Hi folks, hoping for some advice please?
We have a 1930s bay-fronted semi. Unlike most, we have left our porch open (front door is set back about 50cm from the front archway.
The wall to the right of our front door, appears to be a single skin wall into the living room at the front. We had an issue with water pooling in the porch and this caused damp on the internal wall. I have remedied this by stripping the porch tiles and angling the floor toward the edge of the step, so water runs off.
We are acutely aware that with the energy costs rising, this wall is a source of heat loss for the house and want to take steps to insulate before it gets too cold.
To insulate internally would mean losing space along the entire wall of the room. Alternatively we can insulate the sliver in the porch.
Can anyone advise the best way to do this please? I had been thinking about battening the wall and using insulated plaster board, but am not entirely sure about the plasterboard being open to the elements whether it's been rendered over or not.
Help! (P.s. thanks for reading so far.... If you got this far!)
We have a 1930s bay-fronted semi. Unlike most, we have left our porch open (front door is set back about 50cm from the front archway.
The wall to the right of our front door, appears to be a single skin wall into the living room at the front. We had an issue with water pooling in the porch and this caused damp on the internal wall. I have remedied this by stripping the porch tiles and angling the floor toward the edge of the step, so water runs off.
We are acutely aware that with the energy costs rising, this wall is a source of heat loss for the house and want to take steps to insulate before it gets too cold.
To insulate internally would mean losing space along the entire wall of the room. Alternatively we can insulate the sliver in the porch.
Can anyone advise the best way to do this please? I had been thinking about battening the wall and using insulated plaster board, but am not entirely sure about the plasterboard being open to the elements whether it's been rendered over or not.
Help! (P.s. thanks for reading so far.... If you got this far!)