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    Insulate uder floorboards, Air Brick & is this 'damp' normal?

    Hi all, One day I will post more on here with aswers rather than questions, but hope someoe has come accross this before, I have taken up the floorboards in our lounge because of woodworm and it being horrendously cold we are goig to put in PIR boards between the joists, 2 part query: In the...
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    Air Bricks

    I have a late 1920s end terrace house. I need to install some air bricks to ventilate the subfloor. The wall is solid brick wall ( not a cavity wall). I understand that there is a gap between the leaves of the solid brick wall althougth it is very small When the airbrick is fitted, should I...
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    Air bricks

    Hello I have an end terrace house circa late 1920s I wish to install two air bricks along the side elevation of the house. The house has one air brick installed along the side now · Engineering bricks used · Existing normal Bricks 235 mm wide x 75 mm high · Existing...
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    Too many airbricks?

    Hi all, We have a 1890s terraced property in the UK. It has gone through many changes over its lifetime including once being two flats. Towards the rear of our house on a side wall we have 4 large airbricks all above each other (see attached). These cause the cavity of this section of wall...
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    Need to add airbrick channel under solid concrete extension - HELP!!!

    Hi All, I have just bought an old 2 story singleskin (no cavity) mid-terraced house that has suspended wooden floors throughout. Ive been hacking away at the ungodly amount of renovations that need doing and come across one that has me stumped... A more recent extension has been built running...
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    Reducing draught from air brick

    I have a terraced house (built around 1900). My office is upstairs and has an air brick near the ceiling. I'm convinced that the office is colder than most of the other rooms in the house because of the air brick. I don't want to get rid of the air brick, but can I part-fill it with something...
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    Quick question about air bricks

    Hi -- I've looked through the archive but can't find an answer to this particular question, so I apologise if it's a repeat. I've just moved into a mid-terrace Victorian house (c.1880) and I'm fixing up the suspended wood floor in the downstairs; this includes putting celotex in between the...
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