Why I'm procrastinating over cooking
Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts |
This is on the wall in the kitchen. Funny angle. It reads a mite over 5°C. It was just below five, but now I’m frying stuff and that makes a small amount of heat. This time six months ago, I’d be sitting out in the hammock as the day starts to draw to a close. <sob!> |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts |
Given comments elsewhere about rurality – Solid stone wall? Standard insulation method is, I believe, to add a plasterboard inner wall (with foil reflector surface)1 and pin insulating material between the real wall and the new liner. 1 Assuming such things exist in your locale |
Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts |
Solid stone on the outside. The kitchen is one of the newer (thinner) walls. It is only about 60-70cm thick.1 This is on a sort-of-cement interior wall.
The newer work (bedrooms) was “dry lining” which is, as you say, a plasterboard inner wall. No insulating material. In this type of house, you do not add insulation. The wall needs to breathe, not have insulation stuffed all over it. 1 WiFi reception is poor in the bedroom, only maybe seven metres from the Livebox, because a metre and a half of that is a very solid wall. The original gable end, from 14xx or so, before they even had right angles sorted. ;-) |