The flags do look GREAT!!! Bravo!!! I'd suggest at least one or two more: (1) the 15 star-15 stripe "Star Spangled Banner" of Fort McHenry and (2) the Grand Union flag -- 13 stripes + the Union Jack which was used for about 1-2 yrs by the American forces before the 13 star Betsy Ross Flag was adopted on June 15, 1777. And of course, noting that you're in NC, you should definitely add the Battle of Guilford Court House Flag.

Nice job.

Good job 👍 thanks

Very nice. Nice n clean

Excellent

This stuff looks like it works great and it's relatively cheap. I think I would go back over the ceiling edges with another set of outside stringers just to make sure the ceiling double stick tape doesn't come loose from the heat over a bunch of years. I know u put in the staples but another strip on the outside would lock this stuff in. Maybe the same on the walls, especially on the sides directly exposed to the sun most of the year since there's plenty of room for them without protruding out past the steel uprights.

Fantastic

Thanks COOP ...

I have a similar building, 2 car garage here in Fl. I haven't bothered insulating it because I just keep my truck and lawn equipment out there, I dont use it as a workshop or anything. I think you may have continual issues with moisture building up inside if you cover it with wood like you said, even with insulation. I would put some vents down by the floor, and up near the ceiling to allow for some air flow to keep moisture to a minimum.

Thank you!!!!!

Love your channel-Great ideas that I’m sure I’ll use in the future. GO PIRATES!

Back in 1979 I bought a brand new van and sometime in January me and five friends decided to go to Harriman State Park and camp out overnight in this metal box well all I have to say is that without insulation a metal box can get so cold if the wind is blowing that you can freeze to death pretty quickly I remember pouring a glass of water and watching it freeze within 4 seconds so obviously it's not just heat that it comes amplified.

Nice job food looks great!?. I thought the 2side tap was crazy but it looks great

I watched about 15 videos of how to insulate a metal building, each with a different method and different materials. And everyone thinks what they did is best. It’s hard for a diy guy like me to decide what to do… Thanks for posting.

Nice go bud!

I did this to my metal building. The trusses in the winter (45 degree Temp) water droplets formed and dropped on floor after we turned on some electric heat. Same in the summer when I ran ac while painting. In the winter I could here the droplets dropping on the triple bubble shield and draining to the eves. My building 60x40 with 14' eves, 20 ' to peak. I lived in my rv inside building for 2 years before installing the vapor barrier triple bubble. So I know I had no roof leaks after build. I put the vapor barrier in 40x20 living area. I now will be removing the vapor barrier triple bubble and the wood framing. I will have closed cell foam 3" thick R factor 18 and they will flash coat top truss run. Good luck on yours.$2000.00 on foam and $4000.00 on vapor barrier, supplies and labor to install and labor to take off.

Nice!!!

Great video I forgot to mention I’m from NC as well

thanks so much your instructions worked well. Building is finished - double bubble- in a 400 sq ft 12 foot high metal building. It took me about a week .. your instructions - and no help from anyone.

Great video. Subscribed

Cool

I was wondering about it staying up without more support. Good job lookin good

Thanks for video I was wondering how I was gonna do this I had a 30x40 put up I just had the builder to insulate the top So I’m gonna insulate the walls