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Default Insulate external door

Jonathan wrote:

On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:48:35 UTC, Fevric J. Glandules wrote:
Helping someone out with this... their back door has a panel in
the lower half which must be all of 2mm thick. I am thinking
to insulate this in some way but cannot decide on the best
material to use. As "not being ugly" is apparently a consideration.

Any thoughts?


On our timber doors I removed the moulding and used bubble wrap followed by another piece of ply


For the benefit of the archives...

I blagged a piece of 11mm thick underlay from a carpet shop and glued it
on to the panel. Then a piece of white-faced ply from B&Q glued and
nailed over the top. Hence from the outside in
- the original ply
- underlay
- an air gap of about 5mm
- another piece of ply
which should represent a thermal barrier...