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I want to improve my roof insulation without getting over complicated about it.
The house is a 1980 3 bed terrace. The roof space is felted and tiled so it is all quite clean up there. It has insulation between the joists.
All I was going to do was to lay 200mm cheap something across the joists. It is part boarded and I was a bit stuck with this until I saw some insulated chipboard panels in B&Q today. They look easier and sturdier than the wobbly stilts with panels on top although more expensive. I only need a small area, Christmas stuff mostly. I'll board a path to the tank and insulate over the top of it, it has something already. These insulated boards will make getting into the loft from the loft ladder much easier.
3 Questions
1) I can't see any problems with this but people seem to make the whole thing complicated.
2) There are vents from the upstairs ceilings into the roof. I don't know why but presumably if I made little plasterboard tunnels through the insulation for them they would be fine.
3) The wiring for ceiling lights is presumably fixed to the joists. Do I need to make plasterboard structures round them through the insulation? They only have a low powered bulb hanging on them so I can't imagine there is any heating effect at all.
The house is a 1980 3 bed terrace. The roof space is felted and tiled so it is all quite clean up there. It has insulation between the joists.
All I was going to do was to lay 200mm cheap something across the joists. It is part boarded and I was a bit stuck with this until I saw some insulated chipboard panels in B&Q today. They look easier and sturdier than the wobbly stilts with panels on top although more expensive. I only need a small area, Christmas stuff mostly. I'll board a path to the tank and insulate over the top of it, it has something already. These insulated boards will make getting into the loft from the loft ladder much easier.
3 Questions
1) I can't see any problems with this but people seem to make the whole thing complicated.
2) There are vents from the upstairs ceilings into the roof. I don't know why but presumably if I made little plasterboard tunnels through the insulation for them they would be fine.
3) The wiring for ceiling lights is presumably fixed to the joists. Do I need to make plasterboard structures round them through the insulation? They only have a low powered bulb hanging on them so I can't imagine there is any heating effect at all.