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danroach
Hiya.
I wondered if I might get your take on a slight problem I have.
Recently I have had a garden studio built – timber building, concrete floor, insulated with Kingspan and lined inside with 6mm ply. The whole thing looks fantastic. However, in a moment of anti-genius, I decided to leave the ceiling unlined. I thought it’d look better and it’d give me more height in the studio itself (as per pic **image on side for some odd reason**).
However…
Since completion, there has been a particularly acrid smell in the studio. It seems to be aggravated on warm days which is what is leading me to believe its something to do with the exposed timbers in the ceiling construction. I’ve painted the walls and sealed the floor with concrete floor paint; at first I thought it could have been the floor but it doesn’t seem to be coming from there. I’ve had a sniff of the exposed timbers and they do indeed have a pretty acidic odor to them, but I didn’t know whether this was due to warm air rising and this acrid smell collecting at the top of the room.
I wondered if anyone had come across a similar situation? Yes, I know it was foolish to leave the ceiling ‘unfinished’ so to speak (builder coming to insulate and board over in the next few weeks) but hopefully once covered over it will stop the place reeking so much – the space is almost unusable at the moment.
Best and thanks in anticipation,
Dan
I wondered if I might get your take on a slight problem I have.
Recently I have had a garden studio built – timber building, concrete floor, insulated with Kingspan and lined inside with 6mm ply. The whole thing looks fantastic. However, in a moment of anti-genius, I decided to leave the ceiling unlined. I thought it’d look better and it’d give me more height in the studio itself (as per pic **image on side for some odd reason**).
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However…
Since completion, there has been a particularly acrid smell in the studio. It seems to be aggravated on warm days which is what is leading me to believe its something to do with the exposed timbers in the ceiling construction. I’ve painted the walls and sealed the floor with concrete floor paint; at first I thought it could have been the floor but it doesn’t seem to be coming from there. I’ve had a sniff of the exposed timbers and they do indeed have a pretty acidic odor to them, but I didn’t know whether this was due to warm air rising and this acrid smell collecting at the top of the room.
I wondered if anyone had come across a similar situation? Yes, I know it was foolish to leave the ceiling ‘unfinished’ so to speak (builder coming to insulate and board over in the next few weeks) but hopefully once covered over it will stop the place reeking so much – the space is almost unusable at the moment.
Best and thanks in anticipation,
Dan