I’ve got all the floorboards up throughout my Victorian semi, and have discovered that although the bearer walls are honeycombed, the main supporting walls that divide the rooms on the ground floor are completely solid with no airflow from one space to another.
This means that the two rooms with airbricks (living room at front and dining room at back) have some airflow, but the kitchen is entirely unventilated (no airbricks and sealed off from other spaces below subfloor) and same in hallway.
I’m adding airbricks where I can on external walls, but want to also allow air movement through the spaces.
Do I just drill/ knock a single brick out here and there along the walls? Or do I need to replace each brick I remove with a masonry air brick to maintain some sense of structure to the brickwork, given that they are the key supporting walls?
Or do I need to do something else?
Thanks all!
This means that the two rooms with airbricks (living room at front and dining room at back) have some airflow, but the kitchen is entirely unventilated (no airbricks and sealed off from other spaces below subfloor) and same in hallway.
I’m adding airbricks where I can on external walls, but want to also allow air movement through the spaces.
Do I just drill/ knock a single brick out here and there along the walls? Or do I need to replace each brick I remove with a masonry air brick to maintain some sense of structure to the brickwork, given that they are the key supporting walls?
Or do I need to do something else?
Thanks all!
