How to block off holes in your house?

zebidee1

I've come to realise that my house is full of holes....literally. I didn't appreciate this was the case until we started refurbing it.

I suppose the worst and largest amount are the holes where pipes come up through the floor, like under the kitchen sink for instance. You never see or notice these normally so I'd never really thought about it but since our kitchen is out now we see everything.

What would be the best method of blocking the airflow off around these holes? We're sitting here freezing tonight and it's mainly because of the draughts.

I know from reading tradesmens forums that you should not use expanding foam near electric cable as the foam will cause the cable to become brittle, but I don't know if it can be used near copper and plastic pipes?

If not foam, what else?

Poppycat

Mastic is fine for bigger holes shove some newspaper in the fill to a depth of a 1cm or thereabouts. I been using mastic tonight prior to decorating, its called decorators filler

You can uses expanding foam but its not cheap

myhooose

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/43569/Sealants-Adhesives/Expanding-Foams/Expanding-Foams/No-Nonsense-Expanding-Foam-Hand-750ml
Used it to seal up holes in my house

KLB

If you suffer from mice at all, then block off your holes with wire wool, unlike expanding foam, they can't chew through it.

gooner045

Any good on mouths this mastic stuff

Poppycat

Unfortunately it wouldn't fill you nasty mouth gooner045. gooner045 is a stalker by the way he looks for my posts and then likes to comment on the threads. Poor sad little boy you are? and you claim "we are adults" in a post, dont make me laugh

Bang

Fire cement!

Ice_2

I had afew drafts in my house...it was mainly caused by an ill fitting loft hatch...got a sheet of 1" MDF and cut a new one out undercoated it then glossed it but some handles on to use when going in and out of the loft it stopped alot of the draft ...
then under the bath was a hole as large as a football for the pipes why I ask well I don't know so some expanding foam sorted that one out...around the shirting boards gaps of more than a cm so a got some sealent just normal white stuff the cheapest I could find from toolstation around 89p a tube and went along that in each room before putting any more new laminate or carpet down...I have also found that if you put underlay under carpets even ones that are foam backed this not only proves as sound proof but also stops any drafts..took a cupborad down in my front bedroom which revealed a large hole packed it with cardboard then polyfillered it works a treat you cannot see there was a hole...hth's:D

gooner045

Poppycat wrote: »

Unfortunately it wouldn't fill you nasty mouth gooner045. gooner045 is a stalker by the way he looks for my posts and then likes to comment on the threads. Poor sad little boy you are? and you claim "we are adults" in a post, dont make me laugh

Stalking you lol, dont flatter yourself. Stalking ive heard it all now. O.K from this time on I wont post in any of your posts from now, am i allowed to look at any though ? Stalking? pmsl

Main Entry: stalk·ing
Function: noun
: the act or crime of willfully and repeatedly following or harassing another person in circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to fear injury or death esp. because of express or implied threats; broadly : a crime of engaging in a course of conduct directed at a person that serves no legitimate purpose and seriously alarms, annoys, or intimidates that person
NOTE: Stalking is often considered to be aggravated when the conduct involved also violates a restraining order protecting the victim.

zebidee1

Please dont fight on my thread. I have enough 'discussions' going on in my own house right now without you two making it worse.

Bang.....I wasn't sure if the fire cement was an actual thing or some sort of comment for the two who were fighting. :rotfl: Anyway, I googled it and it seems quite good, cheers.

Good idea about the wire wool too.

gooner045

zebidee1 wrote: »

Please dont fight on my thread. I have enough 'discussions' going on in my own house right now without you two making it worse.

lol good hit mate