Hi All,
We are spending our first winter in our 1950's ex-council property and we have a very cold downstairs WC and utility room which I'd like to insulate.
The rooms have a solid concrete floor and solid masonry walls (which I'm going to dryline; and I'm going to insulate and plaster the underside of the concrete flat roof too) but I also want to insulate the floor and lay some floor tiles.
Any advice anyone has for a project such as this would be much appreciated but inaprticular can anyone advise a suitable type of insulation (I don't know if its better to use a plywood faced PIR that is glued to the floor and tiled over or to build a basic timber frame on the floor, insulate between the battens and lay chipboard/plywood on top to be tiled over?). The insulation would probably only be 30mm (ish) thick so I don't know if it will make any difference.
Has anyone done anything like this before? Did it work??
I would hate to go through this time and expense for no noticable improvement!!
Thanks in advance guys!
Dan.
We are spending our first winter in our 1950's ex-council property and we have a very cold downstairs WC and utility room which I'd like to insulate.
The rooms have a solid concrete floor and solid masonry walls (which I'm going to dryline; and I'm going to insulate and plaster the underside of the concrete flat roof too) but I also want to insulate the floor and lay some floor tiles.
Any advice anyone has for a project such as this would be much appreciated but inaprticular can anyone advise a suitable type of insulation (I don't know if its better to use a plywood faced PIR that is glued to the floor and tiled over or to build a basic timber frame on the floor, insulate between the battens and lay chipboard/plywood on top to be tiled over?). The insulation would probably only be 30mm (ish) thick so I don't know if it will make any difference.
Has anyone done anything like this before? Did it work??
I would hate to go through this time and expense for no noticable improvement!!
Thanks in advance guys!
Dan.