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Two trades in one room. Flexible hemp-jute batts went between the ceiling joists, then timber lath was nailed to the rafters by hand, overlapped the old way, and finished with a heritage lime scratch coat and finishing coat.
In the roof, Pavatex waxed wood fibre boards went between the rafters and flexible batts behind the exposed beams, with boards fixed underneath. Every piece was cut around the timber so the curving beams stay visible, which is slower than boarding over them and the reason the room still looks like itself.
Installing flexible hemp jute batts between ceiling rafters
Lath overlaps on ceiling, hemp-jute insulation in ceiling between joists
Nailing timber lath to ceiling rafters
Lath on, electrical cables out
Timber lath nailed to ceiling rafters
Heritage lime plaster applied to lath ceiling
Lime scratch coat on lath
Lime plaster finishing coat on lath
Lime finishing on ceiling
Pavatex waxed wood fibre boards fitted internally between roof rafters
Flexible pavatex insulation to roof between rafters
Pavatex flex insulation goes behind exposed beams
Pavatex flexible wood fibre insulation to roof between rafter
Pavatex boards and the exposed beams
Pavatex insulation boards below rafters and exposed beams
Pavatex wood fibre insulation and the curving exposed beams
Wood fibre boards being installed underneath rafters
Insulation cut neatly around exposed timber structure
Heritage lime plaster applied
In a listed building the insulation has to work around what is already there, not instead of it.
