Hello all, I hope someone can give me (on behalf of my Grandson) some advice.
He has a terraced house and the ends of the loft space are partialy open - you can see through to the neighbours loft at one end. There is just the shared chimney in the centre of the space but there are wedge shaped openings at each side of it.
The neighbours on the other side have just used bits of board which is fine but the problem is that the neighbours on the open side are not the cleanest of people (although very nice) and he often gets unpleasant smells in his attic. This means he would like to block that side up and seal it as well as possiblle and would like to know the best way to do so without causing any airflow/condensation problems. He had some tile vents installed a few yaers back due to condensation up there and doesn't want to do anything that will cause it to return.
His idea is to fill the voids with rockwool, make some basic framework and fix polythene over it and leave it like that or possibly plasterboard over the polythene as well.
Any advice as to whether this would be ok or not, or other methods would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Maggie
He has a terraced house and the ends of the loft space are partialy open - you can see through to the neighbours loft at one end. There is just the shared chimney in the centre of the space but there are wedge shaped openings at each side of it.
The neighbours on the other side have just used bits of board which is fine but the problem is that the neighbours on the open side are not the cleanest of people (although very nice) and he often gets unpleasant smells in his attic. This means he would like to block that side up and seal it as well as possiblle and would like to know the best way to do so without causing any airflow/condensation problems. He had some tile vents installed a few yaers back due to condensation up there and doesn't want to do anything that will cause it to return.
His idea is to fill the voids with rockwool, make some basic framework and fix polythene over it and leave it like that or possibly plasterboard over the polythene as well.
Any advice as to whether this would be ok or not, or other methods would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Maggie