What trade- celotex install

[bluebaron]

ive largely finished installing celotex in my vaulted loft space but getting it to fit into the hipped roof is proving hard.

What trade would normally do this? The angles would lean me towards a chippie or else maybe a plasterer?

 

[John D v2.0]

I'd have thought if it's just cutting and pushing in a general labourer could do it. What exactly is making it hard in your case? Low headroom or matching up the pieces with the timber? Or stopping it falling out?

 

[bluebaron]

It's a vaulted hipped ceiling so the pieces are like the bow of a ship plus I need to cut around plasterboard battens and tuck in behind! Nightmare been at it all day and was wasting so much at £65 a sheet!

 

[noseall]

The compound cuts up a hip blade are always the most awkward and least accessible and should be done prior to any of the other bits. Its a case of cutting bits and shoving them in then doing the easier more accessible bits of the same bay.

 

[bluebaron]

Maybe that's where I'm falling down, trying to do too large a piece. Was worried that smaller pieces would have too many gaps and defeat the purpose of doing it in the first place!

I'll have another go in a few days and move onto something else for a while.

Thanks

 

[noseall]

Maybe that's where I'm falling down, trying to do too large a piece.

Get yourself some duct tape and some ex-foam.

 

[John D v2.0]

Yeah I was going to say expanding foam will save you from anything.
My tip is never use the one shot cans, always use the gun grade foam, otherwise you'll get it everywhere!

 

[John D v2.0]

PS 65 quid a sheet is theft, what are you using, 200mm? I paid about 30 quid each from wickes last time, admittedly it was only 100mm because it was for a floor.

 

[noseall]

What I do (with the hip compound cuts) is rest a piece of Celotex with one end on the floor and hold the other end aloft at roughly the same pitch as the roof. I then position the saw at the angle of the hip blade and start sawing. I then cut off selective pieces that will slot in to the crook of the hip and then wedge them in with the more accessible pieces.

You'll get the hang of it. The trick is not to get too greedy with the size.