chippengael
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take off one of the inner grills on your wall vents and see what sort of construction you have before you call anyone
Looks like 9 inch cavity blocks.
C
Block Plastered on the outside and plastered/skimmed on the inside?
No dry-lining on inside?
How can you tell they are 9" cavity?
Did the external insulation cover all the wall vents externally?Actually, externally insulated since 1 year on the outside, but ineffective due to wind entering the structure somehow, suspect the kitchen roof line as vents etc sealed externally as much as possible.
Walls have platerboard on inside, but suspect no insulation behind.
Looking into the ESB box, or down a vent lets you know we are dealing with cavity blocks.
Right now I think it might be best to remove the tiles, insulate as much as possible the roofline and seal it up....
C
To me what the issue is here is that your house has internal drylining on the walls that were dabbed on with no full seal top and bottom of the sheets of plasterboard.
The wall vents in the wall were piped only to the inside face of the block, leaving a gap between the inner block face and the plaster board.
The wind gets in here and all around the house.
Did the external insulation cover all the wall vents externally?
If not and given what you say about the internal plaster board, I will repeat what I first wrote:
In addition where does the wind actual come out in the house?
Did the external insulation stop above the flashing?
by the OP is a scary item and because of this I would be getting the sewage issue sorted first as the draughty house may be a life saver if there is ANY ingress of sewage fumes into a house where, by all accounts the basic ventilation requirements are not being meteven from the toilet flush
Just to add here:
by the OP is a scary item and because of this I would be getting the sewage issue sorted first as the draughty house may be a life saver if there is ANY ingress of sewage fumes into a house where, by all accounts the basic ventilation requirements are not being met
OK, where to begin.
1. We have left open vents in rooms which have boilers/fires, as I believe I have stated already. We're not completely stupid! The vents could be reopend easily in other rooms such as bedrooms etc, but for now we use our windows when necessary. MHRV would be a good idea if we had actually managed to insulate our house effectively - which we haven't.
2. I would agree that the company which carried out the external insulation job are rubbish. However, they were SEI listed and the finished work was inspected by SEI and the grant was approved and paid. Furthermore, they were recommended highly by friends of ours, which was unfortunate. They certainly botched a few things which I am trying to remidiate. The fact that air is circulating unhindered through part the structure underlines one of the issues. There are others, but lets not get too far off topic.
Having lived abroad for years it puzzles me as to why we think it is necessary in Ireland to have holes knocked in every room in our house...?
C
@ chippengael,
Just for the record.
I didn't state, suggest or imply that you were stupid.
I didn't suggest that the company who carried out the work was rubbish.
The company carrying out the work are responsible for carrying it out compliantly.
I think this kind of situation may test the limits of liability for insulation installers where no architect is appointed.
Do they have a responsibility to ensure that alternative ventilation is being provided where if block existing permavents in the course of their work?
ONQ
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