Quote, Says it all really....had my entire loft completed within two days.
Suppose so, but I'm doing two vaulted rooms with flying beams, a bathroom, the upstairs landing, a walk in wardrobe and three nasty crawl in cupboards. Plus all the surrounding stud walls on he perimeter.
Nothing is straight as the house was built in the 20's and most panels also have a hip angle to contend with.
The rafters are not parallel, they are badly warped and covered with soot as there is no roofing felt... I'm also having to crawl behind the walls that I have chosen to leave intact and cut in the Celotex. In places I can only work on my tummy its so tight.
Some time has been spent building new stud walls as the original perimiter walls were plasterboard on 11/2 by 3/4 economy batterns... Im putting in 2 by 4's, lining the back with 75mm celotex, and then filling with 100mm of my 50mm+50mm sandwhich.
All of this is being done on days off from work etc.
theres no way precut panels could be fitted without further cutting on most of every edge. Its easier for me to work with the hand saw so I can follow the wonkey guidelines.
I still think in my situation a circular saw will fill the air with dust, the handsaw cuts a very fine slot. As I said the dust is now the major problem, I'm pretty ill due to the s***te respirator as I was fitting out in those crawlspaces.
I think the original loft conversion firm did the job in two days too! ... the b*****r simply diddnt bother to do the insulation and plasterboarded onto the rafters directly under the tiles.
Mike