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Week 5: Underfloor insulation arrives

Our underfloor insulation has arrived and is now sitting in a big stack in the dining room. As pictured, a first section has been installed in the front room. It is a hemp batt - not the Warmcell waste paper-based insulation we had thought we might be having. The damp in the walls below our damp proof course has meant that Warmcell isn't suitable. The hemp product is a bit more expensive, but will still give a good insulation result (see http://www.natural-building.co.uk/hemp_natural_insulation.htm for technical details). It'll be good when we have floorboards again, but for the moment we're at the stage of admiring our lovely new joists and other load bearing timbers and imagining how cosy it'll be when the job is finished.