Thursday, May 12, 2005
Glass fibre insulation
Caroline has made excellent progress and finished the floor tiling in the lounge, kitchen and dining room of one of the gites. All the tiles have been laid on the diagonal and grouted. The finished product looks superb.I've been frantically plasterboarding in the other gite to try to get ready for her to start floor tiling the other gite. This gite seems to have more fiddly bits round the windows and doors which has slowed progress. I've been using mortier adhesif (MAP) to stick the board to the window and door returns and lintels. I don't know what mortier adhesif is called in English but it's a white cement type powder that is mixed with water and 'thrown' in blobs onto the back of the plasterboard and then pressed onto the brick/stone surface.
For all the straight walls runs I'm using the metal rail system with a 100mm gap between the stone and the plasterboard filled with 'rigid' glass fibre panels 60cm by 130cm. Working with glass fibre is one of my least favourite jobs as it gets everywhere and is really irrating. I've found the best way to cut the panels is to lay the moisture resistant paper backing face down on a wooden board, press down with a wide staight edge to compress the panel then cut through with a long bladed Stanley knife. The panels are then slotted in between the wall and the plasterboard with the paper facing into the room.
I'm not looking forward to insulating the roof spaces. The 200mm thick rolls are much more difficult to handle and the glass fibres break off much more easily. I would stongly recomment wearing a quality mask when working with the stuff.
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Glass fibre insulation
