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Hi everyone I'm new to this forum so any help will be gratefully received.
We're in the process of renovating our first home that is a 60's, two story, dormer type type 3 bedroom semi that we purchased last summer.
We've had it rewired & a new central heating system installed so some of the upstairs boards have been removed, we've also recently had it decorated throughout .
My problems are when you put your hands down by the skirting board at the bottom of the upstairs stud walls you can feel a terrible draught coming through the dormer cheek. On windy days you can even feel gusts of winds. On further investigation I lifted a board near as possible to the stud wall & was amazed to find that where the downstairs wall (dwarf?) wall meets the upstairs stud wall there are in places two courses of bricks missing in the upstairs floor void. I also read on another forum that with the current building regs this floor void should be airtight. As a temporary measure I've wedged Rockwool pieces between the joists & between the downstairs ceiling & upstairs floorboards in the 3 bedrooms. This has made it much better where it's been done in the 3 bedrooms but it's still blowing a gale through the bathroom floor as I've not got access to it yet. I didn't realise these houses were so draughty & poorly insulated.
My questions are:
1. What would be the best way to permanently cure this problem? Would it be possible do you think to get a builder to take off the soffits outside & then if possible replace the missing courses of bricks up to the stud wall? The distance between the joists in most places is about 16".
2. Is there a way of insulating the stud Walls from the outside or the dormer cheek as I would be reluctant to remove the plasterboard from the inside as we've had it recently decorated? If so how could this be done on this type of house.
Thanks for reading.
We're in the process of renovating our first home that is a 60's, two story, dormer type type 3 bedroom semi that we purchased last summer.
We've had it rewired & a new central heating system installed so some of the upstairs boards have been removed, we've also recently had it decorated throughout .
My problems are when you put your hands down by the skirting board at the bottom of the upstairs stud walls you can feel a terrible draught coming through the dormer cheek. On windy days you can even feel gusts of winds. On further investigation I lifted a board near as possible to the stud wall & was amazed to find that where the downstairs wall (dwarf?) wall meets the upstairs stud wall there are in places two courses of bricks missing in the upstairs floor void. I also read on another forum that with the current building regs this floor void should be airtight. As a temporary measure I've wedged Rockwool pieces between the joists & between the downstairs ceiling & upstairs floorboards in the 3 bedrooms. This has made it much better where it's been done in the 3 bedrooms but it's still blowing a gale through the bathroom floor as I've not got access to it yet. I didn't realise these houses were so draughty & poorly insulated.
My questions are:
1. What would be the best way to permanently cure this problem? Would it be possible do you think to get a builder to take off the soffits outside & then if possible replace the missing courses of bricks up to the stud wall? The distance between the joists in most places is about 16".
2. Is there a way of insulating the stud Walls from the outside or the dormer cheek as I would be reluctant to remove the plasterboard from the inside as we've had it recently decorated? If so how could this be done on this type of house.
Thanks for reading.