After a bit of advice or comments on what I'm thinking of doing:
Recently bought a large victorian terrace that hasn't been touched for a good few years. There's a sizeable draught coming up through the ground level floors. The house has a double cellar & a crawl space at the back end underneath the kitchen.
the plaster on the cellar ceiling is the original horsehair plaster & has a few gaping holes & non-existent in places. I was thinking of ripping all the original ceiling plaster off to expose the joists. Then getting rockwool, filling in between the joists with this & then nailing up chipboard or some sort of membrane to keep it all in place.
does this seem like an ok idea? Any issues? - My only thought is that this would stop any ventilation between the joists, is this ok to do.
Also I'm pretty skint so whatever I do it needs to be on the frugal side.
Recently bought a large victorian terrace that hasn't been touched for a good few years. There's a sizeable draught coming up through the ground level floors. The house has a double cellar & a crawl space at the back end underneath the kitchen.
the plaster on the cellar ceiling is the original horsehair plaster & has a few gaping holes & non-existent in places. I was thinking of ripping all the original ceiling plaster off to expose the joists. Then getting rockwool, filling in between the joists with this & then nailing up chipboard or some sort of membrane to keep it all in place.
does this seem like an ok idea? Any issues? - My only thought is that this would stop any ventilation between the joists, is this ok to do.
Also I'm pretty skint so whatever I do it needs to be on the frugal side.
