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I can't imagine how cold it was in a bitter winter like that. I barely remember the winter of 1963, except we had deep snow on the Dorset Coast, where it's rarely seen. Back then we had coal/coke fires in the house I grew up in too. This house we live in now was built early 1950's and...

One inside vent in the kitchen is at the back of the cupboard under the kitchen sink. Another is behind a top cupboard, and we get damp in there. The vents are 11"x12" so most of the vent covers are too small to cover them. I might have to make something up.

Thanks for the link big-all. This would work in the living room, where there is a really cheap plastic vent cover that doesn't close, but in all the other rooms the vents are the original brick ones, almost 11" by 10", and they jut out into the room almost an inch as well. I hadn't thought...

I just started looking at covers today. These are the best I can find so far. Hopefully I can get some and fit them in the next few weeks. As said, it's ok under the covers, but even with the radiator up high the walls are cold, just like yours.

Our house was built in the 1950's and we have the same problem with the southwest side. It's also a semi. The kitchen and bathroom downstairs and bedroom upstairs are always cold, even in summer. It's almost like they are haunted, if that makes sense. They also have air vents high up in...

We have a 1950's house that has large square air bricks in each room, about 9 inches below ceiling level, and with a vent the same size on the inside of each room, upstairs as well. We are getting huge drafts from these, especially as we live halfway up a hill, and the house is a semi...