Hi Phil, I may do another insulation vid in my loft but it is very old, dark and creepy. Even spiders won't go in there, because they are scared ...... 🕷️🕸️
Thanks, that's a really great explanation of how you solved this problem. I have a similar challenge I'm planning to work on with my house, so this has given me lots of ideas and inspiration.
I too had a quick Honey do project this week. My 22 year old cloths dryer got over heated and fried the safety over heat sensor. Hope it's ok, but had to mention you during the repair (@@)! I have also put off due to cost relace 5 single pane window, If I would stop buys machinist tools, well that another story 😞! Love seeing your grand kids enjoying their papa, they grow up too quickly, don't they ! Thx for the DIY Paul.
Hi Bear, we got rid of our dryer in favour of an indoor clothes rail which pulls up into the apex of that vaulted kitchen ceiling, like my granny used to have. But the conversation in our house used to go something like this ..... Wife: "the dryer is not working". Me: "it's overheated, did you clean out the fluff in the condenser?". Wife: "I usually do......." To be fair she always did after the first couple of times the safety heat sensor popped, but it's a job I am familiar with. Take care, regards Paul
Thank you for posting this. Whilst we live in a much newer house than yours there is virtually no insulation (yet) so watching how you've analysed heat loss and how you've decided to improve things is very helpful. Your TH-cam style is much appreciated too! It would be interesting to know if your hard work has made a noticeable difference to how comfortable your house has become and if you've seen a reduction of energy usage...
Hi Bridevalley, I've done a lot of insulation work on this house over the the years and you will see some of that in my videos HS165 and HS226. Overall it has made a lot of differenced to this circa 1820 property to the point where our bills are really no more than the average. But it's been a case of chipping away at it room by room over 15 years or so doing something about worst areas where I can get the most benefit for the work/cost. Cheers
Great job , no doubt every small improvement will result in a warmer house. Hopefully less overall cost in regard to your heating bill.Take care and say hi to your assistants 👍👍
Hi Paul, the kids are comical. I can feel the heat draw from a cold wall or a falling cool current very easily so just insulating that boxed-in area in the loo makes a lot of difference in a narrow room. It terms of saving money, well really there is no business case for insulating a small area given the cost of materials these days. But incrementally it does add up if you work your way around all the issues in all the rooms. Cheers
Can never have enough insulation, but as you correctly state it's important to maintain ventilation in roofing zones. Always enjoy these DIY projects :)
Ah thank you Paul. I could probably do one more insulation project vid but it involves crawling into some pretty creepy and spooky restricted narrow spaces in my loft. We'll see. Cheers
Hi Paul, very enjoyable video. Its really interesting to see what camera reveals. In one of the clips I think I could see the outline of the brick structure. You could have had a nice n gauge loft railway in that space .... getting in and out might have been tricky though😅😅. Two new additions to the cast as well👏👏 Have a great weekend!!
Hi David, the thermal cam is like x-ray specs. Yes you can see all the mortar between the blocks and it would be useful for locating 'hardpoints' for fixing plugs and screws. The mortar will be stronger than the Thermalite blocks. I can see my heating pipe runs in the concrete floors glowing lovely yellow. Also will be handy to find hot and cold pipes running up walls so I don't stick a nail through them. My daughter hopes to find a roof leak where I am sure the cold rain water is running down on the topside of the felt, but under the tiles, and emerging at the bottom of the roof slope and thence running down a bedroom wall. It's proving to be an absolute sod to find where the bad tile is and the roofer wants to charge her £3.5k to redo the whole valley and feeder slopes (having already charged her £1200 for a 'fix' that did not work, plus to be fair about 6 no-extra-charge return visits with no luck yet). Cheers
@@HaxbyShed Hi Paul, yes x ray specs indeed, very powerful. I'm wondering whether it would detect plastic water pipes, the detectors that you can buy are ok for copper, it would be easy to drill into them ..... er just asking for friend like🤐🤐..... Well I'll own up. It was a lesson learnt the hard way. That leak sounds a difficult one to detect, best of luck with that. All the best
@@davidberlanny3308 David the thermal cam is very sensitive to temperature variations so if you run cold or hot for a while I think it would show in the wall/ceiling/floor. If you send me an email I can send you some pictures of the my glowing CH pipes. Cheers
It's the Engineers attention to detail on these little projects, Paul. Builders and building tradesmen cannot understand it at all, their mantra being "do it as cheap as possible." All of the rooms that we battened out and lowered the ceilings on at the top of the house got 100mm of Celotex or Kingspan between the battens and then I used the foam backed plasterboard, with 40mm of foam over the top to prevent cold bridging as much as possible. The foam backed plasterboard would be a suitable product to go over the top of some of your boxing I think, although it's a pain to get the "mitres" right on the outside corners, the adhesive foam works well to both fix and fill. Funnily enough I was only using a can of the Soudal lower expansion foam yesterday to fill the gap between the conservatory window frame and house wall. Its worked well.
Hi Bill, I'm sure the builders do a good enough job on new builds such as extensions which are checked by the council building inspector. Last year our daughter had an extension at the rear of her house and another into the roof and the thermal cam showed the insulation was pretty good all round. How many UK houses remain basically uninsulated do you think? I hear the boiler industries arguing that the Government grants would be better spent on insulation than heat pumps and solar but surely there can't be many lofts now with no insulation? Maybe there are still cavity walls and flat roofs which could be a relatively easy job. But for many pre cavity wall houses the practical and affordable options must be limited. Cheers
Great attention to detail & you are right, assuming you could get anyone interested to do it, it's not worth paying someone to do this type of work. DIY is the only way. I have a similar jobs to do. Extra 200mm insulation & flooring in my loft. I also have a bedroom over an unheated garage which, by the feel of it, has no insulation in the bedroom floor. Not sure whether to tackle that one from above (empty the room & lift carpet & T&G chipboard flooring in the bedroom) or, from below in the garage (dropping or drilling holes in an unfinished plasterboard ceiling). I'm leaning towards the latter but either way it's going to be messy because both rooms are rammed with stuff. I guess I could blow in some insulation beads but concerned these may get into places I don't want. I also have a internal cavity wall in the attached garage which, unlike the rest of the house, is not insulated - beads or pepper the wall with holes & inject lots of foam. Undecided.
Hi Colin, in a previous house we had an extension over a garage in the 1990s and there was much attention to fireproof boarding so maybe if you insulate you could look at that too. I think we all get adverts from companies offering to do insulation work funded by government grants but if you say well my walls are solid and my loft spaces are in separate 5 parts and you will have to crawl through hatches 18 inch square or remove part of the roof to get in they quickly say "goodbye" and move on for easier money. Cheers
Every little bit counts as it pertains to insulation. Grandkids are the best. Here in the US, putting a junction box behind a wall panel like that would be illegal.
Hi Greg, in the UK you might find junction boxes concealed in wall framing, under suspended floors, in the ceiling void or the loft - basically anywhere. The thermal camera has been an eye opener. I can see the central heating pipes in my floors glowing warm (great for tracing pipes in or under floors) and my daughter is hoping to trace a leak in her roof with it (cold rain water running over 'warm' roof felt). Thanks for your support. Cheers Paul
Hi RB, I put insulation above the white boarding on the ceiling in Haxby Shed. I'm not sure if it makes any difference to heat and comfort but it was worth doing whilst I was up on the ladders and platform anyway. Cheers
Love a bit of insulation but did I spy a junction box? Awful things to which, AIUI, access should be maintained so that the security of the connections can be checked.
Hi Ad, the thermal camera plugs into my phone by the USB C connector. It is a TOPDON TC001. It cost about £160. You operate it from an App called TC001. I have the Android version but there is also an Apple version. Cheers Paul
@haxbyShed , hello Paul, thank you for the information about the infra red camera. i'm not a specialist and also a diy'er, smart idea to pre shape the isolation in the garden, i searched a lot on you-tube about energy and isolation, i've seen many video's, some useful and others not, there is a video i can't find it again, they explained something how isolation works, here in the Netherlands is a Rc value foor the roof 6. (for new build homes). In fact you should remove all tiles and close all small gaps with a litlle foam, and then fill the whole space with glass-wool. Not that easy, but you have already a good result. There is another thing: video's are informing over damp-open and damp-close foil, search for yourself about this, its a bit complicated, what i now is that the glass wool has a better isolation when the wind isn't able to push trough the material, i will search for this video later and let you know, i hope you understand my "English"...Greetings from the other side of the Northsee.
Hi Ad, your English is good. No problem at all. I am ashamed to say I do not know a single word of Dutch - although I have seen that many words are recognisable to me if I know the context. Historically there is a strong connection between British and Dutch people and at one time even our king and queen were Dutch (I'm sure you know this already). Cheers
@@HaxbyShed Hello Paul, thank you, for you there is no need to speak some dutch, we are such a small country, i'm a bit jealous about the fact that english is not my "mothers language". keep going !
Hiya Dcraft, there is a gravity flap which drops down when the fan is not running. The extractor gets a lot of dust and fluff in it and clogs from time to time so I can't say how reliable that flap is really when the fluff builds up. Cheers
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Builders don't care or don't understand, insulation must be continous and tight fitting! You did an excellent job in difficult circumstances!
Phil
Hi Phil, I may do another insulation vid in my loft but it is very old, dark and creepy. Even spiders won't go in there, because they are scared ...... 🕷️🕸️
Interesting to see what you have done. These things are never simple. Thanks for sharing.
broglet, true. In my experience nothing is simple, especially if somebody has been there before you. Cheers.
Nice job with the nip and tucks around the house. It makes a difference !!
It does Alan. Hope you are keeping well. Cheers
Thanks, that's a really great explanation of how you solved this problem. I have a similar challenge I'm planning to work on with my house, so this has given me lots of ideas and inspiration.
Ah good. Glad it was useful. Won't save much money but the comfort level may be improved. Cheers
I too had a quick Honey do project this week. My 22 year old cloths dryer got over heated and fried the safety over heat sensor. Hope it's ok, but had to mention you during the repair (@@)! I have also put off due to cost relace 5 single pane window, If I would stop buys machinist tools, well that another story 😞! Love seeing your grand kids enjoying their papa, they grow up too quickly, don't they ! Thx for the DIY Paul.
Hi Bear, we got rid of our dryer in favour of an indoor clothes rail which pulls up into the apex of that vaulted kitchen ceiling, like my granny used to have. But the conversation in our house used to go something like this ..... Wife: "the dryer is not working". Me: "it's overheated, did you clean out the fluff in the condenser?". Wife: "I usually do......." To be fair she always did after the first couple of times the safety heat sensor popped, but it's a job I am familiar with. Take care, regards Paul
Thank you for posting this. Whilst we live in a much newer house than yours there is virtually no insulation (yet) so watching how you've analysed heat loss and how you've decided to improve things is very helpful. Your TH-cam style is much appreciated too!
It would be interesting to know if your hard work has made a noticeable difference to how comfortable your house has become and if you've seen a reduction of energy usage...
Hi Bridevalley, I've done a lot of insulation work on this house over the the years and you will see some of that in my videos HS165 and HS226. Overall it has made a lot of differenced to this circa 1820 property to the point where our bills are really no more than the average. But it's been a case of chipping away at it room by room over 15 years or so doing something about worst areas where I can get the most benefit for the work/cost. Cheers
Great job , no doubt every small improvement will result in a warmer house. Hopefully less overall cost in regard to your heating bill.Take care and say hi to your assistants 👍👍
Hi Paul, the kids are comical. I can feel the heat draw from a cold wall or a falling cool current very easily so just insulating that boxed-in area in the loo makes a lot of difference in a narrow room. It terms of saving money, well really there is no business case for insulating a small area given the cost of materials these days. But incrementally it does add up if you work your way around all the issues in all the rooms. Cheers
Can never have enough insulation, but as you correctly state it's important to maintain ventilation in roofing zones. Always enjoy these DIY projects :)
Ah thank you Paul. I could probably do one more insulation project vid but it involves crawling into some pretty creepy and spooky restricted narrow spaces in my loft. We'll see. Cheers
Hi Paul, very enjoyable video. Its really interesting to see what camera reveals. In one of the clips I think I could see the outline of the brick structure.
You could have had a nice n gauge loft railway in that space .... getting in and out might have been tricky though😅😅.
Two new additions to the cast as well👏👏
Have a great weekend!!
Hi David, the thermal cam is like x-ray specs. Yes you can see all the mortar between the blocks and it would be useful for locating 'hardpoints' for fixing plugs and screws. The mortar will be stronger than the Thermalite blocks. I can see my heating pipe runs in the concrete floors glowing lovely yellow. Also will be handy to find hot and cold pipes running up walls so I don't stick a nail through them. My daughter hopes to find a roof leak where I am sure the cold rain water is running down on the topside of the felt, but under the tiles, and emerging at the bottom of the roof slope and thence running down a bedroom wall. It's proving to be an absolute sod to find where the bad tile is and the roofer wants to charge her £3.5k to redo the whole valley and feeder slopes (having already charged her £1200 for a 'fix' that did not work, plus to be fair about 6 no-extra-charge return visits with no luck yet). Cheers
@@HaxbyShed Hi Paul, yes x ray specs indeed, very powerful.
I'm wondering whether it would detect plastic water pipes, the detectors that you can buy are ok for copper, it would be easy to drill into them ..... er just asking for friend like🤐🤐..... Well I'll own up. It was a lesson learnt the hard way.
That leak sounds a difficult one to detect, best of luck with that.
All the best
@@davidberlanny3308 David the thermal cam is very sensitive to temperature variations so if you run cold or hot for a while I think it would show in the wall/ceiling/floor. If you send me an email I can send you some pictures of the my glowing CH pipes. Cheers
It's the Engineers attention to detail on these little projects, Paul. Builders and building tradesmen cannot understand it at all, their mantra being "do it as cheap as possible." All of the rooms that we battened out and lowered the ceilings on at the top of the house got 100mm of Celotex or Kingspan between the battens and then I used the foam backed plasterboard, with 40mm of foam over the top to prevent cold bridging as much as possible. The foam backed plasterboard would be a suitable product to go over the top of some of your boxing I think, although it's a pain to get the "mitres" right on the outside corners, the adhesive foam works well to both fix and fill. Funnily enough I was only using a can of the Soudal lower expansion foam yesterday to fill the gap between the conservatory window frame and house wall. Its worked well.
Hi Bill, I'm sure the builders do a good enough job on new builds such as extensions which are checked by the council building inspector. Last year our daughter had an extension at the rear of her house and another into the roof and the thermal cam showed the insulation was pretty good all round. How many UK houses remain basically uninsulated do you think? I hear the boiler industries arguing that the Government grants would be better spent on insulation than heat pumps and solar but surely there can't be many lofts now with no insulation? Maybe there are still cavity walls and flat roofs which could be a relatively easy job. But for many pre cavity wall houses the practical and affordable options must be limited. Cheers
@@HaxbyShed Hi Paul, go to the New Home Quality Control TH-cam channel for some new build horrors.
good job.
cheers ben.
Thanks Ben. Cheers
Great attention to detail & you are right, assuming you could get anyone interested to do it, it's not worth paying someone to do this type of work. DIY is the only way.
I have a similar jobs to do. Extra 200mm insulation & flooring in my loft. I also have a bedroom over an unheated garage which, by the feel of it, has no insulation in the bedroom floor. Not sure whether to tackle that one from above (empty the room & lift carpet & T&G chipboard flooring in the bedroom) or, from below in the garage (dropping or drilling holes in an unfinished plasterboard ceiling). I'm leaning towards the latter but either way it's going to be messy because both rooms are rammed with stuff. I guess I could blow in some insulation beads but concerned these may get into places I don't want. I also have a internal cavity wall in the attached garage which, unlike the rest of the house, is not insulated - beads or pepper the wall with holes & inject lots of foam. Undecided.
Hi Colin, in a previous house we had an extension over a garage in the 1990s and there was much attention to fireproof boarding so maybe if you insulate you could look at that too. I think we all get adverts from companies offering to do insulation work funded by government grants but if you say well my walls are solid and my loft spaces are in separate 5 parts and you will have to crawl through hatches 18 inch square or remove part of the roof to get in they quickly say "goodbye" and move on for easier money. Cheers
Every little bit counts as it pertains to insulation. Grandkids are the best. Here in the US, putting a junction box behind a wall panel like that would be illegal.
Hi Greg, in the UK you might find junction boxes concealed in wall framing, under suspended floors, in the ceiling void or the loft - basically anywhere. The thermal camera has been an eye opener. I can see the central heating pipes in my floors glowing warm (great for tracing pipes in or under floors) and my daughter is hoping to trace a leak in her roof with it (cold rain water running over 'warm' roof felt). Thanks for your support. Cheers Paul
Hi Paul. I appreciate you showing your home improvement DIY efforts. Always interesting and inspiring. Thank you. 👍😀
Good vid. thx.
Thank you 👍
It's amazing just how much heat is lost in ceiling spaces. So next on the list the work shop, ones work is never done
Hi RB, I put insulation above the white boarding on the ceiling in Haxby Shed. I'm not sure if it makes any difference to heat and comfort but it was worth doing whilst I was up on the ladders and platform anyway. Cheers
Love a bit of insulation but did I spy a junction box? Awful things to which, AIUI, access should be maintained so that the security of the connections can be checked.
Hi Richard, got lots of hidden junction boxes in our house. 😮🙄 Cheers
@@HaxbyShed Likeswise here until I replaced them with MF connectors!
Hallo Paul, which infra red camera do you use ?, i suppose something on your phone ?
Hi Ad, the thermal camera plugs into my phone by the USB C connector. It is a TOPDON TC001. It cost about £160. You operate it from an App called TC001. I have the Android version but there is also an Apple version. Cheers Paul
@haxbyShed , hello Paul, thank you for the information about the infra red camera. i'm not a specialist and also a diy'er, smart idea to pre shape the isolation in the garden, i searched a lot on you-tube about energy and isolation, i've seen many video's, some useful and others not, there is a video i can't find it again, they explained something how isolation works, here in the Netherlands is a Rc value foor the roof 6. (for new build homes). In fact you should remove all tiles and close all small gaps with a litlle foam, and then fill the whole space with glass-wool. Not that easy, but you have already a good result. There is another thing: video's are informing over damp-open and damp-close foil, search for yourself about this, its a bit complicated, what i now is that the glass wool has a better isolation when the wind isn't able to push trough the material, i will search for this video later and let you know, i hope you understand my "English"...Greetings from the other side of the Northsee.
Hi Ad, your English is good. No problem at all. I am ashamed to say I do not know a single word of Dutch - although I have seen that many words are recognisable to me if I know the context. Historically there is a strong connection between British and Dutch people and at one time even our king and queen were Dutch (I'm sure you know this already). Cheers
@@HaxbyShed Hello Paul, thank you, for you there is no need to speak some dutch, we are such a small country, i'm a bit jealous about the fact that english is not my "mothers language". keep going !
I'd wager a lot of cold air comes down that vent pipe into the room.
Hiya Dcraft, there is a gravity flap which drops down when the fan is not running. The extractor gets a lot of dust and fluff in it and clogs from time to time so I can't say how reliable that flap is really when the fluff builds up. Cheers