Insulating a shed?

craker

My shed is getting awesome. Fact. I've just put some of our office carpet tiles down which gives it a nice homely feel.

Can anyone suggest a cost effective way of insulating the walls and roof? It's sections of preformed concrete on the walls and a corrugated (asbestos?) pitched roof. The eaves are open where the roof beams meet the walls, so they could do with blocking up somehow.

There's a garage door at one end (never used) and, until Mrs C gives me the go ahead to replace it with breeze blocks, it's the coldest leakiest part of the affair.

estampida

I would attach batons to the wall

then mount plaster board to those batons, but you will need an air gap as the garage wall I assume is a wet wall

if there was insulation in-between, it would let the water seep through (it may need some water seal applied)

rafters...... errr...... clear plastic corrugation sheets screwed to the rafters (so the lights can shine through)

or thick poly plastic sheets staple gunned to the rafters close to the roofing..... (wiil keep the storage space in rafters)

rubertoe

As above and if you live near barnet, i have 6 rolls of insulation in my loft!!

MrSweary

Perhaps start by calling it rickety and not very waterproof...






I'm so so sorry....

mudcow007

haven't you got to leave an air flow, to stop mold etc?

Linky

fossyant

Battons and ply possibly !

mattsaw

Any ideas on how to stop spiders getting in :oops:

flimflam_machine

craker wrote:

Can anyone suggest a cost effective way of insulating the walls and roof?

Well, since it's a shed, you could go for the traditional insulation method of huge stacks of porn mags. You'd have to use lots of layers of similarly-themed posters for the roof obviously. The down side is that it would then become a huge fire hazard, but the asbestos should contain that.

rjsterry

There are various manufacturers of insulation materials, and most have websites with information on what products to use in a given situation.

I reckon 1"x2"/25x50mm vertical timber battens (treated) at say, 2'/600mm centres, with a strip of DPC between each batten and the outside wall, then some insulated plasterboard (rigid insulation bonded on to the back of p/board fixed to the battens. Depends how warm you want it, but at least 1"/25mm of insulation and preferably 2"/50mm. Might need some more battens and DPC along the top and bottom. If fixing the battens to the concrete sounds a hassle (it is) then you could make a free standing timber frame (3"x2" should be fine unless you are going to hang stuff off it) spanning from floor to 'ceiling'. Staple gun some breather membrane to the outside (before you fix the frame into position), then stuff the voids with mineral wool and plasterboard or ply the inside.

Oh, and do the roof too; you'll lose far more heat through that than the walls.

asprilla

Mattsaw wrote:

Any ideas on how to stop spiders getting in :oops:

Speak to okgo; last I heard he wouldn't go to his shed unless he was carrying a flamethrower.

SimonAH

Jabolite. Big 'ol eight b four sheets of expanded polystyrene. Ideally in the foil backed incarnation.

Cheaper per square metre than post binge town centre vomit, and more effective at preventing heat loss than massive facial warts are at preventing impromptu pub snogging with Estonian exchange students.

team47b

Insulation is called Isolation here, gotta keep that nasty heat OUT