Hi,
I'm looking for a bit of advice. We have a concrete slab pre-fab garage and I was wondering if you can insulate them - or is it a waste of time to do that?
The roof is asbestos cement, where the roof meets the slabs you can see outside.
Would the roof need insulated too and would any 'open air' parts need to be covered up? E.g where the roof meets the slab and around the garage door?
The concrete slab is 16 inch wide x 77 inch Height, the 'recess' in each slab is 13 inch. There are 14 slabs lengthways and 7 slabs widthways.
If it was worthwhile insulating it, how would I go about doing this? Would I use insulated plasterboard? Or stuff the 'recess' in the slab with insulation and then plasterboard/plywood on top of that? I take it I'd need to attach batons around the concrete slab to attach the plasterboard/plywood to the slab?
Images are here: //www.diynot.com/network/ryiah/albums/6631 - excuse the mess of the garage - it's used for junk just now. I'd like to insulate it because I'm thinking of keeping rabbits in there - I don't want them to be too cold, it reached minus 13 earlier this year!
Thanks in advance
I'm looking for a bit of advice. We have a concrete slab pre-fab garage and I was wondering if you can insulate them - or is it a waste of time to do that?
The roof is asbestos cement, where the roof meets the slabs you can see outside.
Would the roof need insulated too and would any 'open air' parts need to be covered up? E.g where the roof meets the slab and around the garage door?
The concrete slab is 16 inch wide x 77 inch Height, the 'recess' in each slab is 13 inch. There are 14 slabs lengthways and 7 slabs widthways.
If it was worthwhile insulating it, how would I go about doing this? Would I use insulated plasterboard? Or stuff the 'recess' in the slab with insulation and then plasterboard/plywood on top of that? I take it I'd need to attach batons around the concrete slab to attach the plasterboard/plywood to the slab?
Images are here: //www.diynot.com/network/ryiah/albums/6631 - excuse the mess of the garage - it's used for junk just now. I'd like to insulate it because I'm thinking of keeping rabbits in there - I don't want them to be too cold, it reached minus 13 earlier this year!
Thanks in advance