Draught from floor....

[Secret Visage]

Put a proper groundsheet down and zip the tent up properly.

 

[The Onion Bag]

Rope, hammer it between the floorboards. Bosh, insulated.

 

[citybythesea]

My living room has been baltic ever since we removed the laminate flooring and replaced it with carpet....

The draught comes from under the floorboards, there is a gap of around 50cm below the floor boards to the ground below....

We have a decent underlay, but that doesn't help...

Any ideas on how to stop the draught, is it as simple as laying some type of board over the floor boards?

On the same note, how easy would it be to re-lay the carpet, or would it be best to get a bloke in?

 

[Wearside Wanderer II]

Has anyone told him to ask his husband yet?

 

[Wilfy]

Free beer? Don’t see what the OP is complaining about.

 

[Mr.Thunders]

Get a priest or witch doctor in.House is clearly haunted

 

[bernardbresslaw]

My living room has been baltic ever since we removed the laminate flooring and replaced it with carpet....

The draught comes from under the floorboards, there is a gap of around 50cm below the floor boards to the ground below....

We have a decent underlay, but that doesn't help...

Any ideas on how to stop the draught, is it as simple as laying some type of board over the floor boards?

On the same note, how easy would it be to re-lay the carpet, or would it be best to get a bloke in?

Get someone to move in downstairs and ask them to turn their heating up.
I do realise this will be more difficult if you have a downstairs flat.

 

[Kevj]

Get someone to move in downstairs and ask them to turn their heating up.
I do realise this will be more difficult if you have a downstairs flat.

Excavate a basement then install a hydroponics system to grow weed. Fix the cold draught problem and gain an income.
If we are going down the implausible route.

 

[Clean Bristow]

Show Brexit is good by outdoing the Europeans. Lock up and impregnate TWO daughters. Up yours Fritzl.

 

[jaxaxe]

Cheers, think i get it, attach the netting to the bottom of the joists, then lay the insulation on the netting....

You wouldn't get any of this sound advice on Toontastic or True Faith, would you ?

 

[Boris Bear]

Squirt plenty of expanding foam on it

 

[Shandy drinker]

One of the best things about ripping up old carpet and floorboards is reading pages from the Echo circa 1975.

Same news as latest internet version of the echo

 

[Sam Handwich]

I got no reply, think everyone was at work

As if.

 

[DisillusionedOldGit]

Squirt plenty of expanding foam on it

Fill the cavity with expanding furm .

 

[mickb2112]

Use your leaf blower to blow the drafts away.

 

[PTR]

That's the one.
But basically, under the floor, between the joists - its a very good idea to put insulation there.

 

[rokerexile]

If you lived in London you could rent out the space under the floorboards as a basement apartment. The rent from the tenants would easily cover new insulation.

And they would generate heat.

 

[PTR]

If you lived in London you could rent out the space under the floorboards as a basement apartment. The rent from the tenants would easily cover new insulation.

I bet the Wattingers would be up for that. Must be a nightmare living next to the Pontypines.

 

[Crook Mackem]

in my old house i fettled it by buying a few lengths of pipe insulation then cutting it into strips and plugged it in the bigger floorboard gaps. probably not the best solution but it was effective

 

[PTR]

in my old house i fettled it by buying a few lengths of pipe insulation then cutting it into strips and plugged it in the bigger floorboard gaps. probably not the best solution but it was effective

Yep, draught exclusion is priority, don't let the cold air physically into the room.
After that, you want to prevent the solid floor from being in thermal-contact with the cold air, that's the job of insulation.