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Hello - we bought our house last year - it had been completely renovated by the previous owners in 2018. Great, we thought, this will be toasty warm and up to code.
There is a loft conversion with a near full lenth dormer on the back, which contains the master bedroom and ensuite - pretty standard. This conversion faces into the prevailing wind and we back onto a park, so the wind really rips into it.
In winter, it is freezing up there. Air whooses loudly around the plasterboard walls.
Today, I removed one of the downlighters and stuck a camera up into the ceiling.
There are generous soffit vents running the length of the dormer. These blow a continious gale directly across the plasterboard ceiling of the bedroom, below the assumed 'warm roof'.
This is *obviously* nuts, no? Is there any good reason for this or should I just get those vents removed ASAP. Heat is leached away from that room in minutes - there is NO WAY this is how it was designed to be. Surely?
Any ideas very welcome!
There is a loft conversion with a near full lenth dormer on the back, which contains the master bedroom and ensuite - pretty standard. This conversion faces into the prevailing wind and we back onto a park, so the wind really rips into it.
In winter, it is freezing up there. Air whooses loudly around the plasterboard walls.
Today, I removed one of the downlighters and stuck a camera up into the ceiling.
There are generous soffit vents running the length of the dormer. These blow a continious gale directly across the plasterboard ceiling of the bedroom, below the assumed 'warm roof'.
This is *obviously* nuts, no? Is there any good reason for this or should I just get those vents removed ASAP. Heat is leached away from that room in minutes - there is NO WAY this is how it was designed to be. Surely?
Any ideas very welcome!
