How to insulate a summerhouse or shed | Using your summerhouse in the winter
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2021
- In this video I’ll take you through the processes I used to make a summer house usable in the winter. How to the inside of your shed warm and cosy and give it a log cabin feel too!
This is a great weekend project, that really make use of a unloved space during the winter months.
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I’m literally just finishing my new build and I was thinking of insulating. Very helpful thanks man 👍
Didn't even know I wanted to do that until I saw this...another thing to add to the growing list! Going to be a busy spring! Thanks so much 📐✏🔨
My pleasure, enjoy some peace in a warm cosy spot!
Just in time, I'm working on exactly this for my "garden shed" turned workshop.
Perfect!
Beautiful 🙂
Thank you!
We'd like to insulate the children's play house for winter use too. Great ideas here.
Do you not need to put a layer of damp proof membrane around the inside first ?
Isn't the insulation going to soak up the moisture on the exterior wood and become soggy over time?
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Priced this job up and it was more than the summerhouse!!
Wood has got ridiculously expensive hasn’t it!
Realise you posted a year ago, but for others like me just finding it and wondering the same, if you are on a budget you could do similar with pallet wood or used scaffold boards. Wouldn't have the same effect and would require a fair bit of prep or post fitment sanding but you can get 2.4meter scaffold boards used for about 6 quid.
This is beautiful.
Thanks
That looks top notch man, great job 👍
Thanks bud!
thats like the perfect farden haha nothing crooked at all :-s .. wish i could do that to my garden .. but i`m to lazy i guess haha
Being the UK with bad weather 90% of the time is it not necessary to have a vapour barrier or breathable membrane on the inside?
Where is the damproofing layer
Project for the summer thanks to your vid! Not paying £9k for something I can do myself for a mere fraction!!!
Glad I could help!
I would love to do something like this for my guinea pigs.
What a life!
This was exactly the video I was looking for, thank you! Question on your windows there - are they glazed / glass or are they the plastic I'm seeing a lot of? I have a corner of our garden I'm going to put a summer house down in and I'll want it to be useful for more than a few months in the year, so this idea of insulating all round is perfect!
They were actually glass on this one. 👍
It's a Shire Summerhouse and comes in different sizes as well as a shed. I have a Shire Summerhouse, shed and log store and they are great. Good Video!
Great information, thank you 👍
Hi, smashing video. Not sure if I will be able to do this by myself but am going to give it a go. Quick question. Did you insulate the roof and floor?
Yes I insulated the roof but not the floor 👍
Great vid mate, QQ, where can I find the wooden planks you used on the side walls?
I just used a local hardware store
We're in the process of putting up the same summerhouse and my wife likes the window ledge idea. Was wondering if you're still able to open that window though?
Absolutely, as the window opens outwards 👍
I love this. If it was a little bigger it could be a tiny house. I'd love to live in it. Thank you for showing all the hacks to get a perfect finish. Do you put any kind of finish on the tongue and groove to help preserve it and keep it clean?
A coat of danish oil just help it stay the same colour and not fade. 👍
I’ll be damned, I’d have never ever though to cut the insulation like that! Brilliant, thanks for the tip.
I’ve got that exact shed coming but as a shed not a summer home. But I’ll be using it for storage but will be boarding and insulating inside with a socket and light etc
Might upgrade the roof abit and make sure I treat the under side a few times before building it on recycled beams
Great job and very informative…
What’s your view in fitting a vapour barrier, like a lot of shed installations recommend ?
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Good idea if you have the space. I haven’t noticed anything bad happening on this one though.
I insulated a large workroom shed with 1" thick polystyrene sheets cut to slot inbetween the batens and plywood sheets ontop it belonged to my sister.
20 years later she sold the shed when it was taken apart to move the polystyrene was in excellent condition no evidence of damp or mould behind the plywood or the shed walls.
Would it make any difference in how much heat it will contain when using the loft insulation vs a proper wall / cavity insulation ? Of that should not make a difference ?
Different types of insulation might affect it a little. I think loft insulation will generally just be thicker 🤷♂️
Hi, do i need a gap for ventilation between backside of insulation and wall of shed/summerhouse?
Common theory is, yes you should. I didn’t here and haven’t found there to be any issue.
would a 35mm air gap be as effective as the insulation ..so you could omit insulation???
I wouldn’t, especially with a thin wooden outside edge. It would loose heat through the wood very quickly.
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I did this once on a summer house and suffered with damp problems and ended up ripping it all down and putting a foil type insulation. Did you get and problems with damp?
No, not yet. But I’ll keep an eye on it thanks. Even adding the extra seal to the windows the door still ventilates when shut! Maybe that will be enough.
Looking to buy and do this to a larger log cabin for winter use .. but do I insulate the roof ? And floor also
I did the roof but not the floor
@@KingBespokeCreations and will I get condensation problems if I insulated?
@@jamesmccormack5145 possibly, if the building is then sealed. I didn’t have room on this small unit, but if you can have an air gap between original wall and new it will stop condensation on the inside of the walls too.
Great video, I have a summer house ready to insulate like this. What length nails / screws would you recommend to use to attach the blanks of wood together?
I used 25mm pins to attach the tongue and groove
I thought one is not suppose to touch nor breath insulation. I thought if you breath it in it can kill you in the long run. What kind of insulation is this? Just wondering 💭
It’s generally made from fibreglass, and you’re quite right you don’t want to be breathing this in. All the warnings are enclosed spaces (lofts etc) whereas I’m in the open with fresh air. Please wear masks wherever you feel you need to 👍
No vapour membrane and internal moisture membrane? So in winter if you heated it, condensation will pass the inner log lap and wet the insulation and often damp will get in from the outside and get into the insulation without a breathable wrap under the outer cladding. This is what my research has found
Exactly what I thought too. The minimum is the have a damp proof layer on wrapped inside first then insulation then the shiplap
@danielhooker4957 would you attach the membrane in between the outside wall and the insulation?
Expensive job now, Price of timber has skyrocketed
Hasn’t everything!
@@KingBespokeCreations Indeed, I work in a Merchant's have done for 23 years and it's mental at the moment
Hi mate. Lovely work. do you provide this service? I'm about to purchase a summer house and would love it to be insulated
No, sorry. This was done for a friend of mine. Thought it might benefit others to do a video 👍
I read there is no use insulating unless you going to heat it.
This will take the chill out.
I'm going to be insulating my summer house to use as an office. Should there not be an air gap between the insulation and outer wall to prevent damp?
There really isn’t room. There’s a phrase with houses “ insulate insulate insulate ventilate ventilate ventilate.” Meaning have good insulation but also air flow. Damp would come from breathing inside not rain outside.
Yes, there should. The wood has no room to "breathe" if you don't. This insulation will be wet through by now, and no doubt, mould is already noticeable. 25mm air gap minimum. Then insulation. Then a vapour barrier.
@@3DomSculpts should the vapour barrier and insulation be attached on the outer or inner wall? I'm planning to make a brick summerhouse with thermalite bricks on the inside.
@@ilovedogs938 on most cases (depending onbyour inital construction) insulaton will be installed internally between the uprights, but with an air gap between chosen insulation and the outside wall/panel, taping edges/joins with alu tape.Then the vapour barrier is installed over the top.
@@3DomSculpts So in my case i'd be using brick, would I still need the edging tape? So it's the internal thermalite bricks, then the vapour barrier, then the insulation material, then air space of 25mm min, then the outer concrete brick wall?
Where did you get the summer house from?
The client bought it from an internet search. Sorry I don’t know more than that
What's the best - i.e. safest and most cost effective - way to heat a summer house in winter?
What radius is the “logs”? Fretboards? 😂🤷♂️🤪
Maybe not using this super soft pine! 😂
Do u not need a membrane
No not really. Moisture from the outside shouldn’t pass the treated timber on the outside of the summerhouse. Condensation on the inside wouldn’t change with a membrane
ive been saving polystyrene to insulate mine no good ?
Standard polystyrene, whilst it will insulate, won't give you the same thermal properties as other types such as higher density EPS foam or Kingspan (Kingspan being the better of the two, but more costly).
you measured and cut the roll of insulation to fit but yet as you installed it there were 4 inch gaps ??? while at it why are you using rock wall mice love to nest in that spend a little more use king span with foil backing and more insulation easier install no bugs and rodents moving in
Oh god no.... That thing will be holding some water. Bet its started rotting already.
Nope
I’m literally just finishing my new build and I was thinking of insulating. Very helpful thanks man 👍