{"id":1092,"date":"2013-09-04T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:09:25","slug":"insulation-where-space-is-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/insulation-where-space-is-tight\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea for Insulation Where Space is Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top of the stairs to attic has a landing with an old dormer window.\u00a0 Head height at the top of the stairs is an issue as is the ceiling of the dormer. The cheeks of the dormer are also short on space.<\/p>\n<p>The solution I\u2019m trying here is to provide the maximum insulation possible whilst keeping the space practical.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using conventional foil faced insulation I\u2019ve used insulated tile backing board.\u00a0 This is a foam core with a thin reinforced layer either side, designed to be used in wetrooms.\u00a0 After I\u2019ve detailed and sealed the joints it should be vapour tight. I can then finish it with finish plaster directly without needing plasterboard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1093\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thin-loft-insulation.jpg');\"  href=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thin-loft-insulation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1093\" title=\"Thin-loft-insulation\" src=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thin-loft-insulation.jpg\" alt=\"Insulated tile backing board used where space is tight\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thin-loft-insulation.jpg 540w, https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thin-loft-insulation-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Insulated tile backing board on attic room ceiling and dormer cheeks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is a bit of an experiment as I\u2019ve not seen this done before or tried it anywhere else.\u00a0 Time will tell but so far it\u2019s looking like a perfect solution.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top of the stairs to attic has a landing with an old dormer window.\u00a0 Head height at the top of the stairs is an issue as is the ceiling of the dormer. The cheeks of the dormer are also short on space. The solution I\u2019m trying here is to provide the maximum insulation possible [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,206],"tags":[93,407,405,31,205,230,406,408,207],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","category-ido-property-stuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-diy","tag-insulation","tag-loft","tag-property","tag-renovation","tag-repair","tag-sttic","tag-thin","tag-whitby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}