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Installing insulation between 1st floor joists
Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.23 PM
I am looking to install acoustic rockwool insulation (or something similar), between the 1st floor joists of my house. The current flooring looks like its tongue and groove hardboard (chipboard?), and the ceiling below is plasterboard with Artex finish (house built in 1999). I will be hiring a tradesperson to do the work. I understand that either the hardboard flooring needs to be lifted / re-laid, or the plasterboard ceiling needs to be removed and replaced, but which approach is "better"? i.e., should I be looking for a carpenter or a dry wall fitter / plasterer? Thanks
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4 Answers
Anonymous user
Hi to answer your question me personally I would take the wooden floor up if the ceiling below has been Plastered already
Answered28 June 2021
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Pro Carpentry
Rating: 4.9 out of 5
I would definitely take up the chipboard flooring!
Answered6 July 2021
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Anonymous user
I would take the timber flooring up because artex can contain artex and it wasn’t banned until 1999 so it could fall into that bracket.
Answered29 June 2021
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Trade mate builders
Rating: 4.8 out of 5
I would do neither. I would get an injection system make a few holes in the ceiling which were about 10 mm and fill up with insulation that way. You can hire a machine yourself from all good hire services. Drill the holes and fill it up yourself afterwards just fill the hole even easy filler rubdown and paint
Answered13 July 2021
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