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    Too many air bricks?

    Hmm. I'm not actually aware of any other ventilation. We have 2 gas fires in open chimneys which I think we've briefly used about three times in the 4 years we've been living here. Our bathroom suffers from quite a bit of condensation and our bedroom windows sometimes have some...
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    Too many air bricks?

    That's true, and the extension has probably been there over 40 years, which is a little worrying! Did you find that it made a noticeable difference?
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    Too many air bricks?

    That's interesting, because even if I average them out across the width and depth of the part of the house with floorboards, I think that they are around 1m apart centre to centre round the front and side of the house. The back seems to only have 2 though, which seems too few. Is it...
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    Too many air bricks?

    So how are the floorboards themselves ventilated then?
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    Too many air bricks?

    I read about that, but I don't really understand - doesn't that impede the under floor ventilation even more than stopping up half the air bricks would? In the hall and on the lower stairs at times I can actually feel a noticeable cold current of air coming upwards through the carpet (if I...
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    Too many air bricks?

    We've got carpet in both rooms which are particularly bad, although I can still feel a draft around the edges of the laminate floor at the skirting boards in other rooms in the house as well. Is the only way of dealing with this pulling up the carpet and relaying with insulated underlay?
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    Too many air bricks?

    Hi, We have a 1930s brick semi. At the front, we have a bay (brick). The bay has 4 air bricks in at ground level spaced 58cm, 68cm and 58cm respectively. There is a noticable draft in the front room. In the side wall where our hall/stairs are there are another 4 air bricks at ground...
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