cold feet

[Crakkers]

Hi all,

Often the floor area of my lounge is cold, and I mean cold. It can be that your ankles and noticeably cold to the enxtent sometime we sit with our feet up, not because we like to but because its b****y cold!

The foloor is traditional timber on joists. There is underlay and carpet.

A CH engineer recently the commented that I have loads of space below the floor, grat for running pipes etc!. However, I am now wondering if this is providinga large heat sink space. if so can I insulate, and if i can how easy is it to do - all the floor boards up? OR can I pump something in?

Please help, getting frisky on the floor with the missus is a no no until the summer!

Brian

 

[Monsoon]

Sounds like you are getting a fair amount of cold from outside coming in under the floorboards.

I'd try and identify where the cold air was getting into the floor space.

Try and seal any obvious holes eg. around pipework.

Overboarding with flooring grade chipboard will make a big difference if your floorboards are gappy/damaged

 

[IJWS15]

if you want a big return lift the boards and put fibreglass/rockwool between the joists supported by some plastic netting.

If the space underneath is big enough you may be able to do it from underneath.