Insulating Steel Beams: how best?
@MrsRA loves gardening. And that's why we chose a design which incorporated a Winter Garden inside the house. It is an unheated area on south west corner.
The Winter Garden extends from floor level to the roof and so it needs steels to hold it in place. Those steels need to be insulated. A quick look at how we could get that insulation done threw up many types of insulation, and many methods of incorporating the insulation on the steel
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I appreciate this is resolved for RA, but another option for anyone searching for similar in the future:
We have 4 Columns of the original cow-shed structure (holding up the roof) that drop into our thermal envelope, and I had to add additional goal-post bracing between each pair as I wanted to move the original racking braces to allow other areas to be opened up:
We boxed these in with ply and then used a closed-cell spray-on PU foam, (Elastospray 1629/1 fro