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Hi all,
We live in a chalet style house where the bedrooms are essentially in the roof. The bedroom walls are stud with uninsulated plasterboard. The studs are visible from the eaves side of the wall and would seem easy enough to put some flexible batt insulation in here, was thinking wood fibre. However I know you should really put in a vapour barrier then the insulation. Our loft has 270mm insulation with no vapour barrier and no sign of condensation or mould there. Therefore was wondering if can omit VBL from stud walls. Logic being, if there is no condensation issue in loft why would there be in eaves. Eaves and loft share same air. I've attached an image of the house layout and proposed walls to insulate.
Other option of to insulate roof via rafters but for some reason I'm less keen on that idea. Maybe because it seems more difficult. Thanks for any advice on this.
We live in a chalet style house where the bedrooms are essentially in the roof. The bedroom walls are stud with uninsulated plasterboard. The studs are visible from the eaves side of the wall and would seem easy enough to put some flexible batt insulation in here, was thinking wood fibre. However I know you should really put in a vapour barrier then the insulation. Our loft has 270mm insulation with no vapour barrier and no sign of condensation or mould there. Therefore was wondering if can omit VBL from stud walls. Logic being, if there is no condensation issue in loft why would there be in eaves. Eaves and loft share same air. I've attached an image of the house layout and proposed walls to insulate.
Other option of to insulate roof via rafters but for some reason I'm less keen on that idea. Maybe because it seems more difficult. Thanks for any advice on this.
