Hi,
I recently ripped up some laminate wood flooring in my conservatory as I am planning to tile the floor.
The house in question is of modern construction (about 10 years old) so is breeze block inner wall and brick outer (with a cavity in between).
My question concerns 3 airbricks in the conservatory.
These airbricks are in the outer (brick) wall which is now in the conservatory. They are below the level of the door step which is the french windows. Whoever laid the concrete floor in the conservatory left a void where the 3 airbricks are as the depth of the concrete is only fractionally lower than the level of the top of the airbricks.
Having left a (smallish) void they simply laid the laminate flooring over the void and drilled holes in it to allow air flow.
There are no corresponding vents in the inner wall of the house so I'm assuming all these airbricks are doing is ventilating the cavity of the wall?
Therefore, my question is, can I simply chip out some bricks a couple of rows higher than the floor and put some new airbricks in - allowing me to fill in the voids left for the original airbricks and do a nice job of tiling the floor? or are there some building regs about where the airbricks must be positioned? (a certain height above the dampcourse or something?)
Seeing as 1 airbrick is actually below the doorstep of the french windows I was planning to move that one up and to the side, but you get the idea.
Thanks in advance...
C.
I recently ripped up some laminate wood flooring in my conservatory as I am planning to tile the floor.
The house in question is of modern construction (about 10 years old) so is breeze block inner wall and brick outer (with a cavity in between).
My question concerns 3 airbricks in the conservatory.
These airbricks are in the outer (brick) wall which is now in the conservatory. They are below the level of the door step which is the french windows. Whoever laid the concrete floor in the conservatory left a void where the 3 airbricks are as the depth of the concrete is only fractionally lower than the level of the top of the airbricks.
Having left a (smallish) void they simply laid the laminate flooring over the void and drilled holes in it to allow air flow.
There are no corresponding vents in the inner wall of the house so I'm assuming all these airbricks are doing is ventilating the cavity of the wall?
Therefore, my question is, can I simply chip out some bricks a couple of rows higher than the floor and put some new airbricks in - allowing me to fill in the voids left for the original airbricks and do a nice job of tiling the floor? or are there some building regs about where the airbricks must be positioned? (a certain height above the dampcourse or something?)
Seeing as 1 airbrick is actually below the doorstep of the french windows I was planning to move that one up and to the side, but you get the idea.
Thanks in advance...
C.