WARNING: COMPULSORY READING
We’ve been in the business of making recommendations on how to insulate double brick (aka solid masonry) walls for over 14 years now and there have always been fears, risks and dangers associated with insulating these load bearing walls. Frankly, the concerns are enough to keep a building scientist up at night.
Our interest in double brick homes comes form the fact that we both live in 100 year old homes in Toronto and we always tried to keep up with the bits and pieces being published in Europe and North America.
In fact, I took it upon myself to start writing a mini thesis on the subject to give the layman some direction with enough meaty bits to keep the contractors and architects interested. .. until I discovered the mother of all technical documents! I can’t believe it’s FREE plus it’s written by a bunch of Canucks to boot! Its called:
Measure Guideline: Internal Insulation of Masonry Walls, J.F. Straube, K. Ueno, and C.J. Schumacher, Building Science CorporationSo if you or your loved one lives in a leaky, uninsulated double brick house, give the paper a read over! If you’re a contractor, insulator, architect you have to read this before you do another project!
Alas, I’ve been beat to the punch and my mini thesis has been shelved next to War and Peace.