StopGap Floorboard Draught Excluder - Brown

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I laid it across the floorboards and just overlapped it a bit then laid the underlay and then the carpet. Filling between gaps in floorboards is horrible work and especially thankless when it will be covered anyway! These specific flooring fillers have been specially designed to give a long-lasting finish and with a good range of colours so you can match it to the shade or stain of your floors.

My other idea was to get hold of some 3-5mm draught excluder foam strip and sticking it to the under side of the skirting board and then when the screws go back in they will pull it down tight and should fill the gaps. With so many products on the market, it is important to select one that will provide you with the best outcome for your specific requirements.

Very happy with results and room is so much warmer We have had problems with cold air blowing up between the gaps in the boards. Don’t be put off restoring an original wood floor by the prospect of cold rooms, high heating bills and constant draughts; with StopGap you can experience the joys of real wood floors with none of the downsides. for 1kg) for convenience, but powdered adhesive is even cheaper – with enough time and enough shredded newspapers you could plug every gap in the house for a few pounds.

It's a wooden floor, so maybe some air getting through where the floor joists are bricked into the cavity wall? Boiler flue - it's foamed in, and so is the extractor hob flue, and there is no draught from either of those, so nope, not them. Following all the advice so far, I can only conclude I must wrap myself in insulating rock-wool to stay warm, whilst waving a lighted joss stick around, and knock occasionally on tables to summon the undead (or just as effectively, knock on occasional tables! It resists vacuuming and has definitely made a difference on draught reduction and consequently ambient temperature.When I realised it was all down to the cold air coming from the gaps in the floorboards I thought finding an effective filler would be easy, but I was wrong. If you put some kind of squashy draught excluder on the skirting bottom edge, I can't see that being a problem. Manufactured from flexible V-shaped plastic that springs apart to fill gaps from 1-8mm, easily pushed into the gap using a debit card or similar tool, once in place the draught excluder is invisible.

It should be noted that even though carpet will help with draught-proofing, it is not 100% effective, and additional measures can still help. Letterbox draught excluder - These are fitted inside your letter box to prevent draughts whilst maintaining relatively easy access for your postie. So you might start off using the thin Draughtex (for gaps up to 3mm), then switch to standard (2-7mm) when the gap gets wider, then revert to thin again. The floorboard gaps are uneven so they can start as narrow and then widen and then narrow again but I managed to fit wall to wall without breaking the rope by stretching it where needed. Please note: StopGap is not suitable for tongue and groove boards due to the shape of the gaps in this type of flooring.

This involves lifting up the floorboards and applying insulation between the joists – details of how to do this can be found on our f floor insulation pages. English student living loans will once again rise by less than the rate of inflation, the Government has announced.