Types of insulation now mass - polystyrene, expanded polystyrene, polyurethane foam, fiberglass. Their price and quality can be listed for a long time, but for now we will dwell on the most common option - the insulation of the attic with mineral wool. It's easy to work with, you will not need special skills. The material is relatively inexpensive, soft and perfectly suited for sloping ceilings.
Warming of a cold attic
- First of all, we will install hydro and wind protection. This peculiar membrane does not allow penetration of moisture into our insulation from the outside.
- The material is lapped, after which all joints must be glued with a reliable building tape.
- We will place the insulation between the elements of the roof frame.
- We measure the distance that the neighboring rafters separate.
- What good is the roll insulation material? It can be easily cut into two halves using a conventional knife.
- Now you can simply roll it out and insulate the roof slope.
- Well, when the distance between the rafters is standard and is 610 mm, then the halves of the roll fit perfectly, and you do not have to suffer. But most of the old houses were built when there was still no such insulation. But it does not create big problems with the warming of the walls and roof of the attic, as it is perfectly cut into slabs of the right size. Just leave the allowances about 1 cm more.
- The web material is extremely elastic and is installed without prior fastening. And allowances allow you to close all the cracks, even if your rafters will not stand perfectly parallel.
- Next, we install a vapor barrier membrane along the outer edge of the rafters. We fix it overlapping with a stapler to the wooden beams.
- All joints are glued with adhesive tape or mounting tape.
- Here we can not do without an additional rebroadcast.
- It will enable us to provide between the inner lining and the membrane a gap of 15-25 mm.
- The cladding becomes a frame, to which it is possible to screw gipsokartonnye sheets of internal lining.
- Now the attic will be a quiet and warm place, where you can equip any additional room at will.
A huge mass of heat flies up, and often the owners of private homes warm the atmosphere, and not their home. In addition, new technologies for the construction of pitched roofs make it possible to easily convert any loft into a cozy magnificent attic. The rise in energy prices pushes people to think about this problem. Therefore, the insulation of the floor of the attic and the roof is worried by more and more people, and we also can not pass by such a topical problem.