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After some advice regarding insulation between floors in a full refurb of our recently purchased house. Under the floors upstairs would it be suitable to lay 100mm of rockwool between joists? Or is it recommended to use an insulation with acoustic properties too? Downstairs is a mixture of...

Hi guys. I want to move a rad from one side of the room to another side of the room. This is downstaris I will be using 10mm Microbore. Under the floor is cold & damp. Should I cover the pipes with Pipe insulation, or would the pipe's help a bit under floor ? Would I loose loads of...

I am looking to lay under floor heating in my bathroom. The floor is just wooden floor boards and I plan to lay insulation/backer board, screw down and then lay the loose electric cable. I will then tile with a porcelain tile on the floor. My question is what is the recommended thickness...

Having my suspended floors insulated The chaps that are doing the insulation are removing a few boards and then crawling underneath to place the insulation between the joists However the installers have not mentioned a word about adding a vapour barrier and I'd like to know whether it is...

Hey guys and gals, I'm thinking about insulating under the floor boards in our bungalow. Theres about a 12" void under there, and there are brick vents all around the outside. With the bare floorboards in the hallway and front room, it is very cold and i think the heating is on more than...

We have built an extension and had the base built for us ~ the usual layers of hardcore, sand, DPC, rigid insulation, more DPC and poured concrete. Because we want a 'traditional' timber floor, we allowed for joists and floorboards. At last inspection BCO said we needed air-bricks to ventilate...

i have an old 1930s house single brick wall. Under the ground floor there is cavity about four feet deep and covers all the ground floor .The room is carpeted and i dont wont to take it all up any suggestions? The air bricks venting the space are about off the ground so it is possable to drill...

Hi, I am putting down new engineered flooring over existing floorboards and I am thinking of insulating between the joists using mineral wool suspended with some chicken wire or plastic similar. I have two questions, will it make much difference if I am already putting underlay and another...

I am decorating an unused 1st floor bedroom and see that I can easily access under the floor boards. As this bedroom is unlikely to be used in the near future, could I insulate between floorboards and ceiling to make the dining room below hold it's heat for longer. Have some of that metalized...

If a private house has a ground floor extensin built , living room , shower room ect . and the floors are solid eg screeded , under building regs would celafelt type insulation need to be installed on the concrete base prior to the floor being screeded ???

Hello All, Have a room with concrete floor and we plan to raise the floor by couple cm using self levelling compound. Question is, is it worth putting some kind of insulation board under screed and if yes what should we use? Thanks

Hi Everyone I posted this in the flooring forum but figured it might be more appropriate here. We moved into a 1920's house a year ago and over the winter have been aware of how much draught comes up into the house from a fairly large crawl space under the house I'd like to insulate down...

I have a large garage and cellar under my house. In the cellar, you can look up and see the underside of the flooring and all the joists. Great for plumbing and wiring mods, but not so good for insulation. At some point, I may insert insulation material up between the joists, but not until all...

Hi All This may sound a daft question but can i use loft insulation to insulate inbetween my ground and first floor? I am currently rennovating my 1970's semi and am taking the floor boards up in each room to run cable etc, so i thought it would be practical to put some insulation in there...

what's the best way to put insulation UNDER the wooden stairs of our old house as it leads down into the cellar? (we're losing a fair amount of heat as the cold air slowly sweeps up through our bare wooden floors) thanks in advance. CM

We have a dining room floor that is concrete and lower than the kitchen floor. We want to raise it with joists, board over, and lay insulation under the new floor. Is this possible or has there got to be airflow?

Hello I am doing my bathroom floor but don't want to raise it too much. I plan on fitting loose wire underfloor heating and want to use some insulation board as well. My question is, can I lay one of the thicker insulation boards directly onto the joists? The floor boards are all uneven and...

I have a suspended timber floor - onto which is being laid an engineered wood floor, probably one of the 15mm deep types and the skirtings are being fitted after the floor is laid. Under the floor is quite a deep void and I am considering laying rigid foam insulation between the joists whilst...

Is std loft insulation also suitable for sound insulation under the floors Paul :D

Looking at having wet underfloor heating done in our bathroom, but all the floorboards are tongue & groove, glued down etc. Would it be hugely detrimental to insulate under the floor boards, then lay the pipes in their channeled housings on top of the floorboards, having the floorboards...