DraughtBusters

Energy saving advice and help

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    • A typical DraughtBust
    • Helping to set up other groups
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  • Draught proofing
    • How to get started
    • A Case Study
    • Why draughts?
    • Windows and doors
      • Front Door
      • Draughty roof windows
      • Trickle Ventilators
      • uPVC door problems
      • UPVC window seals
    • Redundant AirBricks
    • Floors
    • Loft and first floor ceilings
    • Loft Traps
    • Pet Flaps
    • What is going on under your bath?
  • Finding Draughts
    • How to survey a building for draughts
    • Problem encountered during 2021/2022
    • Dry lined homes
    • Modern timber frame
    • Victorian terraced houses
    • Chalet Bungalow
    • Cross walled homes
    • Early cavity wall homes
    • Concrete panel houses
    • Solid stone and cob homes
  • Help Reducing Energy Use
  • Advanced Air Sealing
    • Problems with Drylined Homes
      • Problems with dot and dabbed walls
      • Around openings in walls
      • Draughts in the first floor void
    • Going Further
      • First Floor Void
      • Condensation mini case study
      • Controlling your heating system
      • Heat loss from unused chimneys
      • Types of damp in the home
      • Draughts and condensation
      • In House Winter Cooling Systems
    • More Advanced
      • Upgrading to Underfloor Heating
      • Lead Pumping
      • Why so many flat roofs fail
      • Summer Condensation
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Redundant AirBricks

These are bane of a draughtbusters life. They are holes which go from inside a home to outside and were intended in the 1960’s era to ventilate a room or larder/cupboard. With the advent of domestic heating air-bricks were often required to provide combustion air, most typically for open vented gas boilers. We have written to GasSafe about this suggesting to them that when such a boiler is removed the air brick should either be removed or blocked up, they have not taken any action on this leaving thousands with unnecessarily cold and draughty rooms. 

Air-bricks in bedrooms are generally safe to block the majority look like this, stuffing the holes inside the room with tissue is the first action. 

This one was behind a kitchen cupboard and here is what it looked like without the flash, you can see straight outside. The fluffy stuff in the air brick liner was removed, it was stray cavity wall insulation. 

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