Hi everyone,
Thought I'd just check if anybody has experience of insulating a house using Airfoam? We're looking at insulating the walls of our PPoR, which is a 1930's weatherboard place with an extension built in the late 90's.
The extension has some batts in the south & west wall but none in the north-facing wall. It was built by/for a joiner who lived here with his family for at least 5 years afterwards, so was doing it to what he thought best rather than cheapest (apparently - we have differing opinions of some of his choices elsewhere).
Leaving aside the question of legal liability for not having put batts in when it was done because we understand anything built since 1991 should have had them, my question is whether it would be a good idea to fill the north facing wall of the extension as well as the original part of the house or if we might as well leave it unfilled? Would we capture more heat on sunny days than we lose through it in the evenings?
I think I may have just answered my own question - we don't need to capture heat on sunny days do we, we should be worrying about losing heat on cold days/evenings. But any thoughts welcome.
Ream
Thought I'd just check if anybody has experience of insulating a house using Airfoam? We're looking at insulating the walls of our PPoR, which is a 1930's weatherboard place with an extension built in the late 90's.
The extension has some batts in the south & west wall but none in the north-facing wall. It was built by/for a joiner who lived here with his family for at least 5 years afterwards, so was doing it to what he thought best rather than cheapest (apparently - we have differing opinions of some of his choices elsewhere).
Leaving aside the question of legal liability for not having put batts in when it was done because we understand anything built since 1991 should have had them, my question is whether it would be a good idea to fill the north facing wall of the extension as well as the original part of the house or if we might as well leave it unfilled? Would we capture more heat on sunny days than we lose through it in the evenings?
I think I may have just answered my own question - we don't need to capture heat on sunny days do we, we should be worrying about losing heat on cold days/evenings. But any thoughts welcome.
Ream
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