I know this has probably been done to death, but the advice and recommendations also seem to change over the years with introduction of new products, etc. Anyway, my DPC/DPM seems to have been done wrong, but I just wanted to ask what I should do next to make it work.
It's a small garden room with a 2 course brink plinth, DPC, and then timber sole plate. The floor is concrete slab, 100mm Kingspan PIR, DPM and then 70mm screed. I thought common practice was to tuck the DPM under the DPC, but mine is the other way around:
I'm about to start taping the insulation around the studwork and then I'm going fully envelope the room with a VCL stapled in place. The question is, how do I treat the transition between the DPC, DPM and VCL at the floor? The DPC edge plunges under the screed, so the DPM comes up over it. Should I bother using a double sided butyl tape to seal these membranes together where exposed? Or should I drop the VCL down the walls and sandwich it between those layers at the floor? Or should the VCL instead be taped over the top of the DPM, so that it is the top layer?
It's a small garden room with a 2 course brink plinth, DPC, and then timber sole plate. The floor is concrete slab, 100mm Kingspan PIR, DPM and then 70mm screed. I thought common practice was to tuck the DPM under the DPC, but mine is the other way around:
I'm about to start taping the insulation around the studwork and then I'm going fully envelope the room with a VCL stapled in place. The question is, how do I treat the transition between the DPC, DPM and VCL at the floor? The DPC edge plunges under the screed, so the DPM comes up over it. Should I bother using a double sided butyl tape to seal these membranes together where exposed? Or should I drop the VCL down the walls and sandwich it between those layers at the floor? Or should the VCL instead be taped over the top of the DPM, so that it is the top layer?