Many places have a long experience in dealing with cold, which my country lacks, hence I’m asking here for advice. The default solution was either endure it or burn more wood.
I may be able to shave off one or two centimeters of the total volume required as the walls are currently covered with a very thick layer of cement that was set with no concern to prior levelling the stone (in places where the mortars started to fail I chipped away to clear the loose material and there are spots where 2 to 3cm of cement could be saved just by grinding away an edge of a stone) but going by the solutions my market has available, I risk needing to layer up to 10cm of material on my walls.
I do intend to insulate floor and ceillings as they will be, for all practical purposes, rebuilt, as the current wood floors are thin.
The house is squeezed between a pedestrian street, where I can’t encroach, as there is little room already, and another house. I do have one wall I intend to insulate from the outside as it faces an empty plot.
Mineral wool I have been looking into it but I was warned it wicks moisture. Is this true?
Does it look essentially like a piece of drywall lined with styrofoam?
I understand that concern and I intend to improve the thermal efficiency of the house but not at the cost of turning bedrooms into pantries.
The house is really old and there are rooms under 10 square meters; a standard couples bed (140x200cm) will not fit there and even a single bed will make the room feel cramped.
This is an ideal concept but for me a shareholder should be like a private financer that holds an interest on a company that gets sacked the moment the capital they lent is returned with interest.
I could not care less if a company I was invested in stated it was aiming to have a fixed yearly profit of X amount, no more, no less. That would send a clear message the company would be aiming for quality in their products/services and trust with their clients, with no funny ideas behind the scenes to squeeze pennies and dimmes in blood from the employees.
Oh, and as a shareholder, the last thing I would want would be a CEO or whatever chair aiming for bonus: you earn a salary, get benefits, that is it. If you get the boot, you are just another employee, not a rockstar.
The cork I’ve been able to find specifically warns against painting it or covering it in any fashion. I could go for an accent wall on it but it is not a material easy to match and the texture is just off.
I may use cork liner on the floor before setting down wood pavement (I intend to reuse every piece of wood I can manage to salvage) but not on the walls.
And yes, styrofoam is horrendously fragile. At some point you may have to consider replacing parts of it, which apparently is very easy, but just putting up such a fragile material doesn’t make sense for me.
As an aspiring dog trainer and an overall dog person, every single time this wikipedia article comes around makes me want to grab a very large club and bludgeon the next sorry ass I see mistreating a dog in the slightest way.