Hi all,
Having moved into our first home, my partner decided she hated the nasty, badly made, 'falling to pieces' kitchen. So, we set about overhauling the whole room. After months of living like students, we have a lovely new working cooker are approaching the stage where we the extractor hood needs to be fitted.
Despite living here for months it is only with this task in hand that I have inspected the outside wall and found 2 air bricks that go nowhere! I am pretty sure that they were both for air extraction at one time or another but have been blocked over internally. From a quick inspection I think they are both not blocked up internally. Is this a concern? If so, should I go about removing them and replacing the brickwork? Or is there a way to block them up without removal? Maybe I could remove the closest one to our new cooker hood and hook up the ducting?
Thanks in advance!
Ste
Edit: Having just been outside and inspected closer (almost 1am with a mobile phone light!!), the 1 air brick is lined all the way through the cavity and mortared up internal wall side (internal wall is plastered over) - other than potential rain getting in, is this one a problem? The other one is not actually an air brick, rather a plastic vent covering what seems to be metal gauze. I think I have cavity wall insulation, could this be ventilation for this? Cheers!
Having moved into our first home, my partner decided she hated the nasty, badly made, 'falling to pieces' kitchen. So, we set about overhauling the whole room. After months of living like students, we have a lovely new working cooker are approaching the stage where we the extractor hood needs to be fitted.
Despite living here for months it is only with this task in hand that I have inspected the outside wall and found 2 air bricks that go nowhere! I am pretty sure that they were both for air extraction at one time or another but have been blocked over internally. From a quick inspection I think they are both not blocked up internally. Is this a concern? If so, should I go about removing them and replacing the brickwork? Or is there a way to block them up without removal? Maybe I could remove the closest one to our new cooker hood and hook up the ducting?
Thanks in advance!
Ste
Edit: Having just been outside and inspected closer (almost 1am with a mobile phone light!!), the 1 air brick is lined all the way through the cavity and mortared up internal wall side (internal wall is plastered over) - other than potential rain getting in, is this one a problem? The other one is not actually an air brick, rather a plastic vent covering what seems to be metal gauze. I think I have cavity wall insulation, could this be ventilation for this? Cheers!