Hi,
In antiquity our newborn home, we are today hunting at insulation. We hit been told by everyone around us that detachment is the key, if we poverty an forcefulness economical home.
My discourse is, crapper you hit likewise such insulation? We are supported in Wales, UK, so I actualise that we are not just favored with the defy but I also don’t poverty to springy in a sauna by feat over the crowning with the insulation!
I undergo we are feat to hit detachment in the roof/cavity and threefold glazing everyplace but crapper you ever over modify a concern this way?
Also, does anyone hit some undergo of using bamboo flooring? Is it harder to place downbound that another vegetation level or has anyone had some problems with it after a punctuation of time.
Thanks!
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Hi, Harri, greetings from the colonies. I live in New England.It gets a tad chilly here.. What are you going to use for wall studs??? If you use 2 x 4 construction use 4″ insulation, like wise if you use 2×6 walls use 6″ ins..Make sure,contractors are sloppy, that the insulation is tight to the top and to the bottom of each bay. Leave no holes or gaps. If you stuff 6″ ins in a 4″ bay it will compress the ins. If it is compressed it, in essence, becomes more like a solid and defeats the ins. value…You cannot make it to tight. The better the ins the better the comfort and more even the heat.. The attic should have about 10″ of ins.. either blown in or in tightly fitting batts.Type in Owens Corning or whatever English companies there are and request info on their products..A little research now could save a bunch on your heating bill’s..Hope you enjoy your new home..Bamboo floors, exotic hard material..Don’t know a thing about it…..Buzz
Insulation is a serious consideration for the new homes of the 21st century! You are wise to consider it.
Over-insulation is not possible. So the simple answer to your question is that no, you cannot over-heat your home by going for broke.
Insulation is not the creating of an airtight box, but rather the ensuring that heat you create with the use of central heating or direct heating (fires etc) is not lost via the traditional “weak” spots in your home.
The greatest loss of heat is via the windows. Obviously you know this. Roof voids are also big issues, predominantly for heat lost through the top rooms.
By ensuring that the windows and walls are well insulated and that the roof has plenty of insulation you are going to need to heat less, yes. But considering that you are likely to be looking at regulated central heating you are going to save, not overheat your home. Basically the regulator will cut off the boiler sooner because less of the heat output is lost due to poor insulation. So- easier to heat and quicker too! This is where the saving is.
Overheating or airlessness is an issue only where the heating is unregulated, turned up too high and where you never open doors and windows or have approved ventilation underfloor and etc.
So- no more airless or overly hot than a less well insulated house with more heating.
HOWEVER- you DO need to balance ventilation with insulation just as much as you would have to without. Seen that news feature about the students and the cold house with mould? Heh- their “home” has inadequate ventilation regardless of the fact that it is NOT heated or well enough insulated (note how the young lady reported that they see their breath on a morning!).
So- over insulation is not the issue. Inadequate temperature control and/or ventilation could be.
Bamboo flooring- it is likely you are talking of the click-fit flooring from someplace like Homebase?
I have actually bought (not yet fitted) bamboo real wood flooring and know, from having grown up in India where it is used a lot, that it is a harder wood than most hard woods we’d normally use. It is a fairly “glassy” wood and as such has a very good capacity to withstand fairly strong use.
How good a flooring your bamboo flooring is probably also depends on the quality (price?).
And that is the only thing- because of the smaller surface area of bamboo it is a patchwork wood and seams are always a point of weakness.
The better the quality the less an issue it will be. As you will appreciate.
You can over insulate. Insulation should not be packed to tightly, or you may end up with it sweating. this will cause moisture problems.
I have installed a few bamboo floors over the years, and they have all stood up well. It is hard like oak, and installs the same way.
you cannot use to much insulation in the loft, it is usualy sold in rolls get the thickest and lay it between the joists, the house will not become a sauna, you will just use less energy to heat the house get a thermostat fitted to the heating system set the tempreture and when it reaches that heat, your boiler will cut off untill the house cools down, more insulation = less heating bills