Hi,
We've just started building our house in Cork - horray!. When we initially went to our builder to talk about insulation, among his recommentations were 60mls of Kingspan on insulation on the ground floor. Now the builder has come back to us as is saying that a few of his other customers are putting in 100mls on the ground floor. I've just got off the phone with Kingspan who didn't prove that helpful - all they said was that the U-Value is improved up to 30%. For an extra cost of around €1000, is this increase in insulation worth it? Bear in mind, we are being generous with the insultion already around the house as well as planning to install good u-value windows. I guess we are a little fearful that we are going to hear about all these other things that would be better, resulting in our house budget going way over. Don't get me wrong, we're not scrimping, we have done a lot of work on insulation and other areas and will put the money into the right places, but we don't want to be taken for a ride either. All comments helpful Thanks.
We've just started building our house in Cork - horray!. When we initially went to our builder to talk about insulation, among his recommentations were 60mls of Kingspan on insulation on the ground floor. Now the builder has come back to us as is saying that a few of his other customers are putting in 100mls on the ground floor. I've just got off the phone with Kingspan who didn't prove that helpful - all they said was that the U-Value is improved up to 30%. For an extra cost of around €1000, is this increase in insulation worth it? Bear in mind, we are being generous with the insultion already around the house as well as planning to install good u-value windows. I guess we are a little fearful that we are going to hear about all these other things that would be better, resulting in our house budget going way over. Don't get me wrong, we're not scrimping, we have done a lot of work on insulation and other areas and will put the money into the right places, but we don't want to be taken for a ride either. All comments helpful Thanks.