Peak District Cottages – Chris's Blog

From this to This

To This

Monday morning saw us start work on the last part of the Dry lining of Derwent Cottage.  As the walls are nice and ’straight’  we used the 1″ insulated foam plaster board.  We can usually get this up and finished in under three days.  This time it  was so straight forward (and we have done it so many times)  that in actual fact it took use about 1.5 days (elapse time).  Most things went to plan other than the board being delivered late.  Even the carpet didn’t need cutting back as we had left a gap under the plasterboard and the new skirting board so the carpet slipped under nicely. The only problem we encountered was how to put back the curtain tie-backs.  There was nothing to provide a sound base.  We had already thought about this for the curtain poles. By putting blocks of wood behind the plaster board, after first removing the foam backing, we had something solid to screw to.  This worked well, but we hadn’t thought about it for the tie-backs.  In the end we used a piece of wooden trim (nicely painted) to spread the load.  I would love to know if insulation actually saves us any money.  In theory it should but in practice – who knows!  What it should do is make it ‘feel’ warmer, so guests should get a benefit even if we don’t.