Wall insulation
Discussion
PIR is much more effective, with the effect that your buildup can be thinner:
wall —> vertical damp proof membrane —> treated timber batten —> PIR —> board
Make sure you can find long enough players board screws
To do it properly, tape the joints of the PIR for vapour control or use a separate membrane.
When it comes to fixing the batten, don’t mess around drilling holes, using plugs, lining it all up: drill all the way through the batten and into the wall in one go before using hammer in fixings (they look like a long screw with rawlplug already attached). It is much quicker, assuming of course the walls are all nice and flat.
if you’re doing it by the book/to meet building regs, the likes of kingspan and reticel have calculators for performance and diagrams etc.
wall —> vertical damp proof membrane —> treated timber batten —> PIR —> board
Make sure you can find long enough players board screws
To do it properly, tape the joints of the PIR for vapour control or use a separate membrane.
When it comes to fixing the batten, don’t mess around drilling holes, using plugs, lining it all up: drill all the way through the batten and into the wall in one go before using hammer in fixings (they look like a long screw with rawlplug already attached). It is much quicker, assuming of course the walls are all nice and flat.
if you’re doing it by the book/to meet building regs, the likes of kingspan and reticel have calculators for performance and diagrams etc.
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