Insulation Overload
Insulation Overload
I can’t quite put into words just how boring and monotonous cutting sheets of insulation into smaller pieces, and pushing them into place, bringing them back down to trim them and then gap-fill foam them into position is. The tiny particles irritate wherever they land so if I’m not rubbing my eyes, it’s my neck, wrists or ‘elsewhere’ as that stuff goes wherever it wants to, but I’ll leave that to your imagination!
I’m routinely going home with red eyes and sore shoulders but the majority of the 100mm insulation between the rafters is done now and we’re finally onto the 50mm stuff which covers both the rafters and the 100mm insulation, totally hiding all of the work!
Where you might think nearly six inches of insulation is a bit over the top you need to remember this whole building needs to be heated from either a log burner or a solid fuel stove so every bit of energy which we lose is one more night spent in a cold building. The walls are two feet thick but are solid stone so although they will act as a thermal mass once they’ve warmer, at the moment, they’re acting like walls of a chiller cabinet and it’s not proving that comfortable a workplace.
That said, with the 50mm insulation on, you can start to see the beams more clearly and how the whole place might look once the plasterboard is on which is nice.
I’m sure I’ll appreciate it more once I get the feeling back in my fingers!