Cavity Wall Installation

monkmorency

If anybody is thinking of getting cavity wall insulation at the moment, you might be as well to wait until next month.

I just spoke to the local council, who said that the energy companies who do this receive grants, and therefore their prices are subsidised. At this time of year, however, their grant funding is likely to have run out, so you should get a better price in April when the new grants are released.

Hope this helps someone

Acrorat_Jules

I claim working tax credit, family tax credit and have less than £15k coming in each money and I got my cavities filled (no - not at the dentist - that would be a miracle to find a free dentist!) and my loft insulated for nothing. I am with British Gas (but not for much longer!) and I qualified - I mentioned this to a friend on the same benefits and she has just had hers done a few weeks ago. Worth asking them ....

Jules

gromituk

across wrote:

ive just got my gas bill today and it is worse than any other winter quarter

And this winter has been the coldest for how many years?

gromituk

adr0ck wrote:

[with regard to damp spots] read following article

http://www.ovolopublishing.co.uk/housebuildersupdate/2005/11/on-cavity-wall-insulation.html

Not sure about his rebuttal of the damp spots argument. If your house is not well-ventilated enough, the moisture in the air will reach the level where the dew point rises to that of the coldest spot. If the coldest spot is a bit of wall which isn't insulated, that's where you're going to get condensation. I guess if there isn't much condensation but it all gets concentrated in one area, you're likely to get damp patches appearing once you insulate the wall. But that's because you have inadequate ventilation.

monkey_writer

It's the three v's - ventilate, ventilate, ventilate. Old houses were not built to be hermetically sealed like we prefer our houses to be these days, so if you seal em all up you get trouble spots.

gromituk

In fact no houses were built to be hermetically sealed!

kittiwoz

I'm amazed that there's anyone left who still has an unfilled cavity wall. It makes a huge difference to the energy efficiency of your house. I can only think that Across needs to top up his loft insulation and fit draught excluders on windows and doors. Anyone who can have this done and hasn't should make it a priority. You should see your money back inside two years.

gromituk

kittiwoz wrote:

I'm amazed that there's anyone left who still has an unfilled cavity wall.

Yeah - pity us poor people who have solid walls and need to apply insulation to the inside

kittiwoz

gromituk wrote:

Yeah - pity us poor people who have solid walls and need to apply insulation to the inside

Yeah, me too. Only we rent so we just have to suffer the cold.

briansx

Does anybody know of any Power Suppliers currently offering free cavity wall installation for the over sixties?