Four ways to insulate your floor.
How to insulate ground floor floorboards.
Where insulation cannot be installed from below say above a jetty insulating above a suspended timber floor prevents damage to floorboards caused by lifting them.
By their very nature traditional solid floors may be slightly damp as the tiles bricks or flags that form their surface are in direct contact with the ground below.
Inspect your floor framing and measure the thickness of the existing insulation if any.
How to insulate a solid floor.
3 multiply the total inches of insulation by 3 2 to estimate the existing r value of your floor.
Insulating a suspended timber floor.
Add an insulating layer.
Generally speaking you only need to insulate the ground floor.
A disadvantage can be an unacceptable raising of the floor level necessitating step ups or alterations to details at door openings electrical sockets etc.
A suspended timber floor tends to be cold and draughty because of the air circulating beneath it.
Installing any amount of insulation will warm the floorboards and go a long way towards eliminating draughts.
The effect is a greater sense of comfort and that in turn allows the homeowner to turn the.
I live in a semi detached 2 bed victorian terraced house and i want to take off the carpet in the ground floor living room and sand the original floor.
Draught proofing simply use sealant or caulking to fill the gaps between your floorboards and between skirting boards and the floor.
Insulating your ground floor is a great way to keep your property warm.
For this reason the floor must be able to breathe otherwise moisture will be trapped potentially resulting in damp problems within your home.
In this video i insulate the floor on the ground floor of my house i am slowly insulating the house so when i do the loft rebuild the whole house is up to current building regulations and beyond.