{"id":1173,"date":"2014-01-23T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2014-02-05T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T20:43:04","slug":"loft-attic-eaves-cupboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2014\/loft-attic-eaves-cupboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Loft – Attic eaves cupboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The previous posts show the insulation that went behind the other dwarf walls in the attic<\/a>. These contained plumbing and ventilation ducts <\/a>so the space was unusable. \u00a0There is one wall in the attic that did have some useful space available.<\/p>\n

The cottage now has a fully insulated roof so just putting a door in to the space behind the wall wouldn’t be a good idea. \u00a0For a start it would be a gap in the insulation and it would be a magnet for condensation build up. \u00a0The cupboard space had to be fully insulated and vapour proof.<\/p>\n

\"Attic<\/a>

Insulation and vapour barrier to attic eaves cupboard<\/p><\/div>\n

It took lots of fiddly work with the kingspan \/ celotex \/ balytherm to ensure \u00a0neither the insulation or vapour barrier where breached. \u00a0Behind the green polythene barrier is rock wool type insulation. \u00a0All the joints are either taped or sealed with silicone. Where wires come through the electrical back boxes will be sealed when the sockets are finally fitted.<\/p>\n

The Inside of the cupboard then had a layer of plaster board screwed on and I even gave it a coat of paint before I clad the wall. \u00a0At this stage I had run out of old panelling to re-cycle so I had some new stuff aclimatising \u00a0to reduce contraction before it went on.<\/p>\n

\"Attic<\/a>

Attic dwarf wall clad in timber<\/p><\/div>\n

The door was originally on a cupboard in the inglenook downstairs and even there it was recycled from somewhere else. So its now in it’s third reincarnation, it’s worth keeping hold of these bits and bobs as you never know where they might fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The previous posts show the insulation that went behind the other dwarf walls in the attic. These contained plumbing and ventilation ducts so the space was unusable. \u00a0There is one wall in the attic that did have some useful space available. The cottage now has a fully insulated roof so just putting a door in […]<\/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":[413,201,453,405,205,322,455,454,452,207],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","category-ido-property-stuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-attic","tag-cottage","tag-cupboard","tag-loft","tag-renovation","tag-restoration","tag-space","tag-storage","tag-walls","tag-whitby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","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=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}