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Hello all,
Looking for some advice please.
I bought a room bed detached bungalow last year in April. The bungalow has a heatrea sadia electric boiler supplying heat via radiators to all rooms.
I have UVPC windows, old bit with trickle vents.
I also have a PIV in my loft which I was told was for the previous owner for asthma problems.
Anyway, winter was freezing! And I had condensation on windows and walls developed a smell of stale cigarettes/damp.
Now the weather is better I've moved furniture about and found powdery black mould, which I have wiped off in internal walls.
All internal vents have been removed previously and plastered over.
I have two to three air vents on every wall around the detached bungalow.
I have removed the vents and they have a plastic sleeve in, filled with expanding foam and old newspaper.
The newspaper smelt badly of damp.
They didn't vent anywhere as internally blocked.
I removed the sleeve and I do have cavity wall insulation. The small particle one which is blown in.
My question is... are these plastic vents OK to be blocked both sides? Is the plastic tube supposed to be there?
Could this be causing damp and smelly walls?
As I have the PIV is this OK?
Thanks in advance, smell is horrid!!
Kids toys that fall down by bed against wall smell really bad, and have to be washed!
Looking for some advice please.
I bought a room bed detached bungalow last year in April. The bungalow has a heatrea sadia electric boiler supplying heat via radiators to all rooms.
I have UVPC windows, old bit with trickle vents.
I also have a PIV in my loft which I was told was for the previous owner for asthma problems.
Anyway, winter was freezing! And I had condensation on windows and walls developed a smell of stale cigarettes/damp.
Now the weather is better I've moved furniture about and found powdery black mould, which I have wiped off in internal walls.
All internal vents have been removed previously and plastered over.
I have two to three air vents on every wall around the detached bungalow.
I have removed the vents and they have a plastic sleeve in, filled with expanding foam and old newspaper.
The newspaper smelt badly of damp.
They didn't vent anywhere as internally blocked.
I removed the sleeve and I do have cavity wall insulation. The small particle one which is blown in.
My question is... are these plastic vents OK to be blocked both sides? Is the plastic tube supposed to be there?
Could this be causing damp and smelly walls?
As I have the PIV is this OK?
Thanks in advance, smell is horrid!!
Kids toys that fall down by bed against wall smell really bad, and have to be washed!