Air Bricks And Concrete Floors
Your property should have either a solid usually concrete or a timber floor.
Air bricks and concrete floors. The standard sizes are. This construction is similar to the timber floor above but uses either pre cast concrete planks or small pre cast concrete beams with concrete blocks laid between the beams. In simple terms an air brick is simply a brick with holes in it. Just wondering about air bricks.
Brick flooring installation. 215mm x 65mm x 50mm. Would it cause any issues if the one airbrick was covered by the. If the concrete floors were put in after the original build.
Brick flooring is very heavy but it can also be installed on wood subfloors if you make sure the flooring system framing is sturdy enough to hold the weight. In this situation the air bricks can either be blocked or replaced with regular bricks. Replace concrete air brick with plastic air vent bathroom by darrent thu sep 06 2007 8 36 am last post by darrent thu sep 06 2007 8 36 am. Air bricks are then placed in the new wall.
As all around the house on the external walls there is air bricks. If the suspended timber floor has been removed and replaced with a solid concrete floor the void will also be filled in with concrete so there s nothing to ventilate. If the floor is wood timber there should be a void large space between the floor and the ground below. Hi if your house was built in the 1900 it would almost definately be solid brick 9 inch thick walls and not a cavity wall construction there fore you don t need air bricks unless it was a block and concrete beam construction which would be very unlikely.
They can normally span greater distances than timber joists. Like other forms of tile brick pavers are adhered to a subfloor usually a concrete slab using thin set adhesive. Telescopic air vent lifting the level of air intake and allowing ventilation below a suspended wooden floor. You will want to know what size of air bricks to to fit and what models are available when you choose your air brick.
I don t think it is a suspended floor as the ground floors seem to be solid concrete so i presume these must be for the cavity walls as the house is only 6 years old.