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Yeah, I’m not overly surprised by that. To be honest it’s more the rate of which the temperature is dropping house wide is what first made me think there’s an issue. I’ve got the heating on now for a couple hrs, I’ll show it’s rate of rise and fall through the day later (I’m currently silicone...

Yes, I didn’t choose the location the hive engineer just replaced the old thermostat with that one in that location. I will move it. That said - I’m using that in conjunction with another 7 digital thermometers and the difference in readings is fairly small between them, or atleast the rate at...

Yes I’ve purchased a bunch (7) of those digital thermometers and have been looking at each to try and ascertain which rooms are getting coldest soonest post turning the heating off. To be honest they all seem to drop at a similar rate, top floor quickest, middle floor next, bottom floor slowest...

I have, certainly what we were billed last month in the cold snap added up to what we thought we’d used. It’s an older meter measuring in M3. I’m measuring now and will post the photos in reply to this in an hours time or so. Last time I calculated it it was costing between £4.50 and £5 per hour...

Sure, though the rate of which it’s dropping and the fact I can feel a breeze is enough for me to want to see what I can do. We’ve a 42kw boiler costing a good £5 per hour to have on (11p per kw hr or so). And within a few hours of being off we’re almost back at the temperature we were before...

Yeah ok maybe I need to speak to our building control folks and see if they can recommend a local team to do it. Yeah that’s what I’m hoping to do ahead of the air test by DIY’ing as much as possible. We don’t have a hatch as it has two dorma bedrooms on the top floor, has fire rated French...

Yeah I’ve seen them on Amazon though seriously mixed reviews unless you go for the ‘pro’ ones which are nigh on the price of having an actual ‘pro’ come and do a full thermal survey…. So not sure which is best there. Yes, I meant exactly that…. As part of the air test Do you know if the actual...

Appreciate it won’t be helping re: the windows, though they’re not that old, landing window 2008 ish, verticals down stairs only fitted a few months ago. Given how ’new’ they are, could they be the culprit for the drafts I’m feeling when I put my head down to the level of the landing floor...

Yes sorry, I should’ve said. Originally a 1955 bungalow, suspended floors. (Partially insulated, WIP) Previous owner Extended from a bungalow to a 3 story property in 2008, re-bricked and added wall insulation to cavity then (glass wool battens) Re: what Draft proofing is in place - no idea...

Hi all, I'm trying to track down and fix a problem we've noticed this Winter where we're waking up to a really cold property, some mornings it's been as low as 7.5 degrees inside and we believe there's likely a bunch of issues contributing to it. We're dealing with fixing the loft insulation on...

Everything in this reply made total sense and already in hand, after i'm done with insulating the walls properly, my next focus is the loft floor, i'll be raising as much of it as possible to get 270-300mm of wool (currently 100mm) beneath the boarded sections (plus some atop the boarded...

Ah Yes i've already started this in earnest, though I didn't chamfer the edges at the top of the 50mm wall boards already in the studs as I've bought a load of 100mm board that will be going over the top (appreciate this may be overkill, better than underkill i guess!)....the plan was to...

Ok gotcha, yes im assuming ours doesn't have a barrier between house and loft due to it being a cold loft they're just using the the ventilation from the soffits to clear any rising moisture away. On the topic about insulating the roof. The rafters in our roof are 200mm, if I went with 150mm of...

Ahh, right, im with you now @robinbanks . I thought you meant making the whole of the cold loft space into a warm space. You mean just the portion on the other side of the plywood where the pipes are. I've put some photoshopped images below now of the current setup, a version where just the...

I agree, whatever happens with the loft space on the other side of that boiler room 'wall' Even if that does stay as a cold space, the boiler room will be made into a warm space. As shown on the video, roof-wise in that section it looks like someone started to do it and give up as it does have...

Also @robinbanks ... throwing the finances aside for a moment, the uninsulated loft floor spaces.... Can I use insulation boards here instead of roll? given all the cables etc. 150mm of celotex would be alot easier than 300mm of roll in this scenario despite the increase in cost. Does anyone...

Yeah, hmm...I was afraid you was afraid I was going to say that.... Nothing but less than ideal news with this house, i've come to expect the news to always be bad now..... I see what you mean, in the example of converting this to a warm roof, the floor insulation is lifted to put a moisture...

I'd considered having that stud dwarf wall out and get insulation in that way, wife is fine with this (it's her office). Blown in XPS beads i've heard mixed things about them and the power cables being buried by them. Roof is Rosemary clay tiles.

Aye carumba indeed, unfortunately that isn't the end of the shoddy workmanship im afraid, I found more stuff today where insulation in the roof/dorma is entirely being bypassed because of huge gaps between where the vertical celotex boards are meeting the angled ones in the roof, we're talking...

Thanks @robinbanks I've updated the birds-eye view as I've realised the floorplan I took it from was actually really inaccurate. FA1 - Q1,2,3 - Let me share a video with you below....it's difficult to explain well the situation with words and birds-eye plans, i think i can implement...