Sounds so silly but keeping all room doors shut makes a big difference. Pulling curtains as it gets dark helps.
wearing an extra layer or two helps. make sure all your rads have been bled as well.
HTH
Would agree with clubman. Bought a house two years ago which was constructed in 1972 (and last decorated then too). It was freezing last winter, not helped by the single glazing and hollow block wall construction. So battened of the inside face of the external walls and insulated with 35mm kingspan then plasterboard drylined. Replaced the windows and put 250mm in the attic. Also insulated between the joists on the ground floor. made a huge difference but had to move out while doing it
Totally agree makes a bit difference.Agree with all the above and just to add to it. If you have long curtains, make sure they don't cover top of rad as you are heating the space between the window and the closed curtain. tuck ends of curtains on sill to keep top of rad free.
(plus brought my dad alond to buy it as he is over 60 and said store offers further 10% discount on certain days)
We also did my parents house aprox same size but built in 1985.
Your parents could probably have gotten the attic done for free.
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Just call them and see if they can help. It's possible that the website is out of date or that there are similar schemes in operation outside Dublin.Who do you contact to get this done outside of Dublin. It states on the Energy Action web site that it's for Dublin only!!!!
Bear in mind that a certain level of ventilation around the eaves is recommended in attic spaces!In terms of a warmer house you could insulate the attic (and any other place cold air is coming in) with expandable foam. I'm not sure of how good it is but seems easy to apply and also gets into all the nukes and crannys.
Watersprite,
Don't understand why you could'nt dryline the inside of the house. I battened the interior walls of mine and insulated but kingspan also have a insulated bonded plasterboard. If your house was built the same as mine some of the hollow sections of the breeze block where filled with mortar which would not have allowed the blown material to get all sections of the wall, and also you would still have what they call cold bridgeing where the concrete block bridges from outside to inside.
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