After some time away from making videos to spend more time with the family and also because my main camera failed me entirely, I’ve slowly eased back into things, coming up with a plan of attack for the shed linings and insulation. I was leaning towards doing it in a way that allow me to get away with not painting anything but it seems I will have to don the old painting overalls after all.
Foilboard insulation ready to be shoved into the ceiling.
I heard about sheets for caravans that were pre-finished that I thought might be suitable but they were crazy expensive and I still would need to buy insulation. So we’ve come up with a mix of solid styrene insulation boards for the ceiling which will fit between the roof battens then we’ll cover the battens by screwing some 116mm mouldings to them. The whole lot will the be painted with ceiling white. I’m sure that’s not the best way to do it but for the ceiling we have to work with it seems like a reasonable solution for a shed ceiling.
For the walls, I’ve found a polymer insulation batt that will fit between the studs and we’ll line over them with some 9mm ply on the back wall and 7mm ply for the remaining walls, except for the North wall which I’ll line with the original pine boards that we took out from inside the house during the first round of renovations. I’ll build a stud wall to partition off the single garage from the double with a pine stud wall frame and 7mm ply linings with no insulation.
We’ve had no luck locking down an electrician so all that will have to be done later using conduits over the walls and ceiling which is ok by me. I’m thinking of painting them a metallic grey to make them a feature rather than trying to hide them with wall paint as would usually be done. Speaking of paint, I’m thinking of painting the back wall black to blend in the black shelving I have planned in front of it while the other walls will just be painted white.
Let me know what you think! The video of the whole process will be on YouTube eventually, and I’m working on something special that will be part of another video
Gallery - Update: Shed Insulation In Progress
If you need more shed related content, check out the video below where I lay down an epoxy coating on the concrete floor! The lining and insulation video will be up as soon as it’s done and there’ll be more to follow as I’m working on setting out all the workbenches and tools virtually to hopefully find the optimal layout for the shed before forking over any cash!
