Fitting Insulation To Roof

In summer conservatories are roasting hot and in winter freezing cold.

Fitting insulation to roof.

The process is more tricky than installing foil insulation during the construction of a property but can be undertaken if need be. The materials used to insulate under the roof include batts of mineral or glass wool insulation held in place by battens of wood attached to and across the rafters. If playback doesn t begin shortly try restarting your device. Is it better to fit plasterboard or upvc cladding internally.

Rigid foam also does a better job of stopping air flow as long as it s carefully sealed at the edges. Just like you would do on a pitched roof you start from the bottom and go up if you install horizontally or start high and roll down if you install vertically. Piling up pieces of rigid foam. Fitting the sheet insulation to locate the sheet insulation between the rafters while ensuring the air gap behind timber battens are first screwed to the sides of the rafters.

When you finish with one layer cut the to the length and start with the next. The downside of above rafter insulation is that it raises the height of the roof and may have aesthetic consequences. The current trend is for a warm roof where insulation is installed between the rafters thereby keeping the roof timbers warm. Apply tension when stapling the insulation to the battens at intervals of 50 to 100 mm.

The first step is to select and calculate the type and amount of insulation that you need which we cover in a separate project here. On new build or replacement pitched roofs the ideal build up would be insulation fitted over and then between the rafters giving a big boost for airtightness image credit. Fitting loft insulation is a fantastic way to reduce your heating bill and improve your level of comfort especially in winter. In essence retrofitting is a way to install insulation in the roof walls and floors of a building after it has been built.

One of the most common insulation projects in a home is now insulating a conservatory roof. The ideal time to install insulation is when re roofing as fitting insulation above the rafters is the best technical solution. Making it a completely wasted room. Use battens which have been treated with preservative the simplest way is to purchase tanalised roofing battens which are usually held as standard products by most timber merchants.