Help me - I have become obsessed with insulation

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I want to insulate a small flat that I am renovating. I don't want to use anything too bulky and have heard about insulated plasterboard which can be fixed directly to walls. Does this cause any damp issues in solid-wall properties? If there is a chimney breast on an outer wall do I need to insulate that as well or does the face that it is, effectively, two walls mean I can leave it alone (this plasterboard, if I buy it, is really expensive).

This happened to DH last winter. He did get through it, and so will you. ((hugs))

On the positive side, our house is warmer now and less expensive to heat.

Thank you both for your replies (and your support at this difficult time - I thought I could handle it but now I find I'm just always on the loom out for better u-values). Can I ask thone of you who have been there - other seen a loved one go down this route - whether there was a problem with the plasterboard sitting proud of existing window and door frames?

Thank you both for your replies (and your support at this difficult time - I thought I could handle it but now I find I'm just always on the loom out for better u-values). Can I ask thone of you who have been there - other seen a loved one go down this route - whether there was a problem with the plasterboard sitting proud of existing window and door frames?

I'm afraid I can't answer that. Luckily he stuck with insulating the floor of the loft and then filling in every tiny hole or gap in the rest of the house with foam strips or squirty foam that hardened or strips with bristles on one edge.

You could marry my DH - he is obsessed with insulation. Until we had a DC he mentioned insulation at least once per day for the last 11 years. I guess he was too tired after that. Although he did put sound insulation in the car today to reduce road noise and talked about it for the rest of the bloody day as if it was something really useful

You are so lucky huffpuff . Does he know anything about insulated plasterboard? How efficient is it? Are there any problems with it leading to, I don't know, damp or condensation?