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Prolly available elsewhere but B&Q have been promoting it recently. I
bought a roll to try and thought I'd offer a heads-up on it. It is, as it says on the tin, completely non-irritating (well; unless you have some allergy to the stuff it's made of: it's not itchy like glass fibre or rockwool). It's a bit like wool fleece, and its fibres are considerably stronger than glass fibre & rockwool. This would make it good for lagging pipework, tanks, cylinders etc where it wouldn't fall apart like glass fibre or rockwool. However its strength is a serious disadvantage for insulating stud walls or ceilings. A small bit of the wool caught between plasterboard and stud where you're trying to fix the board with a plasterboard screw is likely to wrap itself around the screw thread and pull in more and more fibre until it builds up into a big wodge which holds the board away from the stud, or breaks a chunk of board and/or pulls it away if it's already screwed down nearby. Not a problem if one nails the board rather than screws it but still a problem anytime anyone tries to drill into the board: the fibre will wrap round the drill bit. I personally will stick to using it for lagging plumbing. -- John Stumbles I used to be forgetful but now I ... um .... |
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