Hello all, coming up on the sheetrock stage on my master bath addition and had a few questions. I have exhausted myself trying to find the answer to my somewhat unique problem. My master bath is on the second floor of my house, and the second floor outside walls consist of knee walls floor to ceiling. The stand up shower and whirlpool tub will both be on the out side walls against the knee walls. First, I have read that you NEVER use a vapor barrier behind greenboard. Do I just insulate the wall with unfaced insulation, and use insulation hangers to hold the insulation into the stud bays? I have little to no access to the back side of the knee wall. The knee wall is about 2 feet at the floor and evens out with the 8'ish ceiling on top. The idea of not using a vapor barrier to block the cold here in new england really bothers me. The 1/2" greenboard will block some of the cold, but without some sort of vapor barrier im worried that my shower will be a cold one for the winter.

Hello All, Im new to this forum so firstly let me introduce myself. My name is Greg and i am British but currently living in Hungary. I would like some advice for the following problem. We have been renovating a house for the past 2yrs and it is now ready to move into. We were planning to move into it at the beginning of March but have been told we should delay moving in until for a few months as the house is now cold (it is -10C outside at the moment) and if we were to move in and start heating straight away we would ruin the paintwork (which was done around 6months ago) and the house would become damp etc. I was thinking we could gradually turn the temperature up slowly but was told this wouldnt be good either. Any recommendations about what we should do? Thanks in advance!