Installing External Wall Insulation - Is it a DIY Job?
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What are the advantages of external wall insulation?
• Reduced heat loss and energy bills
• Fewer draughts
• Does not disrupt the house while being installed
• Does not reduce internal floor area
• Allows walls to contribute to thermal mass (the ‘tea cosy’ effect)
• It improves not only weatherproofing but sound resistance too
• It increases the life of the wall
• It reduces condensation on internal walls
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Not many people understand that building is such a highly technical endeavor, even when humble materials are used but more so with new products. This is really educational. Thanks.
Plenty of developers seem to forget that now too. Cheapest labour possible, no checks during construction until it’s too late.
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@@lucianbrighi pana acum nu. dar ma bate un gand.
Builders seem to forget it too. 😅😅😅
After looking at new builds around here , highly technical they are not. Highly technical would be precise tolerances, that’s not the Uk building trade
I'm an expert on EWI by lived experience since 1982 here in the UK and in the Channel and Europe, and you will find my name on the 2004 white paper on the Industry because I kick started it after working on the new Met Office build in Exeter in 2000 and getting the job stopped by the visiting *Fire Officer, as the Insulation if set on fire ejected flaming globules and we don't like them do we.
Firstly it doesn't warm your house up and if you live in a South facing house the opposite is blatantly obvious, as any free heat from the Sun has been barred from entry. I've fitted EWI on Victorian South facing terraced housing who had never used their boilers before, but they had too as soon as the EWI was fitted.
It is great for sound reduction and drafts removal, and will save you money if you can afford to put the heating on. If you have no money the loss of the warmth from the Sun makes the house feel like a morgue very quickly.
If your wall is flat you need a perfect bead of mortar or you'll be beating the hell out of it in places were there is too much stuff. Sanding it down is a mugs game and you should have control of the dust as many jobs don't allow it.
Load a standard ten inch trowel with damp material and offer the bottom section up to the side of the board on a long section so the material is facing inwards and the trowel is stood up. The material should be sliding down the trowel, angle the trowel inwards with some pressure as this will keep the outside edge clean and stop thermal bridging, a half inch clean area around the perimeter is the effect we are looking for, and drag the trowel down the board whilst angling it to keep the material flowing. To finish run the trowel around the inside of the bead to tidy it up. A lifting trowel as used in this video is for lifting material out of a bucket and is crap at beading as can be seen @5:44 as this doesn't look like a bead, it looks like a mess that might cause thermal bridging around the edges of each board. The left mess has far more material than anywhere else which is not what is needed on a flat wall.
Can it be done as a diy job, I've heard many bosses say any monkey can do it, so yes. The material needs to be damp or your arms will fall off by nine o'clock and that alone is a problem for the untrained. These materials are hard to remove from other surfaces and I can normally guess the quality of the job by starting at the local shop and following the trail of footprints. Protect anything you don't want to be ruined. pay much attention to the weather, black boards get very hot, wind can affect all layers as well as humidity and frost. It will wash off ten days later if the "set" was affected by frost or heavy rain. Have some clean water close by for all layers. Make sure the mesh coat has gone off before applying the top coat or the grain will bury itself.
All tools need to be stainless steel or Plastic, Clean the edge of your plastic rubbing trowel frequently or it will leave blobs everywhere. Rub, wipe the edge, rub, wipe....., A smooth flat wall is the aim. Clean everything before it goes off.
Much like footballers this is a short career industry as it is heavy on Tendons and joints all day, damage to tendons is for life.
It's long lasting if done correctly, many of my jobs are still intact thirty years later. If it looks a mess it will do for ages.
As exterior Insulation stops the Sun from warming the walls up mould can be a problem indoors quite quickly with warm breath on cold walls, and more so if all the drafts have been closed up. Things like boiler flues and sink wastes need extending before you start, at no point should you cover the flue and it's not a diy item to replace.
*Fire officer
Back in 2000 I mentioned to the site manager that the Insulation wasn't safe and he ignored me due to the class system. Luckily at the time any big new build was visited by the local Fire officer so a few weeks later I could beckon him up onto the scaffold. A few minutes later the job was stopped until the insulation fitted had been removed and swapped for something that didn't burn. Shortly after the Industry became self regulated and the chance of a worker beckoning the Chief fire officer was removed, which is partly why Grenfell happened. Could I have stopped Grenfell, the smell of something flammable is enough to trigger my senses, I think not. Anyone who knew anything about it was swapped out for a cheaper version during Mr Blair. You don't need expensive managers for cheap migrant workers.
Indeed. this is only class B because of the external render coat. Mechanical damage and thermal movement soon exposes the highly combustible EPS core which is class E. Bristol city council currently removing this crud from their housing stock following a fire.
Very long and informative answer. I would have to argue with you - that any new cavity blockwork house with inuslated cavity will stop solar gain from outside. Solar gain comes from windows in a new house. The only houses that beneift from solar gain through external walls - are those which are poorly insulated! If you are living in an old house with external retro fit insulation AND heated regularly AND has a heat recovery system - i dont see how mould is an issue. Your exterior masonry walls should warm up and stay reactively warm due to the external insulation
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I see no point in arguing about it, you learn more with discussion. I am aware that solid walls are affected by the climate more than insulated walls. Its a given. It's how you cope with that.
No one is making money from the Sun warming your house up.
Those in solid wall tower blocks have been the happiest with EWI by far, because there is resident heat internally every day from all the bodies and cooking etc, and the ewi has cut the draughts, and cut wind noise.
A couple in a detached solid wall house with EWI have very little resident heat, and replace/ pay for that heat or the house is chilled, because the Sun in the main has been blocked from entry all of a sudden. Many of them by comparison raged in the street the next morning and wanted the EWI taken off.
The poor heat the room they are sat in with supplementary heat, the rest are now cold and often mouldy because the draughts have gone. They don't like bills. They wouldn't use any "system", because energy is far too expensive for them. Gas boilers sit unused.
I've worked on rather a lot of private design houses and .Gov buildings, here and abroad, with ewi and iwi, and systems of heat recovery from ground, air, pond, river, stream and canal, and even muck. Super thick insulation, triple glazed, and a roof more than a foot thick. Some had an indoor heated swimming pool. They can all afford to run the systems to capture the heat, very little comes in from the Sun. The main thing they notice with EWI and Iwi is noise reduction.
Designed well insulated housing is great to live in if you can afford it. I'd recommend it for everyone.
Hi. I see your comment is old now but you seem experienced. I have a South or South East facing home. Its a no fines poured concrete house in Wales. The front has already been externally insulated but the rear hasn't. The rear has render and pebble dash bit it's cracking and coming in places around the window and door. I am suffering with a bit of mold inside on the rear more than the front.
Is it worth me insulating the rear? I'm not sure why it wasn't done when the front was. Perhaps because it's South facing?
@spex357 Brother - i meant to reply much sooner. Perhaps argue is too strong a word, maybe more a lively debate. I appreciate both your comments, and this entire video (cheers Roger). TH-cam really is a great place to learn and discuss complicated subjects when people comes to the conversation with good humour and respect. Thanks again!
Love that you showed that simple error around the window - a real confident pro will admit they're not infallible!
But the water that will leak into the window comes out of the underneath of the original cill that he has capped over....the capping has to tuck under the original cill in my mind.
@@markgamester To my mind, there's only a channel with opening windows and this one was a fixed pane. Makes me wonder what happens with opening windows, though saying that the openers that I've seen get rid of the water on top of the sill. better to let it drip off that than dribble down the wall, especially as it has a drip on it, to get the water away from the building
@@bikerchrisukk All windows leak past the glass and have drainage, whether they are fixed panes or openers, you are right that openers drain on top of the cill, but majority of aluminium windows the fixed frame (fixed panes) drains through the cill and drains at the front underneath.
@@markgamester I wondered what do you do when replacing the windows in future. Does the insulation need cut away to do so?
@@markgamester Ah, never fitted them so didn't know about ali' frames, handy to know 👍
DIY'er here, yesterday I just finished doing an external insulation job on my rear bathroom extension, roughly twice the area you have shown with two windows using the EWI system. I have been very impressed with the EWI products and the help they give on doing the job. For me the cost was about £800 so I recon I saved myself quite a bit of money as it is quite labour intensive when you take into consideration all the stages. Your video was great and I wish I had seen it before doing the job. My learning was;
.- It does take quite a long time to do given all the stages, particularly if the weather is not on your side.
- I used EPS board below the insulation tray and I wish I had put it one before puting on the tray
- I didn't use the protective film on th e windows and it meant I had a quite a bit of clean up to do on the window frames. I would use this in future.
- As a DIY'er who has done some plastering before I was surprised how messy the job can be, so I would recommend putting down a protective sheet on the ground
- It is surprising how thin the final render coat is (mines was a 1.5mm grit) and it is really easy to put on too much. I also used a plastic plasterers trowel as a float and now recognise this was the wrong tool
- Putting on the final siliconerender coat on top of the insulation is surprisingly noisy, my watch kept telling me that it was too loud (over 100dB) so folks may want to protect their hearing when they do this.
- I undertand that if you are doing more than 15% of the area of a wall then it is subject to building regulations?
Informative, thank you. I am planning to do the insulation myself and rendering by a professional.
@@user-ep3iv1pc8k yep or £10k+ to pay someone to do it.
Big Thank you to Roger and the other people involved in this. Free educational videos like this make the world a better place. I appreciate all the little tidbits of info especially things like the circular polystyrene disks and the explanation as to why those elements are not to be ignored. Not only informative but also entertaining watching skilled people doing jobs properly. Brilliant stuff guys !!!
Thanks, we get some stick from people who think these are just adverts but we try to put generic information in them.
@@SkillBuilder you don't.
@@SkillBuilder I spend half my time in Slovakia. I am here now and the Winters are a lot colder than in Britain. Moja milovaná (My beloved) has just had external cladding put on the very thick but non-cavity walls of this 1938 house. The house was built with double glazing (a typical 6" air gap), common in Slovakia even then. We are already, even in November and early December, experiencing the benefits of the exterior insulation. Being a traditional Slovak house, the windows, although allowing a lot of light into the house, they are not the biggest windows in the World. Something that we HAVE noticed is a reduction in light penetration because the insulation creates a tunnel effect. Have you considered the possibility of angling the top and sides, or at least the sides, of the insulation around the windows to reduce light loss. It becomes an architectural feature.
Here is something that may amuse you. All plumbing fittings in Slovakia are in Imperial ! Last year we purchased a 6/4" (1.5 inch) steel pipe for a spike well. Copper pipe and garden hoses and all the fitments are sold as 3/8" 1/2" or 3/4" or 4/4" etc. Peculiarly, the length of pipe is in metres. We have 50 metres of 3/4" garden hose pipe with a 3/4" spray gun. We have Tesco here. They sell pumps for garden wells. I have NEVER seen a well pump (or any pump) for sale in Tesco in Britain ! It is a different life here.
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@@terryhoath1983
Not Inch but Zoll, almost the same but a little different, same in Croatia ...
1 zoll = 2.624 cm = 1.033 inch ... Cheers
It was great to work alongside you on this project!
This man is a true Craftsman and clearly loves & knows his trade.
I’ve been in construction 36 years & would like to say your vids are great
Thanks Andy that is good to know
There is nothing quite like watching a talented professional with years of experience doing their stuff. All interests in insulation aside, this was a joy to watch.
Roger, Ihave watched a few of your videos. You are such an impressive guy. Anyone would be proud and reassured to use you to work on their home. I’m past the age of doing this stuff, I just pay now but I find your advice and skill amazing to watch. Thank you for what you do. Best wishes.
That was really great Roger.
Perfect balance of information and execution.
A lot of hard work went into the video and it really shows in the first class product.
Absolutely fabulous to see someone paying a good amount of attention to health and safety issues, irrespective of whether or not it's a professional or amateur job. The sheer number of people who DON'T either use the (correct) safety kit or more often than not, not at all, is just staggering. Anything from face mask and eye goggles to the [right] chainsaw operating wear can make the difference from having a few minutes of minor inconvenience to don this stuff to a lifetime of diminished physical capacity in one form or another; hospitals see this all the time.
I once was walking down an alleyway via a turnstile gate into a local authority housing estate. The Council had contractors chopping down a large tree just beyond the turnstile gate. One of the chainsaw operators had laid a [switched on] chainsaw on the tree stump in front of me & turned away. Being aware of just how potentially dangerous this was, I politey asked him to either move it or turn the chainsaw off. The verbal abuse I received isn't fit to print here. All it would've taken for serious & potentially life threatening injuries would be if the chainsaw motor's vibrations had caused it to move along the stump & fall off as either myself or the tree gang moved past.
Ultimately safety matters much more than most people think. So well done for treating this issue with the seriousness it deserves. You're a long time with (insert long laundry list of potential injuries here).
I think you were being a busy body. Sorry.
When a chainsaw has its throttle opened and the clutch engaged the chain will go at 17meters a second which will cut through bone with ease.
A ticking over chainsaw poses no threat whatsoever ever. The inconvenience of starting an already warm saw with a modern automatic choke can be a pain for the operator though.
So now you know.
Let the guys do their job. If, as you say they were contracted by the council then they were not naive to dangers of tree felling. A ticking over saw isn’t one of them I’m afraid.
@@rollovaughan I fail to see how being safety conscious for myself and that of others is being a 'busy body' as you so quaintly phrased it; I had to walk within 3" of that chainsaw chain. A family friend for whom we were catering their wedding died in a horrific chainsaw accident the day before the wedding despite being a well qualified & highly experienced forrester. We decided to donate the wedding breakfast for the wake instead. So you can understand why I am particularly safety conscious regarding chainsaws. I've also encountered patients who've NOT taken appropriate safety precautions whilst engaging in a whole host of activities, some of which have been left with serious lifelong physical impairments. Additionally, there was ABSOLUTELY no excuse for the torrent of foul language & abuse I received & they were darn lucky I didn't report the incident to the Council. Council's tend to take a very dim view of both safety breaches & verbal abuse of both their own staff & the general public for good reasons; it exposes them to prosecution & terrible publicity.
I just hope [you] never end up being one of those patients I mentioned. A few moments of laziness can REALLY f**k up a life.
It was great working together and getting Paul involved, great video and explanation Roger!
Glad you enjoyed it, we will do more soon
These are truly men of value. Thank you for this video.
This guy was great to watch and learn from. I'm not putting insulation outside my house but enjoyed this a lot.
Props to you Robert, especially nice to see humility and enthusiasm when it comes to learning new techniques and materials. Construction is continuously improving, especially when it comes to insulation. Keep it up, I'm loving learning alongside you.
I appreciate that!
I've been fitting EWI since 1982 and am now disabled as i cant do much with my arms or hands. Endless drilling and endless pressured trowel work is bad news for tendons.
Well said... cheers from the US!
Roger, it's not quite 2 hours, a day since you uploaded this video and YOU HAVE 25k+ VIEWS. WOW, wonderful. Love your vids and my house is coming along nicely mate. 18 months since I purchased the dump and I only have the hall, stairs and landing to finish plus the bathroom (next summer). I have done it all on my own with great help from you Mr !!!
Hi Lee
That is good to know, it just shows what can be done.
Excellent video. Wish everyone was as thorough as you!
Excellent video Roger. There isn't many people that admit a mistake like you did with the window cill . Thanks for the vid. From 🇬🇧
I’m currently doing my own house about 200m2 of it, easy stuff to work with and I’ll be sharing on my channel soon. Great vid Roger , only missing bit was adding on the window seal extender.
We are waiting for the window sill extender to be delivered
This is an excellent demonstration, hard work and I can see why the costs are high as you take scaffolding into account too. Well done to both, in fact three of you.
Seems a very labour intense operation,not overlooking the extremely hight priced materials,not convinced about ths benifits if ANY.
@@samuelboyd972 what is a better way? some sort of silicone bead around the perimeter of the plates, then anchor it and cover with solar panels?
Brilliant, thank you. Just right, not too quick or too slow plus explainations! With mistakes included - real life! Subscribed
Really enjoyed watching the love put into this job & the perfection of the finished product!! Lovely 😻 🎉🎉🎉
Excellent presentation as always from a knowledgeable and experienced craftsman. What I do find shocking is the amount of plastic based foam that's finding its way into buildings and the rasping of the insulation blocks you demonstrated clearly released so much microplastic into the environment that it's easy to see why it's becoming such a problem. In 2022 microplastics were found in human blood for the first time, it was found in the blood of 80% of people in the study and if its in your blood its in every organ in your body.
Finally European building standards are slowing being adapted here! Been doing it for years with this. Although those thicknesses are the minimum you should be using.
Sure wish I had seen this four years ago - better late than never, though, although the house has been done for three years now, no cracks, nothing to complain about. Thanks for your expert series and your effort to educate - there's always some knowledge to be gained from your videos.
Great informative video Roger. My daughters house is having this done at the moment, so I am now well informed to pick up on any defects. Thank you and keep up the good work. Cheers
No idea why I’ve ended up seeing this video but I thoroughly enjoyed Rogers calm and engaging teaching. Great video! Well done camera op.
Great work as always Roger, I found your videos the most educational of all on YT. I have done quite few jobs like this myself and the results are astoninhing (both aesthetically and from energy efficiency point of view). The only detail I'd like to add for anyone wanting to have this done is that the mesh needs to overlap each run by at least 100mm for strength (I don't think you mentioned it during the process). Other than that - perfect job. Thanks
yes it does overlap and it was mentioned in the filming but maybe got dropped in the edit
Rodger you can impart more information in twenty minutes than a college professor can in a week of lectures. Also your camera operator gets the angles right to show what you are trying to convey to us viewers
His videos have helped me fix the fuck ups of cowboys in the trade for my mum. I'm by far from an expert, I'm literally a complete novice. I've had to fix loads of things that they've not done properly, job permitting, I'm not trying to be a roofer haha. Sometimes you can splash the money and still have someone do a crap job. In any case. Watching some of his videos and following it step by step afterwards as well as reading the description/instructions of the products used has allowed me to do decent job. Slowly the jobs are becoming more clean and while probably never going to professional level it functions and looks alright.
Thank you for the fire rating information. That was my first question.
Magic! Roger, thank you very much for your insight! I know making these videos are hard work and time, so thanks for your effort! I have learned a lot from you today! You are an absolute start! Have a great start into the new year! Adrian (from Austria)
Much appreciated
Hi mate, just a little practical advice. Whenever you apply the adhesive to the back of the sheet to make the frame, leave a small gap, say 5-10cm, so that when you push the sheet against the wall, there is no air pocket behind it. Air pockets make it more difficult to adjust and align the insulation. As you push it in, there is no way for the air to escape and the sheet pops back out.
In addition, if I were you, I would have waited for the adhesive to set before drilling and anchoring the sheets.
Cheers 🍺🍺🍺
The adhesive was set by the time we did the rest of the job which included rasping the face.
Hi Roger. Was asked to do this on an outside studio approx 6 metres x 3.5 metres. Was very vary but did my homework and did the job to a high standard. If you have done a bit of plastering you will be able to do this. Very well explained video. Thanks for sharing.
I watched the full video , what a superb job , you guys made it look easy.
I’ve go a big project for some EWI on a 120 year old house with solid 9” walls , I am going to add to the new replacement windows a 50mm add-on piece so I can return the external insulation to the reveal and hopefully stop a bit of thermal bridge
I went on the EWI Pro installers course a few weeks back. Excellent days training with Paul and his team...would highly recommend. I'm only intending doing my own house but the course was well worth it. Great real world video Roger thank you!
Thank you so much for the great feedback on our training!
I found it really informative being a complete novice. I fit bathrooms and kitchens fir a living so know how to use tools but always been scared of the plasterers trowel and hawk. Yeah I dropped a bit on the floor but I'm super confident after that day
i’m a plasterer, and often get asked if i do these external insulation render systems which i don’t. There’s a lot more to sticking that insulation on the walls than i realised,
Absolutely brilliant video!! Such a great explanation and great job
That looks absolutely superb. An old knackered wall given a modern hi tec look.
My thoughts exactly
It's good to see someone installing insulation properly. There are so many bodgers in the insulation industry
Paul is a star 🤩 21:20 as you both get to work having listened to his very dignified, respectful, diplomatic (This is how you do it Roger) advice, you both nailed it. No nails used in the making of this video! 🤭🤔🤫😆
We have to agree, Paul is an absolute star!
@@EWIPro 👍Pay rise 🤔🤭 I am sure you look after him brilliantly. Well done all of you. We do have professionals available, I have been beginning to worry, but you are still out there ! Wishing you all the best and a Merry Christmas, we all need that too ! 🤩🤗
@@Lee.Willcox Have a great Christmas too!
Wow that's a lot of work, impressive stuff. My head is spinning now.
@SkillBuilder
Roger - You didn't insulate around the window reveal so there will be a so called "cold bridge" around the window. This will result in a cold area inside the window and the potential formation of condensation inside.
Yes, it isn't perfect but it is better than nothing
@@SkillBuilder what would the ideal solution be? I assume new, smaller, windows?
@@nadnerb33 The standard detail is to bond thinner strips on the jambs & head and THEN put your corner beads & mesh on to connect the two faces together. I really don't understand why this wasn't done here, there was enough width on the frames.
It’s a great product. We have external insulation on the side and top walls of a traditional semi, replaced the cracked rough cast. While it does change the look of the building, not to my mind in negative way. With so many old houses in the UK, and the need to improve energy efficiency, we need to encourage people to have it done. In our case the old rough cast had to come off anyway, so the additional expense was justifiable.
But if we had a solid functional traditional render I would have left it alone.
Videos like this though help to demonstrate the benefits of using these external insulations when you have to do work to the external walls of a building.
The government should encourage owners of older buildings to do these sort of jobs. How about a council tax reduction if you hit a set of energy efficiency targets with works to an older property?
What a fantastic video. 👏I have never seen this done before, very well put together.
Really enjoyed this, doesn't look easy but I love the way you explained it, and all the hints and tips, thanks.
We had it done to our house when it was still owned by the housing association, it made a massive difference to our energy bills. Luckily when we bought the house off of them we never got charged any money as it was a few years after it was done
Definitely recommend it to anyone who owns a house with solid walls
Thank you for your testimonial Ilija.
How have you got on with mould? I just wonder about moisture with these sorts of things
@@JoseStev we've been fine until this winter, there has been a little bit in places where the air doesn't flow such as behind wardrobes. It probably hasn't helped with the heating not being on as much due to us having no mains gas in the village so everything is on electric for us. But going by the other 8 years or so we haven't had a problem
Did this to our solid wall 1920s house a year ago. Our heating energy usage has dropped by 55% in the subsequent year..!! Plus the house looks and feels a lot nicer. Not cheap but very well worth it.
Ewi store has amazing products and they are nice people I went there and met them, will do my house with their stuff.
I like to see skilled people at work, particularly people in construction. Well done Roger. I have 100% faith in your work.
Thanks Scott. I can tell you I don't have a 100% faith in anything I do. I do my best but sometimes, as shown in the video, I get things wrong. I will, however, put them right rather than stop answering the phone.
Hi can you give me a quote please
Hi Roger, as always great video and instructions. I did my home a few years ago and I've put 20mm board on the side of the windows and I've put foam in between the board joints to stop heat and moisture leaking. In the future you might end up with board lines all over your new render. Thermal bridges are very important. I've also dug up the foundations around the house and insulated them with ESP boards and paint them with liquid rubber, better than injectionof DPC, this way you get warm frm tip to toe.
How does painting the surface stop rising damp?
Yes, have seen the pro's using expanding foam if there's any little gaps in the panels ...
I attended the EWI Pro course earlier this year with the view, as a DIYer, to insulate my house. Paul was very good at delivering and answered all questions, including vents and under gutters. The hands on was good experience, as with Roger, It wasn't until a second go at scrapping back for the 'floating' that I realised how hard you have to press.
Thanks for sharing! It is useful to learn about other people's experiences
Thank you so much for the great feedback, we'll be sure to let Paul know!
What a labour! Amazing job~ good to see!
You are the best, Rog. Keep on doing what you do, mate.......you help (and entertain) a LOT of us.
Thanks Mike, it is good to get some nice comments among all the trolls.
@@SkillBuilder Amongst the trowels, mate! Love all your content, Rog....much better that most of the stuff on telly.
What an informative video. Thanks. But I noticed you didn't fix any insulation to the window reveals. I'd be concerned about cold bridging there. Also would be interested to see how you finished off at the top neatly. Also how would you cope if you had soffits that stuck out less distance than the thickness of the wall insulation?
I did this for 6 years. Slightly differently. Below the plinth, we used a 75mm HD eps. Around the reveals we fixed 20mm eps to prevent cold bridging. After fitting the expanding foam, we would cover it with silicone. Also we applied 2no base coats fixing the mesh into the first coat. Not finding fault with yours, just describing an alternative way.
I was surprised as well that they didn't use thin eps around the reveals ,
Good evening Mick. I am Mark from California. Have those homes been improved since you added the insulation? Does it take a while to heat those walls before you feel the warmth?
@@eastcorkcheeses6448 I commented on this, apparently the internal reveals have insulated plasterboard
@ east Cork cheeses
No point insulating the face of the brickwork and leaving the reveals exposed, dry lined or not.
Hi Mark, even before we had finished the top coat, our customers commented on how warmer the house had become. This was after only a few days.
I had my solid wall property done in January.
Absolutely amazing!!!!
I extended all the services, new triple glazing brought to front of openings extended insulated windows sills!.
Gas boiler now running at 55c and house never drop below 18c!!!!!
Wow.. Thank you so much for your honesty and skills...
Hi Roger I’d like you to do a vid on how to insulate, internally, a non cavity wall. Reading up on this vapour is a big issue. Lots of differing opinions. Be good to hear your advice. The ins and outs. Love thé content keep up the great work. Thanks
Warmboarded my whole house from interior, never had an issue but I open the windows for a while every day and don’t dry clothes in the house, house also has open fireplace for air circulation
Try th-cam.com/video/UYTbMi2Jgfk/w-d-xo.html
Use insulated plasterboard, on treated timber battens 38x38mm with dpc tape usually behind battens fixed to solid wall. If you are concerned about vapour issues and mould I would recommend using a reputable firm for the insulated plasterboard with integrated vapour check like kingspan, and ask them to give you a u-value calculation for the build up you are using along with a condensation risk analysis. Hopefully it will pass the test and reduce any risk of mould.
Who is Robert?
@@atanasdimitrov8496 haha shit
this looks a great produt and easy to do provided you follow the instructions could a compident DIY er fit this ? would like to see how you deal with down pipes and the like.
Great stuff thanks
Thanks to Roger and team, your advice is invaluable 👏👏👏
Happy new year
Happy new year to you too. It is hard to find reasons to be cheerful right now but we can only hope that Putin stops dropping missiles on Ukraine. It breaks my heart to see people bombed out of the their homes.
Absolute great video Roger! Thank you so much!!
would love to see you do a full property with lots of really difficult bits to show how to do it. My house for instance was built somewhere around 1900 and solid stone angled windowsills and bay windows etc
Don’t you dare!
my neighbour did it to his semi detached house with bay windows, took him a week and it looks decent, not a Victorian bay though
Have you considered the alternative: insulating the inside of the external walls with insulated plasterboard such as Celotex Pl4025 or similar? There are pros and cons for insulating both ways, but insulating the inside surface at least means no scaffolding necessary, the exterior look is preserved (if it's worth preserving,) and when it's done, little of the heat you're paying for is wasted in heating up the brick structure. Admittedly in this example, with a 9" (solid) brick wall, there are issues with damp penetration as well as no insulation, but if that's not an issue for you, why not do the internal surface of the exterior wall/s on one room for a start, then see the difference?
@@johnriggs4929 Hmm. Internal insulation means losing space, dealing with skirting, radiators, pipework, sockets, switches, architraves, window frames, etc, so not as easy in most houses. Plus, in solid wall properties, foam products will ruin the breathability of the wall and create risk of condensation between insulation and wall. Not all properties can have EWI, so internal is the only option. But if have the choice, go for EWI over IWI.
@@johnriggs4929a few times now I have been told to always/only insulate the cold side if I care about my health?
We did this to our 1926 semi. Cost us about £7500 at £55sqm and we haven’t looked back since. Didn’t realise the amount of work involved and this is one of your best vids yet. Might have an extension to EWI soon 😂
Did you have to obtain planning permission?
@@hassansultan6567 no we didn’t luckily. Permitted development rights.
Superb video with all the details. well done. thank you.
Brilliant down to earth presentation.
Great job! How would you cater for the existing eves/guttering? What if the roof has vent holes - would they be covered up?
You can taper the top but it really depends on each job. The training course deals with these points
That looks great. This may be a stupid question, but I’m sure you’ll put me right. How would you go about replacing the windows at a later date? Would some of the insulation need to be removed, then replaced? Thanks.
you would deglaze the window cut the frame and fold inwards, then the new window would have to be made smaller as to fit in from the outside, then trimmed.
I thought you'd fit from the inside and fix up the inner reveals. No need to touch the outside then.
@@deeeirl looks to me like its dot and dab plasterboard on the inside so the internal reveal would be smaller than the external. In that case much easier fitting from the outside and not disturbing the internal reveals, otherwise you'll be replastering. Window would butt against plaster board so minimal making good on the inside.
@@markgamester I agree - good practical points. But if Roger had put a return of a thinner layer of EPS into the external window reveals as is recommended to avoid cold bridging round the frame, you are then a bit more stuck when the window needs replacing.
Great video Rodger. Many thanks
Exactly what I needed. Thanks VERY much
Very inciteful. I am not in the building trades, but am an ex Housing Officer with an HNC in Housing Studies, and also a retired IT professional, so this sort of technology and best practice fascinates me. It was very well presented too. Thank you very much.
How do you fix external installation to a pebbledash wall? Thick layer of adhesive to fill the gaps same as an uneven wall? Trying to remove the pebbledash is probably going to be a non starter.
And what about rockwool as a more environmentally friendly insulation?
Hiya, we offer a 'One Coat Dash Cover' - This covers any exterior pebbledash and prepares it for external render :)
Wow, I never knew how easy this was - just source dozens of parts and materials and then simply follow the 937 intricate steps that take merely hours each. A quick job that anyone with decades of experience in the building trade could knock up in an afternoon. And I'm sure having to do it on 2 or 3 storeys would barely complicate it.
hahah thanks for the laughs😆
Neat job Roger, as usual.
So informative, such an endearing knowledgeable presenter.
There's a lot of mess and waste, and future necessary brick work is a serious problem. This is like adding polystyrene tiles to ceilings.
I am a Pensioner living in Bulgaria and you have just saved me a lot of money that I can ill afford! Many thanks
Very good instructional video.
Sadly my house is a too large project to do on my own, it would simply take too much time and also the mentioned day breaks in the rendering would be unavoidable that way.
So that's why I leave it to the specialists.
I will however do the walls which get an exterior cladding instead of rendering.
The final silicone render is breathable as well?
Breathability is needed to avoid the insulation getting soaking wet over time by moisture penetrating.
As the wall is on the warm side, the dew point is somewhere in the insulation.
Great video and a wonderful presentation. Well done and many thanks.
Did this method 30 years ago in west Germany now we are catching on to it 🤣👍👍🇬🇧
That looks like the sheet version of what we had blown into our walls. Very interesting video, and thank you for sharing.
Great to see the process - what a lot of work though...and knowledge and skill!
Well done Roger , another great video
I could watch that guy floating a wall all day, dude is an expert in his craft and mesmerizing to watch lol
Hello from Canada, Loved your video, Fantastic work . : )
Very good, I am having the professionals in early next year, this shows me how it should be done, thanks !
I read comments first before I watched the video. After watching, learned a lot. Millions of thanks
Glad it helped
I'm loving this. I want more,now!
Did similar near Glasgow way back in the early nineties but this looks on another level,as a joiner it was different.
One of the best / informative videos on TH-cam at present. I've an 1800 semi with 9" solid walls, done what I can with insulation / double glazing /draught proofing etc but getting to the point of diminishing returns / payback and have thought about external insulation. How much did that area cost. I've a big flat gable end that would take that system well. Just an observation, when you applied the 3 dabs of adhesive to the back of the panels, why not drill 3 small/pilot holes through where you're going to apply the adhesive, that way you won't miss the spot required for the mechanical fixing.
Good tips, a thinner piece of insulation around the windows to stop cold bridging. Where the wall meets the roof (not in this example but for new extensions) if its a warm roof try to have the roof insulation meet with exterior insulation.
One of the best Videos on YT. EVERYTHING CORRECT. Only the Dimension of insulation could be higher. 16-24 cm.👍👍👍🇩🇪
Enjoyed that.
I have 150 year old,2 feet thick,rubble filled stone walls,like most of the houses in this area (lakes)
Fabulous video, Roger, congratulations and many thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it
As ever, really informative and helpful. Thanks
Impressive, I really liked the product and relatively easy application! 😎
First time I have come across this video! I'm very impressed with the whole idea of external insulation, and have a project in mind for my new home to which we will be moving, in a few weeks time!
This man a real engineer great brain great video explains it very well.
Best video on this topic. Thank you
Thank you so much for making this video