How we built our traditional insulated floors - Finnish log house renovation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2024
- Here's how built our insulated floors for the extreme weather conditions, with almost no plastics at all!
This house of ours has been standing here for centuries, so they must've done something right back then. From the very first moments of buying this house the decision to use traditional methods and natural materials was clear. Why change something that clearly works so well?
The problem was, there was a lot of different materials and methods to choose from and I had no clue of how it should actually be built so that the hygroscopic materials work in a correct way. I was so worried that I'll mess something up and the whole house will be one big pile of fungus in a year.
So after countless hours of reading through books, searching online and asking advice from professionals I decided that this is the method and materials we are gonna go with. The idea is, that when eventually some moisture will get in the insulation, it is gradually released from underneath the floor in the crawlspace keeping the structures dry and healthy.
Here is links to the products we used (this is NOT an ad, I just want the information to be easily available if there's anyone opting for natural materials). Some of the pages are in Finnish, but translation works quite well, even though Paavo paper seems to get translated as Spongebob. :D
Paavo paper (on the cold side of insulation)
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Hunton Nativo blown-in insulation
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Arvo paper (on the warm side of insulation)
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And the chemical free insulation I mentioned was Ehta
www.ehtatalot....
Here is a link to Finnish Heritage agency's page, where you can find a lot of information of maintaining an old house. The instructions are sadly on pdf-files in Finnish and won't translate automatically.
www.korjaustai...
I hope I got the terms right here. It's not an easy task to translate something you're struggling with even in your own language. :D
It has been an eye opening journey to learn this all. These traditional methods just seem like such a smart and sustainable way to build that it makes me feel like wanting to preach. :)
All the best,
Saaga Helena
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Just a reminder pinned here, that this is not an instruction video of how to build floors, but an example of how we chose to do it and why we chose this method. Regulations, needs and materials vary depending on where you live, so always ask a professional for all the help and guidance. 🙏
Thankyou for this demonstration/explanation- i had so many questions when watching your videos :) now they are answered.
I'm so glad to hear! My mouth is slower than my brain, so I'm not the best at explaining things, but I'm happy if you found this helpful. 🙏🏼😍 Thank you for watching!
Nicely done, I wanted to insulate our floors since they are wood, but I that only works for a home like yours I think. Open bottom where the wind can blow and take the moisture out. If you have a basement or in an area with lots of moisture doing this would probably be a breading ground for mold and other things. So just as you said though it all depends on where you live, but I think you did a very good job, that shot under the house, it looked fantastic.
Yes it's important that the moisture can get out somehow. If you can't make this sort of system happen, you'll probably get draft free floors with more modern products and with less work, so that's a positive way to think. 😅 And yes, the view from under the house is quite nice, not scary at all like it was before! 🙈
Our vapor barrier (paper) is called Aquabar "B" which sounds like Aqua "Barbie" 🤣🤣🤣
Oh no, now the song will be living in my head for the next month! 🤣 Where are you from?
@@saagahelena Haha, sorry about that! I'm in the US and in flooring retail. Solid hardwood floors are the best of course. But vinyl planks took over. And I suppose in Europe also (Adore, One Flor, Polyflor & Aptahls) etc. They are brittle and beginning to fail here, so we are going back to suggesting traditional laminate. (or real wood)
All the way from US. 😍 And yes, hardwood floors are the way to go in my opinion too. 😅
That’s fairly modern construction. I have a house with sand insulation under the floors.
Oh cool! It's nice to have history under the floorboards too. 😍Our floors were also insulated with sand, peat, moss and hay, but sadly we had to remove everything as all the structures were rotten. We didn't have enough moss or hay growing on our yard so it was easier to buy the new insulation online than wait to be self sufficient on that level. 😆