Hi I was wondering how best to go about insulating the floor in my bungalow.
I have a 3 bed detached bungalow. I want to insulate the floors. There is a a concrete slab and it had a timber floor that sat on rows of bricks with gaps between. the bungalow has a double skin brick and block wall and there are air bricks that supply the floor area with air. It was a pre fab and the floorboards were in rafts or cassettes of about 8 boards. I want to take out all the bricks and lay insulation such as kingspan minus bricks, then overboard with ply and lay the old floor cassettes back down again.
I was thinking that I should block off the bricks lay a breathable membrane on the concrete then my kingspan then another layer of membrane then ply and finally floor cassettes.
I want to know if this is the correct way to do things and what insulation and membranes are best to use. cheers, Edd.
I have a 3 bed detached bungalow. I want to insulate the floors. There is a a concrete slab and it had a timber floor that sat on rows of bricks with gaps between. the bungalow has a double skin brick and block wall and there are air bricks that supply the floor area with air. It was a pre fab and the floorboards were in rafts or cassettes of about 8 boards. I want to take out all the bricks and lay insulation such as kingspan minus bricks, then overboard with ply and lay the old floor cassettes back down again.
I was thinking that I should block off the bricks lay a breathable membrane on the concrete then my kingspan then another layer of membrane then ply and finally floor cassettes.
I want to know if this is the correct way to do things and what insulation and membranes are best to use. cheers, Edd.