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[tielan]

Finished one assignment, failed to sign up for another.

Played a good game of hockey, all over the field: I was a wing, I was the centre striker, I was an attacking half, I was a defensive half! The only thing I wasn't was the goalie! (Okay, and the centre half, because I am terrible right in the middle of the field.)

But in the aftermath, everything is OW.

I'm bloody tired and mildly sore and cold cold cold all the way through.

Anyway, this Monday morning, one of the cats is sitting on my mousepad, staring at me. Well, alternating between staring at me and staring at her sister who is on a cushion in front of the heater that I always have on through The Coldest Start To Winter for a number of years now.

I saw a TikTok where this guy pulled his house apart from the inside and insulated the walls, then put the plasterboard back! I kind of wish we'd done that. Or could do that. I was thinking if we could do B1's room, at least, then it wouldn't be so damned extreme. (Her room is the room that has only one side attached to the house and the rest of it is all open and uninsulated.)

I'd do this one room at a time, starting with B1's room. Move her into the study for a week or two, including her bed, and then start pulling the inside walls off. It would be a bit of a nightmare for plaster dust, though. But her room would be insulated at the end of it.

Other rooms would be more difficult to do - the study would be a nightmare because there's just so much to move!

But an internal "pull out the inside plasterboard and insulate" wouldn't require council approval (I think). Internal construction that doesn't require moving of significant weight-bearing beams should be okay. But the details of plastering, etc. would probably be the issue.

It's a thought. If we can't do it all at once, maybe little bits at a time?

We have two new chooks, and they are LAYERS. We've already had 6 eggs from them - and it's the depths of bloody winter! They've been separated out and are going to stay there for at least a month, and then we'll see about integrating them with the others.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Do you have to take off the entire plasterboard to put insulation in? Something I've seen done here in the US is there's insulation which you can BLOW in. They usually do it from outside. They take off one row of siding near the top. They figure out where the studs are. They cut holes in the sheathing between each stud. They put a hose in the hole, blow insulation through the hose until the stud bay is filled up, then move along to the next hole. Then patch the holes and put the siding back on. It's fairly quick and easy and cheap. If there's some reason you couldn't do that on the outside, could you do it from the inside? Patching holes is easier than replacing the plasterboard.

[tielan]

I have heard of that, but I don't know how expensive it is here. A LOT of houses would need it around here, and I can imagine that they'd be in hot demand.

[timespirt]

Liquid foam is the way to go. No taking down walls. In time insulation fails and you have to redo it.