Insulating my ancient living room

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Shame you can keep some of that old stone exposed, but I completely understand why you can’t.

There’s plenty of nice stone outside, we’ll have to be content with that.

 

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(3 months later…)

I have a load of plasterboard coming tomorrow, so I thought I’d better post some photos before this gets hidden forever.

This is the same right-hand window as before, with insulated studwork in place. It doesn’t look as smart as my previous efforts, because I’m re-using the wonky old timber and because I’ve inserted the insulation from behind, which makes it look like it has gaps around the insulation - it really doesn’t, see previous photos.

The frames feel nice and solid since I have secured them to each other half way up. Without that support, the 50mm timber is quite bouncy.

The insulation narrows from 100mm to 50mm at the windows. Some years ago when I was feeling rich I bough a few sheets of aerogel fleece to try in places where there’s not much space available; I’ve used some of that here behind the 50mm wood fibre.

Below the window I’ve built new 100mm studwork, and I’ve used strips of aerogel glued to the back of the studs:

Should be less than 3 months before the next update! I still haven’t shown you the North wall, due to the piles of stuff that are hiding it!