The Best Insulation option for your Garden Room build?? Actis Hybris Installation Guide and Review
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Here's an installation tutorial and review on a new product we are trying out. We hope you enjoy and thanks for watching.
Thanks for this. Calmed my nerves to do this easily myself 😂
Great channel and quality workmanship. As someone who has recently built a garden room, I agree that PIR can be problematic to work with so I was interested to see this alternative product. How tight to the OSB does it stay given that we’re always told to push PIR hard against it to prevent any air condensing in that space? I would think that using it for the ceiling would be even worse due to gravity pulling it away from the OSB, did you use it there or are you sticking with PIR for ceiling?
Hi Jeremy thanks for the comment. Yes it is tight against the ceiling, you cut it about 5-10mm too big and that way it stays right up there. A vapour barrier can also be helpful for reducing moisture in the ceiling but be sure not to cut holes in it for the lights as that would defeat the point of it! You may have to use special Dow lighters in order for them to be safe to push against the vapour barrier 🙏👍
How do you install the downlights in the hybris? I've seen 200mm recesses cut into PIR and then taped on the top to keep the air tight seal. How do you achieve it with Hybris?
Great build mate
What the best supplier to purchase the insulation from please
Cheers rich
I get it from Jewsons mate, thanks for watching 👍
How has this performed in the roof so far? I am at this stage of insulating
Looks interesting, thanks for the video. Can you provide any feedback on how is the real feel inside the garden room on a hot day like nowadays in the UK when insulated by actis hybris all round ?
Works just as well as any other PIR it’s great.
cant see the link to the jig saw blade you demonstrated, did I miss it?
Bosch from Amazon
Can this be used in loft convertion?
I don't see why not as long as it meets building regs. At the start he did say the U-values are pretty much the same and you need a 90mm version of this product which is equivalent to 75mm PIR. Best advice will be to check with building regs..............
I have been using this for my loft along with the H Control. I would never use it again.
A reason as to why you wouldn’t use it would be beneficial Andrew 👍
@@creategardenrooms Sure. I will give it one point for being clean. However...
First the Hybris: The manufacturing is obviously a tricky process and hopefully they will improve it, but
1) I would estimate 75% of the panels were messed up in terms of gluing. There was either not enough glue (some of them had layers that were flapping around because of a lack of glue). Alternatively glue misalignment was preventing the cells from opening up.
2) the ends of every single panel were poorly finished making joining lengths hit and miss as to how much material there was at the joint. At least with pir, you can see if the joints are properly butting up.
3) A complaint of pir is that it is either cut right or you have a gap (or the need for some 4x2 to whack it in with). I would argue that hybris is no better. Perhaps worse. If you cut it too wide, even a little bit, the shape will distort and therefore you effectively lose the honeycomb structure. You can see it in a couple of your fitted panels. It doesn’t have to be that much wider, but it will kink. You can see what this kink will do to the open cell structure if you just take a piece of hybris and just squeeze it.
Re the H Control:
1) If you install it the way they suggest, that involves putting thousands of staples in a vapour barrier. This might not be too bad if you are then taping over these holes or fixing timber battens over.
2) Stapling doesn’t work. I used T91 staples, and they just pull through the first few layers.
3) The Actis video shows H control being affixed with battens being screwed into the structure beneath. You CANNOT use screws. It must be nailed.
4) It is as slippery as anything making it ridiculously difficult to handle.
5) Even with the actis cutter it is difficult to cut unless you are doing so on a large flat surface
Anyway. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.