external wall insulation

Living room has a 3m long freezing cold external wall, brick with zero insulation. It’s free of windows, doors, and power outlets, a completely blank wall except massive new split system installed up high. I don’t want to move the slit system. I’m thinking about building a half-height “wall”...

Despite cavity wall insulation filled my walls are socking cold as if no insulation in between also have insulated my suspended floors but still my floors and walls are too cold and quite damaging in terms of heating bills. Please any expert tell me what if I do the external wall insulation is...

Hello, I hope that despite this project being in Portugal and not the UK it is still allowed on this forum! I own a two storey house in northern Portugal, in need of renovation, this summer I plan on installing external wall insulation. Typical houses here (like mine) have granite stone walls...

Evening All I am researching external wall insulation and have learned so much from the posts so thank you to all who have contributed. I have an 1800 cottage which has been extended in the 1980's. Externally the cottage is painted white directly onto brick (no render) which is flaking off in...

Hi, Just looking for some advice as to which thickness of insulation would be best for external walls. Not to sure of the U values required but the house was built in the 1930's & as such has no cavity. I was looking at 100mm, but perhaps that is to extreme. Thanks in advance for any advice. Jass

Hi, We live in a semi detached house built in 1949 which has a double storey side extension that was built in 1996 to add a garage and additional reception room on the ground floor, and a bedroom and bathroom upstairs. The bedroom and bathroom are above the garage, however the reception room is...

Hi all, I currently have a brick - cavity - block external wall construction in the ground floor going up into a single block wall for the first floor. I intent to apply external wall insulation in both floors eventually to eliminate thermal bridges and improve overall performance. I have some...

I have recently suffered a number of disasters with using professional builders. One builder constructed a garage base too big, even though I gave home plans down to the nearest millimetre. For the EWI one company went bust taking my deposit of £1500 with them. A second EWI company promised to...