At last – some wall insulation – I can’t believe it’s taken 7 months to reach this point!

In Hull, I used 100mm wood-fibre boards, finished with a single coat of lime plaster applied directly to the boards.  Reasonably simple really.

That would be too easy though.

These days, they don’t recommend thicker than 60mm in a single layer.  So get a decent level of insulation NatureWall was specified. It’s built up like this:

• remove old plaster, take it back to brick/block
• clay plaster – base coat to level & fill gaps
• air tightness – draught proofing tape around windows, doors, pipes, wires etc.
• wood-fibre board – 60mm rigid wood-fibre – old school natural insulation
• vapour check membrane – to prevent moist air from living spaces getting into the wall and causing condensation on the cold side of the insulation
• stud wall – 40mm timber posts
• flexible wood-fibre – insulation in the stud wall, between the posts
• plaster board – conventional
• plaster – skim coat finish