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Trying to understand how and why my walls were built this way? Expert help needed!

  • 17-02-2014 10:38am
    #1
    Galego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭


    I’d like someone who understand to explain to me how my house walls have been built.

    Front house seems built with brick, 4” / 5” inch cavity, and 4” solid block. The rest of the walls seem to be built using solid block but at some point (like vents) there seems to be hollow blocks. Garage external is built with hollow blocks and also the attic.

    Questions:

    1 - Does the above sound like common in Ireland?
    2 - What is the point in using the cavity blocks in certain points?
    3 - Was it common in Ireland to leave the cavety (front cavity wall) empty? Any point now in pumping insulation in the camera (cavity walls) at the front? Or I should look into insulated boards?
    4 - Attic with cavity blocks common?


    Thanks very much for your replies.


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  • #2
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,451 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Camera? Predictive text???

    Getting the gist of your post...sounds like a common form of construction. It would be quite common to find cavity wall construction to the front elevation, where brick is present, and then dry-lined hollow block to the side(s) and rear.


  • #3
    Galego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭Galego


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Camera? Predictive text???

    Getting the gist of your post...sounds like a common form of construction. It would be quite common to find cavity wall construction to the front elevation, where brick is present, and then dry-lined hollow block to the side(s) and rear.

    Sorry typo there! Thanks.

    Sides and rear are solid blocks, I can only see hollow blocks in certain points (like vents) and then attic.

    Would there be any point to pump insulation in the cavity? As this appears to be empty.


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