Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation Re: Costs to upgrade ceiling and wall insulation: Building a 2Oct 09, 2014 10:54 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Costs to upgrade ceiling and wall insulation 17Mar 27, 2015 10:59 am I concur, People spend ridiculous amounts on benchtops, taps and other non critical things, yet bulk at insulation upgrade costs, seems illogical to me, we upgraded our ceiling insulation to R6 for approx. $900 and had sound proof R2 batts put in the internal walls for a bit more, seems like money well spent for mine! Re: Costs to upgrade ceiling and wall insulation 18Mar 27, 2015 8:12 pm steevo I concur, People spend ridiculous amounts on benchtops, taps and other non critical things, yet bulk at insulation upgrade costs, seems illogical to me, we upgraded our ceiling insulation to R6 for approx. $900 and had sound proof R2 batts put in the internal walls for a bit more, seems like money well spent for mine! I'm doing that too. R2 insulation between all beds, laundry, ensuite and living wall. For the sake I a few hundred bucks it's worth it. Re: Costs to upgrade ceiling and wall insulation 19Mar 30, 2015 9:11 pm Thanks for the replies, is it worth doing all walls or just external walls? Just to clarify, To work it out is it just for example the wall is 20m long with ceiling height of 2.55m just 20x2.55. Just doesn't seem like very much as I've work out my external walls plus lined the inside of garage so as to be separate from living is only approx 113m2 Re: Costs to upgrade ceiling and wall insulation 20Apr 03, 2015 3:36 pm Ok so you convinced me to do the insulation went and bought a few rolls of r2.0 wall Insulation and fitted it today to the external walls. Will do the internal walls a bit later of the long weekend. I hope it helps, lol. Will it be worth doing internal walls, I'll only he doing it mainly for noise levels between laundry and rooms etc Found the answer. The recommended distance is .... 1 5975 Hi all, Just wondering if anyone had suggestions on installing/replacing wall insulation on an external wall which doesn't have wrap, our miners cottage being constructed… 0 4942 1 19722 |