How Do You Build An Insulated Dog House?
Extreme temperatures can make an outside dog miserable and threaten its life and health. Insulating your dog house is one way to assist your outside dog in staying warm during the winter and cool in the summer without resorting to fossil fuel-dependent heating or cooling systems. It is easiest to insulate your dog house during construction. If you are making a wooden dog house with a studded frame and plywood walls, Styrofoam block makes good insulation, when combined with sheathing the inner walls with plywood, masonite, or sheetrock. Cut eight 2-by-4 inch by 2-foot long boards. Cut four 2-by-4 inch by 3-foot long boards. Use 6-inch long wood screws to assemble two of the 2-foot long boards between two of the 3-foot long boards to make a solid wood frame. Repeat this to make the second wall of the dog house frame. Connect the two frames with four 2-by-4 inch by 2-foot long boards. Use 1-by-4 inch boards cut to fit between the top and bottom boards of the frame to make the wall studs.
