HexusOdy
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In the coming months I will take over an outbuilding at my in laws as a workshop. Because I lost my garage to a domestic conversion and the in laws owe me for various jobs I've done for them
It needs a lot of work to make it functional. Much of it is cleaning but it also requires a new floor (currently some uneven brick thing) and insulating, which is my question for today.
The current roof is a standard clay pantile roof and as a barn built a 100 years ago or more it didn't require felting. As many of you know pantiles are generally good for keeping rain out, not so much for wind and dirt that comes in horizontally. Having had a garage workshop that was pretty unusable in winter I want to make sure this one is warm and dry.
Any ideas for keeping out unwanted water (from bad storms) and keeping the heat in? I've thought about felting some OSB then nailing that to the underside of the rafters. But there would be joints I can't tape from above and water has a habit of going just where you don't want it to.
Foil backed celotex is a similar option, I can take it underneath as usual but again there is the chance water could get into the joints from above, although I think the celotex would handle it better than OSB.
Any ideas or practical experience with this?
It needs a lot of work to make it functional. Much of it is cleaning but it also requires a new floor (currently some uneven brick thing) and insulating, which is my question for today.
The current roof is a standard clay pantile roof and as a barn built a 100 years ago or more it didn't require felting. As many of you know pantiles are generally good for keeping rain out, not so much for wind and dirt that comes in horizontally. Having had a garage workshop that was pretty unusable in winter I want to make sure this one is warm and dry.
Any ideas for keeping out unwanted water (from bad storms) and keeping the heat in? I've thought about felting some OSB then nailing that to the underside of the rafters. But there would be joints I can't tape from above and water has a habit of going just where you don't want it to.
Foil backed celotex is a similar option, I can take it underneath as usual but again there is the chance water could get into the joints from above, although I think the celotex would handle it better than OSB.
Any ideas or practical experience with this?