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Cavity wall insulation/cold bridge

  • 20-12-2009 6:10pm
    #1
    tampopo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭


    Am interested in getting this done to the house. i asked a neighbour if he'd be interested too, he mentioned he'd be afraid of it causing a cold bridge.

    Surely over the last 30 years it'd been a worry and it would have come up before?

    does it?

    ta much


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  • #2
    Eurorunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Eurorunner


    tampopo wrote: »
    Am interested in getting this done to the house. i asked a neighbour if he'd be interested too, he mentioned he'd be afraid of it causing a cold bridge.

    Surely over the last 30 years it'd been a worry and it would have come up before?

    does it?

    ta much
    Cold bridge? If its cavity fill your talking about, I can't see how this causes a cold bridge. It wont conduct cold from external surface to internal surface.
    Theres the possibility of damp related issues in specific situations but not 'cold bridging'.
    Thats my non-professional understanding of it anyways. I'm sure others will come along and clarify.


  • #3
    tampopo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    thanks


  • #4
    RKQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭RKQ


    Cavity fill blow-in insulation won't cause a "cold brodge".
    Eurorunner is correct in saying "Theres the possibility of damp related issues in specific situations but not 'cold bridging'."

    It would help if both neighbours in both semi-detached houses got it done together - you might get a discount from the installer. But if you want to insulate your own house then do so, you don't need your neighbour.

    Do your homework on blow-in cavity fill. There are threads on boards, google lots of UK examples / experiences etc.

    There is a Government Grant.


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