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Insulating question...

  • 15-03-2018 9:35pm
    #1
    hamguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52 ✭✭


    Hello, I'm live in timber frame house, its about 15 year old I think.
    The downstairs "garage room" is baltic!!! Our house was built with the garage room converted.
    But Its really cold. Double glazed windows - (no draughts). My question is - can you retro-fit cavity wall insulation into a wall cavity on a timber frame house? (the spray bead type).

    The wall consist of >external brickwork>cavity>plasterboard.
    Not sure if there is insulation - I'm guessing there is. But its not really doing its job.
    Any advice?
    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,888 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    any wall vents that you can take off internally?

    is large under another room above or is it on the side?

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #3
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Have you put a layer of insulation and a floor over the concrete? Is the ceiling insulated (assuming it is not within the house)? Those were the main things that improved our freezing garage room.


  • #4
    Danny Donut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Danny Donut


    We lived in a timber frame house in the UK. There was no cavity. The wall was plaster board/ timber frame/ insulation / brick cladding.

    As looksee says you could look at insulating the floor, roof space or adding airboard to the walls. I'd be inclined to talk to an ezpert though before you spend big bucks.

    Good Luck.


  • #5
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Also, are you sure that the external wall(s) of the garage are built in the same way as the rest of the house?


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