I want to insulate this room tomorrow,
then spend the winter studying how to insulate the other rooms
and mending the roof and drains etc...

It's a bedroom upstairs,,
double brick walls to the other rooms,
a wide stone covered wall to the outside,
a metal framed window,
floorboards with old plaster on the cold room ceiling below,
a chimney with a small wood and coal rayburn
and a door with quite a draught under it.

if i go to b+q and the local yards tomorrow
and buy some boards of some kind
and glue them to the ceieling and walls and floor
what kind of boards should i buy?

maybe next year i'll do the other rooms properly,
but i'd like to be warm in one room this winter!

thanks


[george].

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:22:53 -0800, wrote:

I want to insulate this room tomorrow, then spend the winter studying
how to insulate the other rooms and mending the roof and drains etc...

It's a bedroom upstairs,,
double brick walls to the other rooms, a wide stone covered wall to the
outside, a metal framed window,
floorboards with old plaster on the cold room ceiling below, a chimney
with a small wood and coal rayburn and a door with quite a draught under
it.

if i go to b+q and the local yards tomorrow and buy some boards of some
kind
and glue them to the ceieling and walls and floor what kind of boards
should i buy?

maybe next year i'll do the other rooms properly, but i'd like to be
warm in one room this winter!

thanks


[george].
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Start with a good draught excluder on the draughty door. Visit your local
discount carpet shop and buy a piece of felt / felt-backed carpet which is
quite reasonably priced, easy to lay loose and almost completely
draught-proof. Get a piece large enough to cover the entire floor.

If this is to be a temporary measure you could put polystyrene tiles on
the ceiling. They're cheap and if anybody sees them you can blame somebody
else for their presence.

Re-assess the situation regarding wall boards when you've stopped the
draughts.

Cic.

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"Cicero" wrote


If this is to be a temporary measure you could put polystyrene tiles on
the ceiling. They're cheap and if anybody sees them you can blame somebody
else for their presence.

Even ignoring all the usual regulations, the OP mentioned a wood burner, so
that puts polystyrene well out of the equation

Phil

On 13 Nov, 21:22, "
wrote:
I want to insulate this room tomorrow,
then spend the winter studying how to insulate the other rooms
and mending the roof and drains etc...

It's a bedroom upstairs,,
double brick walls to the other rooms,
a wide stone covered wall to the outside,
a metal framed window,
floorboards with old plaster on the cold room ceiling below,
a chimney with a small wood and coal rayburn
and a door with quite a draught under it.

if i go to b+q and the local yards tomorrow
and buy some boards of some kind
and glue them to the ceieling and walls and floor
what kind of boards should i buy?

maybe next year i'll do the other rooms properly,
but i'd like to be warm in one room this winter!

thanks

[george].

As the other poster said, first stop the draughts. Use a nail on brush
strip for the bottom of the door (after you have laid some cheap
carpet) and foam draught excluder around the door frame.
Is the chimney open? if it is then warm air will disappear straight up
it, close it off if you can or seal the gap around the flue pipe.
Rig up temporary secondary double glazing with plastic sheeting, there
used to be a product that tightened up when hot air from a blow drier
was applied.
Hang thick curtains.
If you are in a room at the top then get some rockwool insulation laid
above the room in the loft.
Hopefully that will do because lining the walls and ceilings with foam
backed plasterboard means taking off skirtings, electrical fittings,
covings, architraves... a very big job really.
Good luck and wear a wooly hat.

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:31:48 +0000, TheScullster wrote:


"Cicero" wrote


If this is to be a temporary measure you could put polystyrene tiles on
the ceiling. They're cheap and if anybody sees them you can blame
somebody else for their presence.

Even ignoring all the usual regulations, the OP mentioned a wood burner,
so that puts polystyrene well out of the equation

Phil

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Which 'usual regulations' govern how one *decorates* one's own house?


Cic.

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