Anyone with a old house as cold as me? brrr

loracan1

The only room in my house that gets really warm is my sons' bedroom, which is also the only one to have an overly thick window cover (bamboo blind covered with double layer of fabric), noticeable difference in warmth when it's rolled up too. Do you have lined curtains up in the coldest rooms?

SteveV2

beetlebum wrote: »

When my Mum recently moved into a 1930's property with solid 200mm thick concrete block walls I did the following:

Stud out all the external walls, fill with 60mm Celotex and plasterboard. As I was renewing all the rads too, this also enabled me to hide the pipework too. Then I made use of the NPower £1 loft insulation deal and put 27 rolls in the loft.... so ended up with 270mm on top of the existing 50mm.

The cost of the wood, plasterboard and Celotex insulation probably cost me £200 ish. There were other associated costs, like altering the pipework and extending the electric cables etc. Obviously it was quite labour intensive as I'm not a professional. But having done this, the place now warms up really quickly and retains the heat brilliantly.

I did something similar with mine. We counter battened the walls and hung tri iso super 9 between them. Plasterboarded and plaster to finish. It has the same value as 200mm of fibre glass insulation. Worked out a bit more at about a grand all in but we are reaping the benefits while we sit here in T shirts.

AGBAGB

Be wary of too much internal wall insulation. It's posible that it can increase moisture levels at walls between floors. You dont want rotten or infested joists.

I'm not saying internal isulation is bad but there is a down side.