Hi all,
We bought a house with a single skin garage converted into a bedroom w/ensuite (not sure when it was done, less than 10 years ago certainly) - the inner walls are studded with insulated plasterboard.
We are replacing a cheap jacuzzi bath from the ensuite where it currently sits under the window of an external wall.
I'm keen to properly seal and insulate the void underneath the new bath (for one thing, keep the bathwater insulated), and because a lot of drafts/bugs find their way thru the existing... but I'm wondering if I seal under the bath will I be making a damp problem further down the line, given lack of a decent cavity?
The conversion in general does seem to suffer a fair amount of moisture/damp (a cheap moisture trap fills quite easily within weeks) - I've not looked into that much but suspect they didn't damp proof the garage floor very well.
I'm going to throwdown some tanking slurry on the bathroom floor and level with screed as it's being tiled so that may help address any rising moisture issues from the ground.
Is it worth me installing a small 2" (screened) vent behind the bath, say 1-2' above ground level to allow any moisture out should moisture find it's way into the bath void or is that overkill?
We bought a house with a single skin garage converted into a bedroom w/ensuite (not sure when it was done, less than 10 years ago certainly) - the inner walls are studded with insulated plasterboard.
We are replacing a cheap jacuzzi bath from the ensuite where it currently sits under the window of an external wall.
I'm keen to properly seal and insulate the void underneath the new bath (for one thing, keep the bathwater insulated), and because a lot of drafts/bugs find their way thru the existing... but I'm wondering if I seal under the bath will I be making a damp problem further down the line, given lack of a decent cavity?
The conversion in general does seem to suffer a fair amount of moisture/damp (a cheap moisture trap fills quite easily within weeks) - I've not looked into that much but suspect they didn't damp proof the garage floor very well.
I'm going to throwdown some tanking slurry on the bathroom floor and level with screed as it's being tiled so that may help address any rising moisture issues from the ground.
Is it worth me installing a small 2" (screened) vent behind the bath, say 1-2' above ground level to allow any moisture out should moisture find it's way into the bath void or is that overkill?