As I have reported earlier, we currently live in a Victorian house, it's 125 years old. Heat conservation by insulation was not a big thing in those days, so the walls do not have cavities and the lofts (there are two) have inadequate insulation. As a result, the walls and ceilings are cold in winter and it takes a lot of gas to heat the house. But things have changed and insulation is a priority, not only for comfort and costs but also to save Carbon. Now it's not possible to add cavities to the walls, but it certainly is possible to insulate the loft. The British government realises this and subsidises (for DIY only) loft insulation, sold in rolls of a sort of fluffy blanket made out of recycled PET bottles. A set of 3 rolls roll of 5m2 in total therefore only costs £3.
It is thus not surprising that we set out to put some insulation into one of the lofts (the other one is OK). First the loft needed to be cleared from a lot of old building rubble and then Gwilym applied 3 rolls of insulation. As there is not enough space for 2 people to crawl around on the joists and under the roofline, my job was mainly to take bags of rubble down and hand rolls of insulation and tools up. After a week, the job is done. And the house is cleaned because you certainly get a lot of dust coming down!
Next I'll write a post on a walk in Kew Gardens we did this afternoon. It felt like spring, 15C, but as its only 23 February that is being a bit optimistic!
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