I am getting ready to pour my a slab, and am trying to decide wether the 2500 dollars of underslab insulation is really going to be value for money. I have built an icf house to the rafters, one side has grade to 7-8 ft and it slopes down on the other side to about 4 1/2 ft to 5ft to bottom of footing at the other end. I live in saskatchewan canada which does have a cold winter. I have also added 2 inch rigid foam sloping away on the outside of the house in the areas that grade is lower. I have heard everything from I wont have much heat loss through the slab, based on icf walls etc, to people saying they wouldn`t pour a slab without insulation. I am just trying to dertermine if the 2500 is going to have much payback, yea I spent the extra on icf but this is crunch time and if it really isn`t going to do much then should I consider just a reflective barrier or nothing at all
Thanks Nathan