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No air bricks at rear of property

Anonymous user 15/03/2024 - 2.37 PM

Hi, I'm trying to think of a way around this problem. I have a 1905 end of terrace house with a suspended timber floor through the front and sitting rooms as well as the hallway. The kitchen I believe is a quarry stone floor with a solid floor utility room extension to the back. During the survey it came to our attention the lack of sub-floor ventilation. We have 2 air bricks at the front of the house one under a bay window and the other roughly 1.5m away just to the side of the front door. There are no air bricks or ducting to the rear or sides of the property. Im trying to find out how i can increase the ventilation as there is no space to the rear for air bricks to be installed (there is a door from the sitting room leading to the garden which i suspect is where a window used to be and there is no room beneath this for an air brick). I understand I would need cross flow ventilation but how can I achieve this as i'm guessing just adding air bricks to the side of the property isn't going to generate the cross flow required. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, There are slight signs of discolouration at the bottom of the bay window due to possible rising damp but our chartered surveyor said it was nothing to worry about and slight signs like that can be expected with a property of this age