Hi,
I have decided that my turn of the century mid terrace house will be cold in the winter! We have ground floor, first floor and then rooms in the roof with flat ceiling (loft space above) made of lathe and plaster ceiling, then part of the ceiling is sloping - again lathe and plaster with roughly 100mm deep rafters, then the timber stud walls with a void behind them to the external masonry wall.
My idea for the loft space is to leave whatever thin insulation is there and roll out 150mm loft insulation with another 100mm layer at right angles. I do not want to board it out or anything (don't want to add more weight to what i'm sure is over spanned joists!) so will just literally lay the insulation and leave it.
On the sloping ceilings, i don't really want to disturb the exisitng lathe and plaster as it will be a lot of work and very VERY dirty. What is the best way to get up to or close to building regs? The roof is just rafters with ba\ttens and then slates - no felt or membrane or boarding.
On the walls i have the same dilemma - either take off the lathe & plaster, then insulate and then board and skim - but the dirty job of removing the lathe & plaster worries me!!! hahaha.
Thanks for any help any of you mightbe able to provide me....
Eddy
I have decided that my turn of the century mid terrace house will be cold in the winter! We have ground floor, first floor and then rooms in the roof with flat ceiling (loft space above) made of lathe and plaster ceiling, then part of the ceiling is sloping - again lathe and plaster with roughly 100mm deep rafters, then the timber stud walls with a void behind them to the external masonry wall.
My idea for the loft space is to leave whatever thin insulation is there and roll out 150mm loft insulation with another 100mm layer at right angles. I do not want to board it out or anything (don't want to add more weight to what i'm sure is over spanned joists!) so will just literally lay the insulation and leave it.
On the sloping ceilings, i don't really want to disturb the exisitng lathe and plaster as it will be a lot of work and very VERY dirty. What is the best way to get up to or close to building regs? The roof is just rafters with ba\ttens and then slates - no felt or membrane or boarding.
On the walls i have the same dilemma - either take off the lathe & plaster, then insulate and then board and skim - but the dirty job of removing the lathe & plaster worries me!!! hahaha.
Thanks for any help any of you mightbe able to provide me....
Eddy