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    • CommentAuthorShevek
    • CommentTimeJul 9th 2012 edited
     
    This is a preliminary detail for a new insulated slab and EWI to an existing floor (in this are we'll be removing an existing suspended timber floor).

    What should I do about the DPM, chase it into the wall or something (I can't see a DPC in the existing wall)? And what about airtightness, what should I be doing to the plaster where it meets the floor?

    Any other pointers?
    • CommentAuthorShevek
    • CommentTimeJul 9th 2012 edited
     
    And this is an alternative. Insulation above slab, which would tie in more readily what our structural engineer is proposing.
    • CommentAuthoran02ew
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2012
     
    Cant see a great deal between them, maybe a little less work in below slab insulation as less concrete to pour and only 1 pour

    Try to extend land drain down to base of wall this will reduce moisture at that depth and reduce damp in the wall.trying to retrofit dpc will be expensive and awkward, so housing your dpm into wall 1 inch will acheive nothing i would sandwich your dpm against a cleaned wall with the floor battens and seal behind with a good mastic making sure you get a good compession of batten mastic and dpm that could act as your airtightness if the internal render could be made good to battens?

    noticed you spec phenolic insulation for EWI, not sure that phenolic can be used in this way? isnt it wrapped in foil? would adhesive work on foil backing? also i hear it detearate after time so i would use it at all.
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    Not sure if comparable,
    Our solid floor is being replaced just now due to lack of ins / dpm. Walls are granite, no dpc.

    The extg screed, earlier floor and subsoil were dug out down to footings level. Walls/footings were rendered internally with cement up to about 600mm above external gnd level to create smooth surface. Tar felt burned onto render with torches. Subsoil levelled and blinded. New Dpm laid and lapped up walls against felt. Kingspan insul then new concrete slab on top. Walls to be internally lined with studs, kingspan between, plasterboard.

    Not sure any of this is wise, all as devised by builders...
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