How Can Damp & Mould Affect My Health? – Spotting The Significant Signs
Damp and mould can be annoying and difficult to deal with. If you have a problem with damp or mould, it’s important that you sort it out quickly and effectively so that it doesn’t continue to affect your home and the health of your family. The following article will go through some of the common […]
25 Year CIGA Guarantee – What does it mean?
In this blog post we talk through what the CIGA 25 year guarantee means and how you can use it to make a claim if your cavity wall insulation has failed.
How to make a Cavity Wall Insulation claim
What is Cavity Wall Insulation? To understand why the cavity wall insulation has failed, we first need to know what cavity wall insulation is. Cavity Wall Insulation is a material that was packed into the gap between the inner and outer walls of a property. It was installed to stop heat escaping from a property […]
Is Heavy Rain Causing Damaging Damp In Your Home?
Does your home tend to suffer from damp spots after stormy weather, heavy rain and wind, you live in a unsheltered area or one exposed to wind driven rain? If yes, It could be down to two possible causes, either your home is a solid wall construction, and the moisture is seeping through to the […]
Cavity Wall Insulation – Can it Add Value or Reduce Value to your home?
In this post we look at how in some cases you can add value to your home through the installation of Cavity Wall Insulation (CWI) but also look at how in some circumstances it can actually end up reducing the value as well as causing problems to your beloved home, that could end up costing […]
Why A Cavity Wall is Important and its Advantages and Disadvantages.
What is A Cavity Wall? A Cavity Wall is a type of wall construction, where there is an empty gap or cavity left between two layers of brickwork, it is also known as a Hollow Wall. The gap between the two layers of brickwork known as the inner leaf and outer leaf. In modern constructions […]
Cavity Wall Insulation Removal – Does it Add or Reduce Value of Your Property
In this post we discuss the reasonings as to why you Cavity Wall Insulation removal may be beneficial from your home, looking at the possible problems that some homeowners may face after they have had it fitted. What is Cavity Wall Insulation? Cavity Wall Insulation is the number one way of reducing heat loss from […]
6 Amazing Alternatives to Dodgy Cavity Wall Insulation.
A Brief Outline of Cavity Wall Insulation A Cavity is a gap or empty space, in this case its between two layers of a brick wall, the interior and exterior. Cavity Wall Insulation (CWI) is the process of filling this gap with cavity wall insulation materials such as, blown mineral fibre, Polystyrene beads / granules […]
Cavity Wall Insulation, Are All Homes Suitable for Installation?
What is Cavity Wall Insulation? Cavity Wall Insulation is the filling of the gap between the internal wall and external wall of your home with insulative material, usually a polystyrene or wool based filling. Houses built in the last 10 years will have been built with insulation, similar to the insulation in your attic, big […]
Cavity Wall Insulation The Positives and Negatives
What is Cavity Wall Insulation? Cavity Wall Insulation (CWI) is the process of filling the ‘gap’ or cavity between two layers of brickwork with an insulative material, sometimes a foam board or sometimes a material made up of beads is injected into the wall. The material used depends on whether the building was built with […]