Holleradhiho
2017-08-03 18:49:00
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That should be about right. The screed is denser than concrete. It does not primarily "insulate," that's not its job, it is not designed for that. It doesn’t make that much of a difference. It certainly couldn't fix the fact that insulation was installed in the wrong place here – better than nothing, but the ceiling would have been more appropriate. The screed "changes" this by such a microscopically small amount that it won't justify the difference. The mistake was made elsewhere and cannot be corrected by this (even mitigating it would be so minimal as to be pointless).
Why do you think this construction method is a mistake??
Isn't it more sensible to insulate the building envelope instead of an intermediate floor and thereby let the enclosed space get cold?
The floor between the ground floor and the upper floor is also not insulated, but the entire building envelope (walls & roof of the house) is.
The concrete slab is of course 20 cm thick, sorry for the mistake.
My idea was: Instead of insulating the top floor ceiling (in the attic) and then retrofitting the roof slopes, the roof slope is professionally insulated right away and that’s that.
I hoped to save on insulation that way.