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Howard in reply to @JWestland

Just blowing insulation in a the wall here without informing building standards it a bit of a no-no, you can just do that in Canada?

Houses typically aren't of (mostly) brick construction. Much more like US stuff, timber frames sitting on top of a brick / concrete basement, lots of drywall etc. When you do external wall insulation it's (I'm mostly guessing here mind) like sticking stuff in a partition wall in the UK; if you want to take the insulation out, you can, by pulling the drywall down and taking it out.

Or you just knock the house down and start again.

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JWestland in reply to @Howard

Ah, gotcha.

Yeah that makes it a lot easier. We need repointing, Stormdry cream and finding an installer that would say "no" if they think it's a risk.

"knock the house down and start again" or insulation on the outside with ventilation with heat recapture (or you get all the mould) but that's 10-15K for our 1952 semi. cough

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hugo7 in reply to @JWestland

but that's 10-15K for our 1952 semi.

In the UK? In the south east?

Is it me or does that sound insanily cheap for wrapping a house in insulation and adding heat recapture? I mean you struggle to get a bathroom for half of that.

Curious to hear any more about this.

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