The rules with an old house seem to be: Gypsum is bad. Plasterboard is bad. Modern vapourproof insulation is bad. None of that celotex or kingspan stuff. It all adds to moisture imperviousness, and these old houses need to breathe. If you don’t let the moisture out, your timbers rot.
We needed to create walls and insulate the space up in the loft, so we bought a boatload of this stuff – woodfibre board. It came on a pallet, it’s light, dusty, fits up the stairs into the loft, and was pretty easy to cut and fit.
After a few hours of working with it, I think we got pretty good at fanangling it into corners and around tricky wonky beams and whatnot.
from this…
to this..
We’re quite pleased with that. The really annoying bit is that we ran out of those fancy plastic washers that stop the screwheads pulling through the material, leaving the job unfinished.. That bit on the left on the next image- it’ll have to wait for next weekend.
ran out of washers..
Once that’s finished, we get it lime plastered and that’s that. Nice warm breathable walls. And no squirrels.
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