room ventilation

drorrie

Hi

I understand the need for room ventilation but I live in the windiest place on earth and the front of our house (where the 2 living rooms have their vents) gets blasted daily. As such we used to keep them blocked as those silly plastic things you can close or open do nothing against an Atlantic gale. However we have now put multi fuel stoves in each room and have unblocked the damned things. This means we have toasty heat from our stoves with terrible drafts blowing around us. I can't believe there isn't a better way to do this. Our windows have vents at the top of them too. Even on a calm day the whole stupid plastic thing rattles with any breeze and it's going to drive me insane. Sudden gusts of wind outside make doors slam shut inside as though we had left the front and back doors open. The house was built in 99-2001 and was in line with recommendations at that time.

Someone please help. All advice welcomed and will be passed into my darling husband who thinks this is our only option.

MicktheMan

As you describe the house, it appears there are other issues besides over ventilation.
Window trickle and hole in the wall ventilation are the minimum requirements in the b regs. There are better and probably more appropriate (for you) types available.
However, you may also have significant air tight issues (slamming doors during gusts) which need addressing too.

If you want to have definitive proof/advice then I advise a full heat loss survey of the house which would include a ventilation survey.

drorrie

Thanks. I suspect there is something that needs changed. How do I go about getting a heat loss survey? Who does that? I think the windier than normal weather is making things worse but still something isn't right.

MicktheMan

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