Bought a house with a basement from '76 about 1 year ago.
Have re-drained and used Platon Extra + their drainage boards of styrofoam (insulate about 20 cm thick) outside the Platon.
Now I'm on the inside and keep getting different answers.
The basement looked like this before I started tearing it down, drywall-plastic-insulation against concrete blocks-vertical wooden studs with 2-3 cm gap against concrete, wooden floor joists that absorbed some moisture hence a slight smell.
Now I have removed drywall-plastic-insulation, taken away the wooden floor joist and replaced it with metal.
As far as I can see, the vertical wooden studs have not been affected by moisture so I plan to keep them. (used a moisture meter)
The concrete wall has been treated with Japes Mögelfri and it removed the smell that was left in the concrete.
Can I do as I have done? Keep everything except the floor joist which I replaced with metal.
Put 45 insulation between the studs instead of the 70 that was there before, create a barrier between the studs with chicken wire strips so the insulation doesn't touch the concrete wall (air gap) and then put the drywall back (no plastic).
I know it's recommended to use metal studs but I was thinking it's not necessary since they have lasted since '76 and everything outside is new, plus I save some money
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Have re-drained and used Platon Extra + their drainage boards of styrofoam (insulate about 20 cm thick) outside the Platon.
Now I'm on the inside and keep getting different answers.
The basement looked like this before I started tearing it down, drywall-plastic-insulation against concrete blocks-vertical wooden studs with 2-3 cm gap against concrete, wooden floor joists that absorbed some moisture hence a slight smell.
Now I have removed drywall-plastic-insulation, taken away the wooden floor joist and replaced it with metal.
As far as I can see, the vertical wooden studs have not been affected by moisture so I plan to keep them. (used a moisture meter)
The concrete wall has been treated with Japes Mögelfri and it removed the smell that was left in the concrete.
Can I do as I have done? Keep everything except the floor joist which I replaced with metal.
Put 45 insulation between the studs instead of the 70 that was there before, create a barrier between the studs with chicken wire strips so the insulation doesn't touch the concrete wall (air gap) and then put the drywall back (no plastic).
I know it's recommended to use metal studs but I was thinking it's not necessary since they have lasted since '76 and everything outside is new, plus I save some money
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With your thoughts on saving/reusing materials, I would have placed a metal profile against the floor, and then you can set your wooden studs and also the top plate against the ceiling in wood, but I would not have put in any insulation. You already have 200mm of cellplast on the outside.
Yes, you can do that,
I'm going to do part of my basement walls, but I'll throw on some plaster and smooth it out to a semi-even surface, then draw fake stones of various shapes and then silicate paint...
can you or someone explain why you've put platon and then the insulation on the outside... don't you get a cooling air gap between the wall and the insulation???
I'm going to do part of my basement walls, but I'll throw on some plaster and smooth it out to a semi-even surface, then draw fake stones of various shapes and then silicate paint...
can you or someone explain why you've put platon and then the insulation on the outside... don't you get a cooling air gap between the wall and the insulation???