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moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 06 9:48 pm Post subject: Getting Cavity Wall Insulation

The back end of my house (the 60's extension) is so cold you can see your breath in the morning. I have to avoid that area as much as possible when I am trying to stay warm but as it contains the kitchen and bathroom sometimes I don't have much choice.

So I have been looking into cavity insulation and grants etc. Only trouble is it looks like we're are not entitled to a grant either because we are not on benefits or because the rest of the house does not have cavity walls, only the extension. I got told by British Gas today that they could only claim the grant money back if they did the whole house and the trouble is BG seemed to be the only one I could find that didn't require you to be claiming money from the state.

I'm getting so desparate that I would cheerfully take out a loan to pay for the whole thing but I've been through our yellow pages with a fine toothcomb and can't find anyone advertising CW insulation, is it because they are getting so much work from the councils etc that they don't need any more work.

Does anyone have any advice for a poor frozen moggins who is slowly turning to a block of ice?

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 06 11:09 pm Post subject:
Contact these folk. Its even a freephone number. https://www.cep.org.uk/insulationandheating.php Does your extension have roof insulation? Its generally the most cost effective thing to do first ('cos heat rises). And here's a simple Google search for you. There's rather a lot of useful-looking links for you !!

ken69

Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 316
Location: Norfolk

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 6:13 am Post subject: CAVITY WALL INSULATION
Hi Moggins....Powergen, and I suppose British Gas give out age related grants for cavity wall insulation.Available to owners and tenants. A temporary o.a.p lodger might solve your problem.

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 7:28 am Post subject:
Thanks both of you Dougal for the information and ken for the best laugh I've had this time in the morning

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 8:28 am Post subject:
We do have a trading post section, a "wanted OAP for a couple of days - shivering ability essential" might do the trick. Good luck with the search, for the insulation that is.

ken69

Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 316
Location: Norfolk

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 9:05 am Post subject: cavity wall insulation

Wh..wha..wha.......had me case packed and all...
Tho seriously, I know someone, a landlord in his own right, who has taken in (on a board and lodging rent-a-room tax free basis) one of his tenants, thus releasing the property for development.
The tenant is 80+, and the landlord is now going to put in for everything on the back of this poor bugger on his last legs.
New roof, more loft insulation, cavity wall you name it.
The landlord, who I know well, is being advised by a former disgraced councillor and it's a case of getting it done quick before Old Fred pegs it.Shan't put a smiley.

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 06 10:02 am Post subject:

OMG and there's poor buggers like us who have to sweat for a living (actually I wish I was sweating at the moment.

I just wish I could buy a draught excluder for a cat flap as the wind whistles though ours like there is no tomorrow, DH also pointed out the I have taken the door off the pantry where the huge ventilation panel is. So this morning I am off to make a nice long curtain to cover the pantry doorway

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 06 10:11 am Post subject:
Just wanted to say thanks Dougal!! I've given them a ring and they are sending the forms out for me to sign and then will send a surveyor round.

homeinsulationservices

Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 24

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 06 5:08 pm Post subject:
Hi As i work for one of the U.K's biggest national insulation companys, i can tell you that there will be funding that we can access for you. Typicly a 3 bed semi is arround �120. We would be able to do just the extention

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 06 8:33 pm Post subject:
Awwwh, shame you didn't reply sooner, they came out yesterday to survey and give me a quote and are coming within the next six weeks to do the work. If you have any information about the spray in loft insulation I would be very grateful though, I am having trouble finding any information on it. We don't have a loft, just a sloping roof and we could really do with this being insulated.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 06 10:23 pm Post subject:

moggins wrote:

If you have any information about the spray in loft insulation I would be very grateful though, I am having trouble finding any information on it.
We don't have a loft, just a sloping roof and we could really do with this being insulated.

The stuff that is sprayed onto the underside of a roof is, I believe, widely regarded as being a frightful bodge...

Don't take my word for it. Ask estate agents, surveyors, builders, roofers. I think you will have difficulty finding people who agree with the spray salesmen.
Insulating a *roof*, its essential that you allow proper ventillation. (Otherwise you *will* get damp, and rot... )
If your rafters are 600 or 400 mm apart, you might well be able to use something like Wickes Easy Fit Insulation Board (their product code 210-020). If nothing else, it should be easily removable - its intended to be squeezed between the rafters, and held by simple friction... Worth a fiver to try a pack?

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 06 10:49 pm Post subject:
Hmm, it's sounds like a good idea but I don't know if I could persuade DH to rip off the plasterboard ceiling to do it

Tittch

Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 1768
Location: Chichester

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 06 1:53 pm Post subject:

Word of caution though, our road is made up of 1920s houses - the ones that have cavity insulation suffer horrendously from damp. The ones that don't have it, are fine. Houses need to breathe methinks...

We have filled the gaps in the floor boards, insulated the windows & doors, got Renotherm on the slated roof, plus several inches of loft insulation under the attic boarding, plus clingfilm double glazing for the winter. There are no bad draughts and the house feels 'healthy'.

thos

Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 1139
Location: Jauche, Duchy of Brabant (Bourgogne-ci) and Charolles, Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne-�a)

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 06 2:24 pm Post subject:

I need to do some serious insulation work on the house. It is built of breeze-block, with brick facing.

I did not know if the cavity was insulated, so when I was in the loft yesterday I looked at the outside walls up there. There are a few areas around the joists that seem somewhat over-ventilated. However, the gap between the breeze-block and the brick facing seems to only be an inch or so. Is that normal? and will that preclude cavity-wall insulation? (in which case I will have to insulate the inside walls) ...

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 06 2:31 pm Post subject:
Thanks Tittch, luckily it's only the extension that is being done and we're thinking of extending that next year anyway so it will give us a year to find out if it works and whether or not to have it put in the new wall, if not at least the extension will have one breathable wall left.

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