Starting the day off with cold floors is enough to make anyone irritable, especially in the winter. Winters in Indianapolis are cold enough already, so having cold floors on top of everything is just salt in the wound. If you have your HVAC system set high but your floors are still cold, then you need to check your crawl space. There’s a chance that the crawl space itself is not properly insulated, which means that the cold air from your crawl space is pushing out the warm air that could have otherwise heated your floors. Hot air is a lot lighter than cold air. Due to the density, when cold air enters the crawl space during the winter, the dense, cold air pushes the hot air upwards. Your floor is cold because the cold air in the crawl space and around the home is cooling it down. All the hot air that’s being blown out by your HVAC system isn’t staying in your living area. Instead, it’s rising upwards towards your ceiling. Because your HVAC system has to work extra to accommodate the incoming cold air from the crawl space, the energy efficiency in your home is worse than it should be. To avoid cold floors and high energy bills, you need to insulate your crawl space. Indiana Foundation Service recommends AquaStop ExTremeBloc, our high-quality insulation panels. Crawl space insulation will block off any path air might take to creep into your home. Instead, it bounces the air around in the crawl space, keeping the area as warm as your floors.