Hi,
Hope someone can help me with my dilemma.
I want to lay a laminate floor in my kitchen/diner. It's a timber floor, with the kitchen of a flat I also own beneath. The flat is currently empty, and will be refurbished when I've finished the house!
I want to insulate the floor as well as possible, mainly for sound insulation. I had planned to lay foil backed underlay (3mm?) followed by those green wood fibre boards, then 3mm wallboard I've got hanging about to provide some stiffness, and finally the laminate.
After reading some of the posts on here, I now have my reservations about the foil underlay. Is this likely to cause me condensation problems, particularly whilst the flat is empty & unheated? There is currently plenty of ventilation, due to large holes in the flat ceiling, but this will not ultimately be the case!
I already had concerns over an apparent lack of airbricks, as 2 walls of the flat kitchen are 'underground', and the building is pebbledashed, with apparently no ventilation through the stone walls.
Grateful for any advice.
Cheers,
joe91
Hope someone can help me with my dilemma.
I want to lay a laminate floor in my kitchen/diner. It's a timber floor, with the kitchen of a flat I also own beneath. The flat is currently empty, and will be refurbished when I've finished the house!
I want to insulate the floor as well as possible, mainly for sound insulation. I had planned to lay foil backed underlay (3mm?) followed by those green wood fibre boards, then 3mm wallboard I've got hanging about to provide some stiffness, and finally the laminate.
After reading some of the posts on here, I now have my reservations about the foil underlay. Is this likely to cause me condensation problems, particularly whilst the flat is empty & unheated? There is currently plenty of ventilation, due to large holes in the flat ceiling, but this will not ultimately be the case!
I already had concerns over an apparent lack of airbricks, as 2 walls of the flat kitchen are 'underground', and the building is pebbledashed, with apparently no ventilation through the stone walls.
Grateful for any advice.
Cheers,
joe91