cooperman
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Looking for a bit of advice if anyone on here has any knowhow on airbricks and cavities.
Our house was built in the late 20s. In the winter one of the walls is really cold to the touch, and condensation forms on it. It's quite bad and makes the room so much colder than the others in the house. On the wall there's an airbrick (2 bricks high x 1 wide) on the outside to a vent on the inside of the room, about 2/3 up the wall)
During the winter I had a look and found that the internal vent was stuffed with bubble wrap. I pulled this out and noticed the sleeve from the airbrick to the room vent has partly broken up, so the airbrick goes into the cavity as well. There's no insulation in the cavity.
I decided at the time to fill a bag with loft insulation and put it into the vent hole, insulating the room and also stopping the cold air getting into the cavity. It was a temporary fix until the weather warmed up and I could do something more permanent. The improvement to the wall and room was huge.
I'm now reading up a bit to decide what to do, and I'm reading conflicting things about it an airbrick should vent into a cavity and room, or just the room only. It doesn't make sense from my understanding to have such a big opening to the cavity, making the internal walls so cold.
Does anyone have any advice/knowhow they could share on what I should do now?
thanks!
Our house was built in the late 20s. In the winter one of the walls is really cold to the touch, and condensation forms on it. It's quite bad and makes the room so much colder than the others in the house. On the wall there's an airbrick (2 bricks high x 1 wide) on the outside to a vent on the inside of the room, about 2/3 up the wall)
During the winter I had a look and found that the internal vent was stuffed with bubble wrap. I pulled this out and noticed the sleeve from the airbrick to the room vent has partly broken up, so the airbrick goes into the cavity as well. There's no insulation in the cavity.
I decided at the time to fill a bag with loft insulation and put it into the vent hole, insulating the room and also stopping the cold air getting into the cavity. It was a temporary fix until the weather warmed up and I could do something more permanent. The improvement to the wall and room was huge.
I'm now reading up a bit to decide what to do, and I'm reading conflicting things about it an airbrick should vent into a cavity and room, or just the room only. It doesn't make sense from my understanding to have such a big opening to the cavity, making the internal walls so cold.
Does anyone have any advice/knowhow they could share on what I should do now?
thanks!
