Good one Jeff, and its light as hell too. Jake On 8/29/06, Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@vickersdesign.com> wrote: > > I used a double layer of the silver bubble wrap insulation that Home > Desperate sells in 2 and 4 foot rolls. Its a good, cheap insulator > that won't collect water and also reflects radiant heat as well. I > used 3M adhesive spray (the version with a nozzle that shoots a > stream vs. a spray) to stick the stuff down---it doesn't take much. > Prior to putting that down I used Foilastic roofing stuff on a 9" > roll on the metal walls as a sound deadener. 1/4 the price of FatMat > and works really well. I found that using flexible smaller sized > pieces of both the deadener and the insulation worked best when > trying to get into some of the harder to reach areas of the doors, etc. > > Jeff > On Aug 29, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:23:57 -0700 > > From: Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM> > > Subject: thermal insulation > > > > Hi List, > > > > I just ordered fatmat (following the brent weide trend) for my sound > > insulation. However, if I have the panels off, I would like to use the > > chance to add some decent thermal insulation on top as well. I > > think the > > optimum would be something like 1/2 inch closed cell polyethylene > > foam, like > > www.reimo.de sells it for that purpose, but cannot find anything > > like that > > from an american supplier. any ideas? i dont want to use fibreglass > > as it > > holds water and dont want to use the blue roof sheedt insulation > > stuff from > > dow chemicals as it is rigid....... > > > > flo >
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