Hi all,
Please point out any rules infractions to this forum newbie and the length of this initial post but i watn to give you experts as much background info as i can so you can help me make my way through the maze of issues around installing new heating and or plumbing, although the plumbing such as it is seems fine - well water comes out the taps
I have recently purchased a small brick and rubble construction cottage in Somerset built circa 1900, the walls seem 18-24" thick. It has 3 rooms on each floor, of which four are about 12'*10' and two are approx 7'*10' all have old sash windows in various states of repair. At some time in the past, obviously a while ago (all failing lath and plaster) a loft conversion was done to create two more 12'*10' rooms on a third floor. All this is under a tiled roof which as far as i can tell has a non breathable membrane under the tiles. As yet i have only been able to spend couple of hours at the property.It has electric supply and i have storage heaters at present keeping things dry.
I plan to put in central heating other than electric but dont know what sort yet so my strategy so far is to rip out the lath and plaster from the loft, insulate between the rafters with Kingspan K7 and then over the top of that with k18. Repair, double glaze/draught proof all the sash windows and doors. Then run the storage heaters for next winter to get some real feeling of how many Kw's it take to keep the place to the temps we want to run it at. I think i would like to use the thermal mass of the walls to keep the place warm in winter and cool in summer and dont want to loose space insulating the inside of the walls if i can help it.
Then i can start to decide on oil/lpg/wood chip/pellet /gshp etc (no gas in the village)
Any thought from you experts on my plans much appreciated.
cheers
steve
Oh i should probably say each of the four main rooms has a fireplace and flue so i plan some kind of wood burner/open fire in each of those and a separate flue reputedly runs to the kitchen though i could not find it in the time i had.
Please point out any rules infractions to this forum newbie and the length of this initial post but i watn to give you experts as much background info as i can so you can help me make my way through the maze of issues around installing new heating and or plumbing, although the plumbing such as it is seems fine - well water comes out the taps
I have recently purchased a small brick and rubble construction cottage in Somerset built circa 1900, the walls seem 18-24" thick. It has 3 rooms on each floor, of which four are about 12'*10' and two are approx 7'*10' all have old sash windows in various states of repair. At some time in the past, obviously a while ago (all failing lath and plaster) a loft conversion was done to create two more 12'*10' rooms on a third floor. All this is under a tiled roof which as far as i can tell has a non breathable membrane under the tiles. As yet i have only been able to spend couple of hours at the property.It has electric supply and i have storage heaters at present keeping things dry.
I plan to put in central heating other than electric but dont know what sort yet so my strategy so far is to rip out the lath and plaster from the loft, insulate between the rafters with Kingspan K7 and then over the top of that with k18. Repair, double glaze/draught proof all the sash windows and doors. Then run the storage heaters for next winter to get some real feeling of how many Kw's it take to keep the place to the temps we want to run it at. I think i would like to use the thermal mass of the walls to keep the place warm in winter and cool in summer and dont want to loose space insulating the inside of the walls if i can help it.
Then i can start to decide on oil/lpg/wood chip/pellet /gshp etc (no gas in the village)
Any thought from you experts on my plans much appreciated.
cheers
steve
Oh i should probably say each of the four main rooms has a fireplace and flue so i plan some kind of wood burner/open fire in each of those and a separate flue reputedly runs to the kitchen though i could not find it in the time i had.
