I would encourage people who live in a solid brick wall home to use this type of insulation because its cheap, easy to work with and is breathable. You need around 20mm minimum to make a difference.
Like the sound of this. If I do an entire side of the house on 9" brick, what happens where the stairs or an internal wall meets the exterior? Is this a problem?
I am doing this myself too so will share what I found from researching, but please take it with a pinch of salt! In the case of an interior wall meeting the exterior, there is a recommendation of overlapping the insulation 300mm onto the internal wall to prevent cold bridging. In my case, I didn't have the space in the kitchen so went without it, but tried to ensure there were no gaps between the insulation of the external wall and the interior wall edge. For the staircase I don't think there is much you can honestly do, but I think you need to ensure the staircase can breath and is painted only with breathable paints, so if it collects moisture because of the cold, it will breath to dry itself and not rot. Moreover, wood is an insulator already so I expect it to act a bit like the wood fibre boards, so perhaps you would just insulate around it if there is space!
I would encourage people who live in a solid brick wall home to use this type of insulation because its cheap, easy to work with and is breathable. You need around 20mm minimum to make a difference.
Does this work well if used to insulate the inside walls of an old stone barn conversion?
Like the sound of this. If I do an entire side of the house on 9" brick, what happens where the stairs or an internal wall meets the exterior? Is this a problem?
I am doing this myself too so will share what I found from researching, but please take it with a pinch of salt! In the case of an interior wall meeting the exterior, there is a recommendation of overlapping the insulation 300mm onto the internal wall to prevent cold bridging. In my case, I didn't have the space in the kitchen so went without it, but tried to ensure there were no gaps between the insulation of the external wall and the interior wall edge.
For the staircase I don't think there is much you can honestly do, but I think you need to ensure the staircase can breath and is painted only with breathable paints, so if it collects moisture because of the cold, it will breath to dry itself and not rot. Moreover, wood is an insulator already so I expect it to act a bit like the wood fibre boards, so perhaps you would just insulate around it if there is space!
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i tried it but it did not work
Can you say what didn't work about it? I'm interested it using it myself.