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That's with dot and dab plasterboard as well
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I would LOVE to have our living room floor insulated, it's a suspended wooden floor (house is c1915) and until we put some sort of insulation between the boards when the sun was in the right place you could see daylight through them.
Can I find anyone to do it? can I ****... nobody wants to touch it, seems basically impossible and that is definitely a huge source of heat loss in the winter.
Also, in other "done by cowboys" news I asked someone to quote for cavity wall insulation on the kitchen extension, he put a camera in and said no because they'd dumped rubble and rubbish in the gap.
Can I find anyone to do it? can I ****... nobody wants to touch it, seems basically impossible and that is definitely a huge source of heat loss in the winter.
Also, in other "done by cowboys" news I asked someone to quote for cavity wall insulation on the kitchen extension, he put a camera in and said no because they'd dumped rubble and rubbish in the gap.
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It's a miserable job tbf. I would price myself out of doing it if I was a tradesmen.
What? The insultation?
I've been told it's impossible by at least 3 companies which seems mental, we can go to the moon ffs
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Yea I made a thread about floor insulation here a few weeks back as I was looking to do it on my own but decided against it as it is very fiddle to do and time consuming.
Sometimes you can't put a price over time /energy.
I'm already planning to sand down the floorboards in the living room and dining room as soon as all the new cielings, underfloor insulation and plastering is done and that in itself is a hard job for a DIYer.
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Lol - check my threads and you can see my progress doing it. It's just a nightmare as it basically needs a full decorate, and you may as well rewire, and you'll need new floors etc. It's very invasive.
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Floor insulation his on about.
. If you want to insulate your walls, do it from outside, put insulation boards outside and render it
I dunno.... Garden looked pretty ace before...
But yeah nice work @matt100
Or shall we call you matt100k
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Oh yeah it's the floor that's the problem, you can feel a breeze when there's wind.
Respectfully.. are you blind?
The garden was an absolute bombsite, unrecoverable without a fair amount of spend either way.
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Its why people went and added the really simple and comparatively cheap insulation to all floors.
What you ask?
Carpets is the answer.
They created a thermal and draft barrier.
I've gone in circles with my own house, the options for suspended floor seem a bit limited. I'm leaning towards something more drastic like changing to a concrete slab to get the thermal mass required for underfloor heating.
Yeah we got an almost room sized rug with a thermal backing but it's no substitute
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Haha yeah I'm not sure a carpet will beat my 100mm PIR but it certainly may help the draught (a bit).
Respectfully.. are you blind?
The garden was an absolute bombsite, unrecoverable without a fair amount of spend either way.
Lol thought it was obvs it was a joke.
It was a mega transformation.
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Yeah I am just bridging the gap.
I mean its literally the reason why we moved away from bare floorboards to having floor coverings.
Agree PIR will be far better but didn't exist not that many years ago.
Some of the ways to suspend glass fibre were interesting!
My floors are interesting. They are a slab covered in polystyrene with a screed on top. No idea how deep the poly is. I only know as when I was doing the kitchen/diner the other year I had the the skirtings all off and in one corner the screed wasn't quite up to the corner where I uncovered.
No idea how efficient they are but they feel cool to the touch in summer and winter. Certainly not cold as such.
Just reminded me talking about draughts i need to put a non return behind my cooker hood. Found out last year that the wind can push through!
The one I replaced that the builder had fitted it didn't seem to as it was about 80% blocked by them drilling the hole in the wrong place and having to force the pipe in.
Lol no sorry, maybe I'm a bit sensitive with those suggesting I should have left everything when I honestly wish I could.
We definitely got into "well if we're doing this lets do it right" mode but it was all also fairly reluctant given we thought we'd bought something that only required decoration.
That’s normal and the BAU of modern building, it should be 50-100+mm depending on when it was built.
The screed on top sits within the thermal envelope of the house and is insulated on all sides by vanity walls and the polystyrene underneath. It acts as both a thermal mass to level out the heat in the property and to spread the loads across the polystyrene to not crush it.
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Hmm. I fitted a reducer for my hoods outrageous 150mm outlet and it blocks the non return so I didn't fit it. Maybe I should refit one.Yeah I am just bridging the gap.
I mean its literally the reason why we moved away from bare floorboards to having floor coverings.
Agree PIR will be far better but didn't exist not that many years ago.
Some of the ways to suspend glass fibre were interesting!
My floors are interesting. They are a slab covered in polystyrene with a screed on top. No idea how deep the poly is. I only know as when I was doing the kitchen/diner the other year I had the the skirtings all off and in one corner the screed wasn't quite up to the corner where I uncovered.
No idea how efficient they are but they feel cool to the touch in summer and winter. Certainly not cold as such.
Just reminded me talking about draughts i need to put a non return behind my cooker hood. Found out last year that the wind can push through!
The one I replaced that the builder had fitted it didn't seem to as it was about 80% blocked by them drilling the hole in the wrong place and having to force the pipe in.
When we buy our final home, I'd definitely like to spend the money on getting it exactly how I want it. The difficulty with the current one is not sure - it's big enough and reasonably nice in a good area, but sure would love more garden, a double garage, higher ceilings, more light inside. On the other hand if we stay here we're mortgage free in 4 years and can start investing in bringing forward retirement. Difficult.
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It's a shame you've spanked 100k and not addressed the insulation tho?