>Scavenge for old carpet and underlay
>Cut up into rectangles
>Stack into shed wall cavities
>Cover over with plastic film
>Cover with ply board
Any issues doing this in a shed?
>Scavenge for old carpet and underlay. >Cut up into rectangles. >Stack into shed wall cavities
Other than mold, etc., no.
But ... why?
To insulate my shed. Currently it has straight tin walls like this.
How much would it cost to insulate your shed with just actual insulation
It'll cost $200 to insulate that fricking tiny shed.
What is the carpet and underlay's fire rating and R value.
Still gross tho
You need some air between the carpet pieces for insulation. Also you’ll introduce molds, moisture and bacteria right inside the wall.
Maybe roll them up, rip it into shreds, boil the shreds in a big tank of water (or leave them in a bleach solution), let dry, then dump the shreds in the walls curled up (with pockets of air between them). You’ll get more volume per carpet too versus just stacking them and it’s clean.
Probably won’t be cost or labour efficient anyway
>boil old carpet
imagine the smell
>>boil old carpet
>imagine the smell
Carpet soup! Mmmmm
sitcoms are so moronic.
Married with Children is good, they make fun of fat people and women.
Boiling carpet? Brings back childhood memories. We'd have feasts.
You can't eat carpet, silly daddy
It's not carpet, it's dinner
carpet's back on the menu boys!
Ew dude ew.
After one winter the walls of that shed will be one giant shredded carpet mouse nest. Seriously just buy a couple bales of proper insulation.
Real insulation is not that expensive
Polyester insulation sounds terrible. You'd have to treat it like rotten cotton to keep rodents away. Probably cheaper to buy batts or even spray insulation.
Carpet's probably not going to be a very good insulator since it doesn't seem like it would encapsulate air very well. The underlay padding, maybe. If it were my shed I'd just put fiberglass insulation in there. It would probably cost like $150 in materials and it's something that's a known good insulation material that also isn't really effected by moisture.