I find it hard to believe that enough of your lost heat was going through the walls, and that two layers of bricks is all that different to 2 layers of bricks + insulation.
Now how much did it cost to install?
Exactly, useless cowboys. I they where any good they wouldn't be faffing about on the low fixed fee installation schemes.
So the taxes the government are stealing aren't even saving anyone any money?
In effect only one layer of brick, the cavity would be ventilated.
Why don't you look at some U value tables? The insulation would be improved by a factor of around three or four. Astonishing such ignorance these days.
Another assumption on your part. You're good at assuming things you have no facts about.
Depends how well ventilated. It certainly won't be cooled to outside air temperature.
I prefer experience. U value tables don't tell you where the heat goes in the average house.
You see that bit where I said the house was of non standard construction. That means that it is not made out of two layers of brick.
£100 - but it was a backhander. I saw some guys fitting cavity wall insulation and waited until their boss was not there and then asked them if they did jobs on the side.
There are no vents into my cavity other than the open gap at the top of the walls.
Indeed, otherwise the cavity would be pretty pointless. I assumed all houses had a tube through from the outside to under the floor.
What is it made out of?
Ahhh! But why didn't you get the government to pay for it out of other = people's taxes like most do? Or was this before they started stealing o= r money?
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What is it made out of?
Breeze on the inside and concrete blocks on the outside. The block are very thin apart from at the edges.
Ahhh! But why didn't you get the government to pay for it out of other people's taxes like most do? Or was this before they started stealing or money?
I would not be eligible for free insulation. Even with a subsidy it would have cost mre than £100
That's pretty normal isn't it? My parents' house is like that (which I = think is newer than my 1979 house). Dunno if they've got cavity insulat= ion, but I'm sure most of their heat goes up the fireplace chimney.
I thought everybody was eligible for free insulation?
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Do they use the fireplace?
Every evening of a heating-related time of the year. My dad likes fire and spends quite some time building it correctly :-)
Should put in a wood burner. Get much more heat and much less draughts.
If not, then at other times of year block chimney with a chimney balloon.
No ... there was a requirement for a minimum uLevel of heat loss, but no requirement for cavity fill.
I built in 1984 and used inner & outer skin of Heatlite2 blocks - no cavity fill.
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Naw you had to be a pensioner or in receipt of certain benefits or something, it certainly wasn't available for everyone.
I think the rules have changed now and there is the "Green Deal", but that's a loan not a grant/subsidy.
Indeed, my neighbour didn't pay for it or the loft insulation and he's o= n a reasonable income. I don't know if it was British Gas.
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If you build your own, does anybody check? It's your heating bill after all.
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