Best way to insulate my top floor ceiling in old ventilated attic with open eaves?
Hi,
I recently had a carpenter here to help me with insulating my top floor in my old half-timbered house located in northern germany. Unfortunately he was not really a big help and couldnt help me with the details. so im hoping that maybe i can get some help or inspiration here.
My plan is to only insulate the top floor not the eaves, partly because i wanna keep the air flowing but also bc money is tight. How i would do it right now is to basically surround the edges of the floor with wooden soft-fiberboards and then fill up the rest with "isofloc". I was thinking about using a hemp lime mix as insulation bc we live next to a forest and im afraid animals are going to make themself a home. The carpenter told me though that as there is no sign of animals for now i dont really have to worry about them becoming a issue later as the attic probably didnt get cleaned the last 100 years, so its not likely they suddenly appear. The attic is mostly a open space with a small area seperated as you can see in the second picture. To keep it simple im probably just gonna tear that down to get one big singular space.
The biggest question im asking myself right now is, if i wanna top the insulation with a floor to 1. keep the attic usable (which we didnt use for the first two years we are here now, although there was a lot to do and that might change) and 2. to prevent the insulation from being partially blown away and 3. upping my chances that no animals like it to much.