air bricks

All, I have an old detached red brick house that has suspended flooring and there's water related issues in the middle section either side of the front door. Outside: concreted upto the front door and either side landscaped. There are low air bricks. Guttering is not leaking and running...

I moved into a victorian house and the previous owner had covered the air brick in the living room (under suspended floor), so the room would get a bit smelly. I have since unblocked this so the room is now less smelly, but not completely fresh. I have added an additional air brick but neither...

Hi all, we’ve got an old house with suspended flooring that has airbricks throughout. Problem is the bricks are quite close to the ground (only 1 brick above in some cases) and we’re getting quite a bit of splash back into the airbricks when it rains, so I was thinking of installing some vent...

I'm living in a house with a cellar which currently doesn't have any air bricks. I want to install some but I have no idea where the cellar wall meets the outside world. Using a masonry drill, I started drilling a hole about two bricks down from the ceiling of my cellar and have got about 30cm...

Hi all, New to this site but have a question .... We had our separate toilet and bathroom which have been knocked into one and therefore have two airbricks and two windows (with openings), I'm looking at installing an extractor fan Option a) is to replace one of the air bricks with an...

Hi all, expertise needed! In the hunt for causes of heat loss, I've just discovered something odd. Our 2007 brick-cavity house has two 9x9" exterior air bricks which have square, terracotta ducting going through both wall 'skins' and butt up roughly to the INTERIOR plasterboard wall. Inside...

Hi All, Looking for some advice please on this probate property to be purchased. It's going for £225k in West Midlands as a 1950s three-bedroom end of terrace with a ground floor extension, with a flat roof, split into two rooms (sitting room and utility room). The property generally needs...

I've recently purchased an '80s semi-detached bungalow and currently in the process of renovation. Originally, the property was heated via a warm air system and water heater, but this was replaced ~10 years ago with a Combi Boiler CH/HW system. In the kitchen there is a cupboard in which was...

Hi all I have terrible damp and fungus growth under the wood floor on the ground floor of our typical victorian terraced house. We had a new patio door put in and this has removed the air bricks. Only now do we realise the error of this. So before I go about replacing all the joists and boards...

Hi, Suspended floor needs replacement due to woodworm infestation, on the quote I got they mention , one of the work will be "replacement the original terracotta air bricks with high efficiency plastic ventilation" - this because of "lack of ventilation to the sub floor". Of course I will...

Hi everyone. Our cellar has a sleeper wall in the middle of it but is not honeycombed. Its quite musty down there and so I want to improve the cross ventilation by adding some air bricks to the sleeper wall. What I want to know is whether it's okay to have an air brick lower down the wall with...

Hi everyone, Our Victorian ground floor flat has a number of walls with damp issues. We recently changed our carpets and that allowed me to pop a few of the original floorboards up to have a look at the condition of the sub floor - I’m super worried about dry rot and other sinister issues...

Good morning. I am looking at making my attached garage more cofortable and with less humidity, it currently runs around 80%. Garage is 5m x 5m, one wall is pretty mucy all taken up with a double garage door, one wall is the link to the house so I have 2 external walls at 90 Deg to each other...

The airbricks (2) at the front of the house are sightly above ground level. When it rains heavily it smells slightly musty in living room by the window (where the airbricks are). Wondering if rain is going under the house. if they're too low, what methods should be used to rectify it? Please see...

We have a small wooden strip below our French doors on the outside which has rotted with small holes appearing. This strip is approx. 9cm tall. Behind it is an open gap underneath our floorboards.Can I strip this wood out and replace it with air bricks? Or we have some leftover black PVC panels...

Hi We have a new build, 2 years old (incase this is relevant to how under a house is built) We had an bit of an accident with a paddling pool when the kids were playing in it and some air escaped, causing loads of water to flood out and down the lawn (which took the brunt of it), but as the...

We have just removed a patio in our garden because we realised it had been laid on top of decking so the whole thing was moving. We thought we'd take it out ourselves and see what was underneath it before deciding what to do next. The patio was tiles laid onto decking which we thought was a...

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...

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...

My downstairs "Tyneside" flat, built in 1900, often smells quite musty. The floors are suspended floorboards, no insulation but gaps filled in. There is one air brick to the front of the property and a couple at the back but when I went under the floor, they seem blocked off at the back (from...