Truk
2009-06-08 14:12:31
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Vapor barrier basement
I am renovating a single-family house built in 1976. The basement (only about 1/4 underground) is made of 20 cm concrete, the ground floor is a timber frame construction.
The finished rooms in the basement have 6 cm mineral wool inside (very loose, so that the air could circulate perfectly) + 8 cm gypsum wall + textured paint and no vapor barrier.
Accordingly, the mineral wool also looks like that!
Now I have glued 15 cm walkable mineral wool directly onto the concrete with PU foam, then – also with PU foam – a 1.5 cm OSB board.
(The new sand-lime brick windows have a Uw of 0.7). Everything was pressed during installation, so there is no air anywhere, OSB board joints are glued. The interior wall made of sand-lime brick adjacent to the concrete was routed out 15 cm along the concrete and filled with mineral wool. This way I have no thermal bridges anywhere.
The Sd-values are therefore from outside to inside 16 / 0.15 / 3.4.
To avoid moisture problems, I may now have to provide an additional vapor barrier on the inside. Now I am not sure which Sd-value would be optimal inside, so that both winter and summer are optimally resolved. Question: Can someone assess whether the above construction can do without an additional vapor barrier?
(I want to apply a synthetic plaster on the OSB board).
I am renovating a single-family house built in 1976. The basement (only about 1/4 underground) is made of 20 cm concrete, the ground floor is a timber frame construction.
The finished rooms in the basement have 6 cm mineral wool inside (very loose, so that the air could circulate perfectly) + 8 cm gypsum wall + textured paint and no vapor barrier.
Accordingly, the mineral wool also looks like that!
Now I have glued 15 cm walkable mineral wool directly onto the concrete with PU foam, then – also with PU foam – a 1.5 cm OSB board.
(The new sand-lime brick windows have a Uw of 0.7). Everything was pressed during installation, so there is no air anywhere, OSB board joints are glued. The interior wall made of sand-lime brick adjacent to the concrete was routed out 15 cm along the concrete and filled with mineral wool. This way I have no thermal bridges anywhere.
The Sd-values are therefore from outside to inside 16 / 0.15 / 3.4.
To avoid moisture problems, I may now have to provide an additional vapor barrier on the inside. Now I am not sure which Sd-value would be optimal inside, so that both winter and summer are optimally resolved. Question: Can someone assess whether the above construction can do without an additional vapor barrier?
(I want to apply a synthetic plaster on the OSB board).