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Thanks. The porch is only 50cm wide, its pretty useless for storing anything in, annoying to get thru the two offset doors and with the airbricks into the porch its not insulating much. As it it has the same insulation as the hallway i.e. none as solid brick. I'm not sure what else to do with...

1950s solid brick build house with a front porch that has a UPVC door install 20 years ago but old internal door is in place still. Its very cold, no insulation on the porch part, air bricks circulate air into the porch so looking at options to insulate. Converting to part of the hallway seems...

Use what's easiest to work with, your joists might not be perfectly straight so roll or slab are probably a better option. My joists are very wonky, I used cavity slabs as easy to cut to width with a Stanley knife, didn't irriate like normal roll fibre and I could get a very good fit. The slabs...

Thanks for the info, we are after a cheap (relative) and easy solution to get the walls into a better condition and insulate. The house is of an older design solid brick for the period it built. Is it not worth worrying about the stairs in the way ? I guess its the same a floorboards which...

We've got a 1950 build solid brick semi detached house. The hallway is always cold and is the largest room facing an outside wall and never gets any sun on it . We need to re-plaster so we were was thinking about putting up insulated plasterboard. We don't have much room to loose but it...

Outside wall, dritherm, vapour barrier + foil to stud frame, foil backed plaster. I cut the dritherm so it was tight fit, if you leave it too wide it crincles up and leaves gaps. Any uneven gaps, I used thin strips and filled best I could. The stud frame was far from straight, up to 5 cm...

I used DriTherm cavity slabs (glass mineral wool) as the gaps I was filling were so uneven in depth and width. Anything rigid would have left big gaps and impossible to cut. I put in a vapour barrier, foil tape etc and used lined plaster board just for good measure. Had no problems all winter...

I've filled in the gaps at the side of the window to the brick wall with expanding foam. I've noticed above the window in a stud wall bay it has a little gap where you can see the light in this photo. On the outside it was a concrete mix that was filling the gap that's fallen away so light comes...

Thanks ... job for the weekend then !

Thanks for the reply and no its not filled in yet ! The gap varies in depth by 5cm and the edges of the wood in the bay are angled at about 30 degrees. Cutting Celotex to fit tight would be impossible so I've decided to use DriTherm (glass) cavity slabs. I'll cut to rough size, it will...

Below the bay window of the main bedroom I've discovered a cavity (see photo) whereas the rest of the house is brick. This drops down to the top of the ground floor bay bay window. It gets very cold in the bedroom and now I know why ! I was thinking of using Celotex 75mm PIR and replace...

I'm posting this as it might help others with this model fridge freezer. I had a problem with water appearing near the door and ice flow (its meant to be a frost free freezer). This is caused (as I discovered today) by a build up of ice that plugs the drip pan tube from the freezer. This is a...