Hello
I am about to embark on a pretty major job just wondered if you could shed any experience.....
To take things from the start we moved into a dormer style chalet house. In the winter we noticed that the rooms upstairs were very cold and in the summer baking hot. We can also hear a lot of ambient noise outside even though windows are shut etc. the heating was very poor aswell with the upstairs being on a single pipe system and downstairs hanging off this on a 2 pipe system. We have just had all this rectified and a new combi boiler installed etc.
I had an old aerial socket on one of the rooms upstairs off the wall to look into the cavity of the dormer wool and there is literally no insulltion in there. there is also a big draft. i can also see into the dormer flat room through a little gap in the loft and again no insullation.
my first question is, is this normal for a house that was built in the 60's?
the second question would be is there any type of insualltion on the soutside of the walls / ceiling?
What i plan to do is rip the inside of the dormer walls off and shove in 60mm of celotex insullation. i would go more, but this is all that will fit. I also plan to rip down the internal ceilings and install 100mm in between the joists. i plan to friction fit it and seal it all with tape expandable foam etc......i then plant to re plasterboard and get a plasterer in to skim the ceilings and walls
is there anything i need to take into consideration when i do this? I am just a basic DIY'er so this is pretty massive for me to do.....
Thanks in advance
I am about to embark on a pretty major job just wondered if you could shed any experience.....
To take things from the start we moved into a dormer style chalet house. In the winter we noticed that the rooms upstairs were very cold and in the summer baking hot. We can also hear a lot of ambient noise outside even though windows are shut etc. the heating was very poor aswell with the upstairs being on a single pipe system and downstairs hanging off this on a 2 pipe system. We have just had all this rectified and a new combi boiler installed etc.
I had an old aerial socket on one of the rooms upstairs off the wall to look into the cavity of the dormer wool and there is literally no insulltion in there. there is also a big draft. i can also see into the dormer flat room through a little gap in the loft and again no insullation.
my first question is, is this normal for a house that was built in the 60's?
the second question would be is there any type of insualltion on the soutside of the walls / ceiling?
What i plan to do is rip the inside of the dormer walls off and shove in 60mm of celotex insullation. i would go more, but this is all that will fit. I also plan to rip down the internal ceilings and install 100mm in between the joists. i plan to friction fit it and seal it all with tape expandable foam etc......i then plant to re plasterboard and get a plasterer in to skim the ceilings and walls
is there anything i need to take into consideration when i do this? I am just a basic DIY'er so this is pretty massive for me to do.....
Thanks in advance