Our garden contains a summerhouse which looks reasonably solidly built (brick/concerete foundations). Due to age/neglect, the inside walls are looking pretty poor ... they're veneered plywood ... and they've faded in the sun, the varnish is peeling everywhere, and the veneer is coming off in places (mainly under a patch of roof which needed repair ... which is now done).
Anyway, I've been googling and I'm at a loss as the best way to tackle this job. The exterior walls are shiplap and are attached to the stud frame with a vapour barrier between them. While this sounds fine, the vapour barrier looks 20 or 30 years old (a silver foil type thing) and it's sagging in places though it seems to do a relatively good job of keeping rain out.
The walls (which are now mostly taken down) were polystyrene backed plywood (which was veneered) and the ceiling was polystene sheets (with a backing layer of mouse dropping from the looks of things). There's plenty of airflow around the insides as the roof/wall on the back of the summerhouse has no soffit (looks like a deliberate thing ... as if there never was one)
I'd like to insulate and put new walls/ceiling up but I'm unsure of what to do. The reason for insulation is that it has a fireplace and we'd like to use it in winter (in fact, we're likely to use it more in winter than summer).
Anyway, I've been googling and I'm at a loss as the best way to tackle this job. The exterior walls are shiplap and are attached to the stud frame with a vapour barrier between them. While this sounds fine, the vapour barrier looks 20 or 30 years old (a silver foil type thing) and it's sagging in places though it seems to do a relatively good job of keeping rain out.
The walls (which are now mostly taken down) were polystyrene backed plywood (which was veneered) and the ceiling was polystene sheets (with a backing layer of mouse dropping from the looks of things). There's plenty of airflow around the insides as the roof/wall on the back of the summerhouse has no soffit (looks like a deliberate thing ... as if there never was one)
I'd like to insulate and put new walls/ceiling up but I'm unsure of what to do. The reason for insulation is that it has a fireplace and we'd like to use it in winter (in fact, we're likely to use it more in winter than summer).