Friday, December 21, 2007
Roof insulation
I've made a good start on the insulation. I really hope this stuff works because every morning this week it's been at least -3oC and not got much warmer during the day. A bucket or water in the house had even frozen over. Brrr.
The insulation was fairly easy to put up providing you have a reliable staple gun. The cheap stapler I originally bought ended up in the bin. It's a real pain balanced up on a platform in the rafters with one had free and then the staple gun jams or mis-fires. New staple gun in hand and things were a lot easier. The insulation is fixed to the rafters, which leaves an air gap between the tiles and the insulation. Around each of the A-frames and purlins I've put metal tracks to take the supports for the plasterboard.
I quite liked this insulation compared to rockwool, even though it's more expensive, there none of the horrible dust and fibres and it's much thinner so more of the old carpentry gets exposed.
One side upstairs complete, now on to the other.
| 12:54:49 PM
Roof insulation
