I'm in the throws of purchasing a 1930s timber bungalow.

It looks like it has a bit of loft insulation but no insulation in the walls. The bungalow is all timber construction, weather board with plywood interior lining over timber stud frame. I was thinking about what type of insulation to use and how to get it in their? Any thoughts?

Blown in fibres for me with 100mm or more of internal sheet insulation inside that?

Well we finally completed on the timber bunglow last week and with frost on the ground outside it's chuffin cold inside.

I've shone a tourch into various voids and the wall and most of the roof are un-insulated.

The construction is 3/4 inch weather board, tarred felt, 4 inch cavity, 1/2 fiber board internal wall covering.

I'm also considering the demolition and replacement option in a few years time.

In the meantime I'm looking for some cheap and cheerful insulation.

However, having talked to one or two blown cavity wall insulation companies I may have missed the ‘free’ insulation boat by a few weeks.

Out of interest how did they get round problems like noggins when blowing in the insulation and where were the injection holes located, inside or outside?

edit - just got a call from one company to say they sill have free loft insulation available, subject to survey, so fingers crossed I might have a partly insulated home.

Just need to consider how to get the walls insulated without too much disruption. Reading elsewhere, someone suggested a noggin finder to map out the noggins in each room (or a thermal camara?) then drill holes from the inside of the room to allow insulation to be blown in. This could work as each room needs a lick of paint, so a bit of patching up would not go amiss!

Triassic, to make sure all the cavities were filled, I laboriously went round locating all the noggins, some were diagonal, and then I drilled all the holes for filling. I drilled them on the outside. Then I watched them fill them. I wasn't very popular but to be fair they were here all day and I agreed to fill the holes after they went.

Peter, So the next question is how did you locate the noggins?

Reason I ask is that looking at various reviews of stud finders and none get a good review, so which one is the best of the bunch?

I managed to track down a firm with a small amount of grant money left for FREE loft insulation and this will be installed next month.

All I need is to insulate the walls - they would not, could not, rise to the challenge of blowing in rockwool into the cavity wall.

Talking to my cousin in the America he tells me he hired a cellulose blower from Home Depot. This is what he did earlier this year when installing insulation into his timber framed house. So does anyone know where I can hire a blower?

Posted By: TriassicTalking to my cousin in the America he tells me he hired a cellulose blower from Home Depot.

There are a lot of suppliers of cellulose fibre in the US and they're happy with self installations of that type. AIUI, Warmcel is the only brand now available in the UK and they prefer blown insulation to be done by their agents which makes things awkward. There was a website for another brand but the company behind it was thought to be defunct.