Major Pleasures (3 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

I hear people talking about over-insulation these days, houses that are so insulated that moisture can't escape and it's leading to all sorts of new damp problems. Fun times ahead!

you need to keep the airvents open. simples

 

[Lili Marlene]

you need to keep the airvents open. simples

Look at this guy with his airvents, fancy!

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I find that to be both true and amazing.

Why no insulation before? Was it in other countries?

we've come from a very low base in terms of housing stock in ireland (materials

70-80 years ago a significant portion of the population lived in tenements, or really rough rural houses.

even a poured concrete 2 up 2 down council house was a big step up.

More recently its also been cheaper to build without things like cavity walls and insulation - both in terms of DIY builders in the country, and developers in towns.

 

[GO]

you need to keep the airvents open. simples

And don't be drying your jocks on the rads

 

[JohnnyRaz]

And don't be drying your jocks on the rads

words to live by...

 

[sleepy]

And don't be drying your jocks on the rads

Also wash them before drying

 

[chris d]

Next door, across the back wall, have gotten a collie pup. It's so cute.

 

[ann post]

you need to keep the airvents open. simples

Ann posts weekly
Buy a dehumidifier
Post.

Seriously though, do.
Use the water for the plants then.

 

[seanc]

yep - having lived in multiple cold shitholes over the years I can relate.

Ireland as a whole pretty much only discovered the concept of insulation sometime in the late 90s

I put it down to work ethic and catholic guilt, if you're cold, you deserve to be cold!

The damp pervasive coldness of Ireland is shocking though, you don't realise how awful it is until you go somewhere else.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I put it down to work ethic and catholic guilt, if you're cold, you deserve to be cold!

The damp pervasive coldness of Ireland is shocking though, you don't realise how awful it is until you go somewhere else.

don't forget the brits.
800 years of stealing our styrofoam left our colonialized minds unable to consider ourselves worthy of warmth

 

[seanc]

Shur who'd be forgetting the brits? Integral, they are.

 

[Cormcolash]

That's a good point.

Waterford, West Cork, here on the Dingle Peninsula, they're all a strange mix of rich west-brits, rich actual brits, hippies of all sorts and lots of still fairly poor Irish farming families.

Tell you one thing that unites them all – BOGGERS

 

[Cormcolash]

Look at this guy with his airvents, fancy!

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[JohnnyRaz]

Ann posts weekly
Buy a dehumidifier
Post.

Seriously though, do.
Use the water for the plants then.

my only regular encounter with a dehumidifier was the one in fred lane (rehersal studio/damp basement entrance to hell). god knows what that condensate contained.
I remember one summer it stopped working, and mould started growing on me fretboard..

 

[therealjohnny]

We need a "home insulation" thread

fucks sake

 

[Lili Marlene]

We need a "home insulation" thread

fucks sake

Merely organize the world in such a way that you don't. Simples.

 

[ann post]

my only regular encounter with a dehumidifier was the one in fred lane (rehersal studio/damp basement entrance to hell). god knows what that condensate contained.
I remember one summer it stopped working, and mould started growing on me fretboard..

I got that in the shed here where I'm the only person that goes in there. Damp finds a way.

 

[therealjohnny]

Dehumidifiers are great for getting the smell of food, coffee and fags etc out of the place too

 

[Lili Marlene]

When you get into an album so much that you've been going through phases of listening to different songs off it on repeat for months.

 

[the_jen]

We need a "home insulation" thread

fucks sake

I have important information to contribute here! I insulated the full depth of my floor joists and got dry rot. Had to take it all out, replace parts of the joists.. big work. The wood needs exposed surface area to breathe so you should only ever insulate two-thirds of the depth. If you have 150mm joists you should only have 100mm insulation.