If your home was built after the 1930s, the chances are that its external walls are made of two ‘skins’ with a gap of around 50mm between them. This means they are ‘cavity walls’ and the gap between ...
Damp wall inside Kenneth Bowen's house in Hawthorn, Pontypridd When Kenneth Bowen had cavity wall insulation fitted at his house in Rhondda Cynon Taff, he thought it would make his home warmer.
A wall with inner and outer masonry layers (eg block or brick), with a cavity in between. The cavity serves as a way to drain water out of the wall. Cavities can be insulated to improve their ability ...
The accuracy of the method is also verified by comparison of measured and calculated values of the current and charge on cavity walls. The tools developed are used to investigate the salient features ...
In the first part of the paper, assuming an infinite granular medium, we show that for any prescribed time-dependent pressure applied at the cavity wall, an exact stress profile may be determined, ...
The Government has banned 39 solid wall insulation specialists from installing new insulation in people’s homes because of poor-quality work. Routine checks carried out by quality watchdog TrustMark ...