laul.laulsen
2023-01-16 16:03:31
- #1
Hello, I am looking for some advice for my construction project, a well-insulated room with adequate moisture protection (it will be an aquarium room). I already have rough ideas and calculations, but I lack the practical experience to say whether it will work.
My idea is as follows: I want to insulate the room from the inside with EPS boards (preferably 6-10cm thick). External insulation is unfortunately not possible because the room is completely underground and I do not want to go through the trouble of digging everything up. With this measure, I would then achieve a U-value sufficient for me (around 0.4-0.5 for the whole room). The problem is that the room will probably not have very low humidity (I am not entirely sure yet, but I could imagine it being easily 60+%). And as is often the case with internal insulation, I will very likely have a very damp interior wall surface. To prevent this, I have been thinking a lot about how to solve this. A foil as a vapor barrier sounds good, but I will need to screw things into the wall, which will probably make maintaining adhesion and tightness difficult. OSB boards as a vapor retardant is currently my favorite option, because I could screw things to it and still have a retarding effect. However, there would still be moisture between the insulation and the wall. This is my current status, and I am stuck.
I hope this whole explanation is not too confusing and that someone might be able to give me a tip on how best to approach the problem.
Best regards, Paul
My idea is as follows: I want to insulate the room from the inside with EPS boards (preferably 6-10cm thick). External insulation is unfortunately not possible because the room is completely underground and I do not want to go through the trouble of digging everything up. With this measure, I would then achieve a U-value sufficient for me (around 0.4-0.5 for the whole room). The problem is that the room will probably not have very low humidity (I am not entirely sure yet, but I could imagine it being easily 60+%). And as is often the case with internal insulation, I will very likely have a very damp interior wall surface. To prevent this, I have been thinking a lot about how to solve this. A foil as a vapor barrier sounds good, but I will need to screw things into the wall, which will probably make maintaining adhesion and tightness difficult. OSB boards as a vapor retardant is currently my favorite option, because I could screw things to it and still have a retarding effect. However, there would still be moisture between the insulation and the wall. This is my current status, and I am stuck.
I hope this whole explanation is not too confusing and that someone might be able to give me a tip on how best to approach the problem.
Best regards, Paul