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what’s the best material for replacing insulation around a furnace?

We are painting our garage. Our house is 25 years old, and the insulation around the furnace (I think) was either asbestos or fiberglass. What is the best insulation material today? We didn’t have any trouble taking off the old stuff, but we don’t know what the best material to get is today. Our furnace is old, but it still works just fine.

Convert garage into bedroom.?

Basically i want to convert a 2 car garage into an extra bedroom as cheaply as possible. Also, since it will be a temporary (about 2-3 year) room, it will eventually be converted back into a garage. It has 2 automatic openers which i plan on keeping in place, removing the hardware that extends into the room itself and drywalling off that end of a garage about 1ft. away from the doors. Also because of a 6-7 inch drop off between the concrete floor itself and the house (it is attached), I want to build a wooden deck that can be covered by insulation and carpet. No need for any plumbing or electrical work, it already has one window which i plan on putting in a window AC unit and using a space heater during the winter. Being in Louisiana our winter is maybe a month anyway. So in the end, the only expenses will come from the drywalling, building of the deck and carpeting. I haven’t measured, but its a typical 2 car garage, i would assume around the 22X22 ft dimensions, give or take 2 feet on each measurement. Me and my dad would be doing it, so costs would be strictly for materials. The garage does have a slope (another reason for the deck) that i would guess to be about 3 inches over the 22 feet, however it starts gradual and gets sharper the further away from the house you get.

How much to install new windows?

I would like to add two new windows to my garage, to bring in light. There are no windows today, so this would involve cutting through the vinyl siding on the outside. The inside of the garage is currently wood stud framing and fiberglass insulation (no drywall). The windows wouldn’t have to open, they would be plain picture windows. How much would this cost, including materials and labor?
Also, who should I approach to have this done? A replacement window company, exterior company, or general contractor?

Help Building A Cat House?

i have an outdoor cat living with me. (shes more of a stray cat) im not able to let her inside or in the garage but she needs some sort of shelter this winter. i want to build her a cat house for the winter. and it needs to be somewhat easy to build.(it gets cold and very snowy where i live). Im not building anything too big, maybe 2″ x 3.5″ x 2″. i need to build her a cat house to keep her warm this winter. I would love to be able to make it out of a transparent material like plexiglass, so that i could see in, and she could see out. The only problem is that im not sure if that will keep her warm enough. Would i need insulation? Then i couldnt see in though. Is there a form of transparent insulation? If its not possible to make her house see through while warm, should i still use plexiglass with insulation or should i use another material along with the insulation. any tips would be helpful.

Thanks
Some one answering made me realize i had written ” instead of ‘. Sorry, just had one of those moments