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No insulation behind knee wall on one side of dormer?

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  • 17-06-2009 3:24pm
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    crazyirishchick
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    Hi all, I've recently moved into a dormer bungalow, upstairs on the back side of the house there is a small knee wall hatch in the hotpress allowing access to the whole side dormer attic space (no dormer windows on this side). Here all the pipes are accessible the lenght of the house.

    Today I realised that there was no access hatches to the other dormer side attic at the front of the house (side with 3 dormer windows in). I thought this odd as I'd assume that you should have access on this side too. As I need to run some satellite cabling to our TV room I set about creating a new hatch on this side of the house, easy job and door now installed creating an access hatch.

    What I cannot figure out is that when I get into this newly accessible side attic I notice that there is no insulation on the knee walls, just silver backing on plasterboard! Yet on the other side of the house there is fibre glass running the lenght of the knee walls.

    Is this normal? Should both side attics have knee wall insulation on them?


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    paul127
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    no it is not normal both sides should have insulation


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