Insulation between ground and 1st floor?

chrisfreelander54

Hello everyone and good morning.

This is my 1st time posting on these board, as you can see from the thread title I am looking for some advice as regards to internal insulation. We are in the process of renovating our home (we have been for the last 10 years :rotfl:) and looking at replacing all floor boards on the 1st floor as they are all uneven and squeak when you would on them, which is a pain as work nights.

So while replacing the floorboards I was also thinking of insulating in tween the ground floor ceiling and 1st floor, floor boards with loft insulation, is this possible and is there any Building regs that need to be complied with in regards to this?

The reason for doing this is that it would stop the heat from downstairs travelling up to the bedrooms, in the hope that the thermostat would then work more efficiently as we have a large living room with one radiator at present, (will be installing another one soon), as well as reducing noise from downstairs, when on nights.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Chris.

anotherbaldrick

Doubt if expenditure would be worth bit. Heat transfer from ground floor to above is useful heat not wasted . better to concentrate on the new rad and draught proofing downstairs . You will always get transfer of cold air from upstairs anyway as warmer air will rise up the stairwell and cooler air from there will roll down the stairs to replace it.
Noise is another issue

keystone

chrisfreelander54 wrote: »

The reason for doing this is that it would stop the heat from downstairs travelling up to the bedrooms, in the hope that the thermostat would then work more efficiently as we have a large living room with one radiator at present, (will be installing another one soon), as well as reducing noise from downstairs, when on nights.

What do you propose to do about the bloody great big hole that enables you to transit between the floors via the stairs and which is the route that probably 90%+ of heat transfer between floors takes? Suggest logic function reset TBH.

Cheers

Edit: Oh - Balders beat me to it but is more diplomatic than I.