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thanks for the info. i'm a little hesitant to dig the floor up as it still has the original parquet and tiles, i will get a costing together for the wall insulation tho. thanks again

thanks for the reply. I have tried opening windows, but the house just gets very cold as it is worse in the winter. the main bedroom is the most affected and as it opens on to a fairly busy road it gets cold and very noisy. even with the fan in the bathroom and windows open we still get black...

Cheers john i'll check them out.

Thanks for the reply. I have checked a couple of books and there seems to be a fair bit of advice for cavity walls,sub floor venting with airbricks and boarded over fireplaces. unfortunately i have a completely solid ground floor, no wall cavities, 2 bricked up fireplaces and 2 open with a...

Hi, i have a 2 bed terraced house around 150 years old with around 100 years of "improvements" to rectify. my biggest problem at the moment is that it has no ventilation aside from a small fan in the bathroom. It has 4 fire places, the 2 upstairs are bricked up, the front room has been boxed...