Advice on an interior ceiling - unusual request!

Don' bother with paneling at all. FIrst lay a watertight later of plastic (e.g. DPC material) to prevent condensation rising up there and then lay half sheets of Kingspan which should just fit through the hole. Seal together with tape and the insulation improvement should be immediately noticable in this weather.

Mr Pythagoras will let you get away with ~114cm strips

No he won't, there a joist in the garage roof in the way :-(

So trade Mr Euclid for Mr Klein! Just immerse the joist in the 4th dimension and your sheeting is simultaneously inside the hatch and still in the garage ;-)

I'll get me coat ...

"John Burns" wrote | > Mr Pythagoras will let you get away with ~114cm strips | No he won't, there a joist in the garage roof in the way :-(

Dissolve the joist with caustic soda.

Or just throw in a couple of canoe-loads of spray foam and retire.

Owain

Tongue and groove used as a ceiling?

I'm not an expert on regs, but this sounds to me like a potential fire hazard - it would burn very easily with air on both sides.

Correctly such cladding would have a conventional plaster ceiling behind it which would address the draught probem, too.

All IMHO.

Unfortunately all the rage some years ago.

Yep - and all the stuff I had to rip down to put in insulation burnt very well in the wood burning stove. Seemed to be a particularly well burning wood :-) (or perhaps :-( for those with such ceilings.)

And a long time ago as well - my small fourth bedroom in my Victorian semi had one, and it looked original. Much thicker T&G than the stuff you see today, though, for cladding purposes.

Ohers have covered the basics, but...if its a pianted sealing, go round every single tongue and groove with decorators caulk, and re-paint it.

Not sure what would match natural wood tho.

I LIKE this sort of ceiling by the way.

So do I. Don't think my fiance does alas. Too bad ;-)

It certainly suits older houses. I've got one in the kitchen end of my breakfast room. But over plasterboard, so no draughts.