Renovating a Gite in Brittany » vmc http://blog.brittanyholidaycottage.com Fed up with life in the UK I moved to France for a new start. I now live in Brittany, France renovating a house and running gites (holiday cottages). Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:34:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Roof insulation http://blog.brittanyholidaycottage.com/2006/03/03/roof-insulation-2/ http://blog.brittanyholidaycottage.com/2006/03/03/roof-insulation-2/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:50:47 +0000 Ian Haycox http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2006/03/03.html#a398 Continue reading →]]> A horrible job, but it's got to be done. Roof insulation.

Put 200mm of glass fibre insulation in the roof space of the new gite this week. Yuck!

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The good news is that once I finished that, I could finally connect up the last of the ducting for the VMC and install the unit in the roof space. The VMC unit is a small box with an extractor fan that sucks all the moist/smelly air from kitchens, bathrooms, toilets etc. via a series of ducting and pipework running down the walls and over the ceilings.

The unit runs 24 hours a day replacing air and keeping out damp. The unit I bought has a humidity sensor so that if the humidity increases, i.e. someone takes a steamy shower, the extraction speed increases to suck out more air. There is also a two speed override switch in the kitchen.

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