Anyone used Miller Pattison

Gizmosmum_2

ruatua wrote: »

Although it is not well advertised M&S offer Free insulation if you are over 70 or on benefit. the number is hard to find but i picked up a leaflet in store 0800 0 106106.

The vast majority of installers offer free insualtion for over 70's. Got to have less than 60mm of loft and no cavity wall insulation.

Gizmosmum_2

sam1970 wrote: »

I have just with Miller Pattison for cavity wall insulation for £149.99 which i think is a very good price. my question is ..i know that they use Rock wool but how does that compare to the new microbeads used by some companies? a company using microbeads quoted me £420 to do the same house!!! is it worthed?

Check with your local authority before you go ahead, many are providing really good discounts. Beads aren't any different to mineral wool it's just that not very any installers have the machines to install poly beads and the ones that are, are trying to get their cash back for the cost of the machines. If the prices were similar I'd go for poly bead because it looks a bit better (about a third less holes) but otherwise I'd stick with the mineral wool.

isy1011

Yes they did our cavity wall insulation. We paid £99 and they claimed the rest of the council. They were good.

Marty999

I have just agreed for Miller Pattison to treat out house with cavity wall insulation. We have a 3 bed mid terrace and they quoted £99 to treat the front and back, but I also have to pay an extra £90 for them to erect a special platform over our conservatory at the back as it takes up virtually the full width of the house. Sounds like a fair deal to me, and several friends have told me it's worth having done.

rayaans

Yes, I have used them. I recently bought a fire damaged victorian mansion with 5 bedrooms and decided to put insulation in. Miller Pattison came and put the insulation in but it was not enough for the house so I had to put more in anyway. Around £10000 pounds worth of insulation went into the house on top of what Miller Pattison put in. However, it was free of cost and I think they couldnt fill the whole house because they have a cap on the amount of insulation they are supposed to put in one house.

serious_saver

Just over a year ago I saw a feature on a BBC Wales consumer programme called X-ray. Millar Pattison was one of a few companies that were putting cavity wall insulation in houses that were completely unsuitable. They weren't doing proper surveys and it resulted in serious damp. I remember it clearly because my parents started getting damp after they had cavity wall insulation put in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/x-ray/sites/allarticles/updates/10p23_insulation.shtml

Bob_B_Surrey

I contacted Eon my energy supplier and a couple of weeks later I got a call from Miller Pattison. The surveyor didn't come on the first two occasions but at least called. The third time he came but was early and I wasn't there so my wife had to deal with them. She described them as cowboys! I then searched on Google for them and found this thread where the company appeared a bit hit and miss. I decided to go ahead with the cavity wall insulation and made sure I was at home for the day. Two different guys turned up and were fantastic, very professional and knowledgeable. They apologised for the previous surveyor. If the work had not been subsidised I probably would not have gone ahead with the company but these restored my faith.

Marty999

Having booked my cavity wall insulation for next Tuesday, I have just cancelled it upon the advice of my local replacement window company. We will be needing new windows in the next year or so and apparently it is a right pain to remove old windows if the cavities are filled with the silicone bead type of insulation, such as used by Miller Pattison. It's a bit of a shame but I couldn't face the mess, and then end up paying for more insulation again, having lost most of it due to the old windows coming out.

Gizmosmum_2

Marty999 wrote: »

Having booked my cavity wall insulation for next Tuesday, I have just cancelled it upon the advice of my local replacement window company. We will be needing new windows in the next year or so and apparently it is a right pain to remove old windows if the cavities are filled with the silicone bead type of insulation, such as used by Miller Pattison. It's a bit of a shame but I couldn't face the mess, and then end up paying for more insulation again, having lost most of it due to the old windows coming out.

Marty - the poly bead is sealed with a glue so there's no movement when you replace windows. Millers like the vast majority of other firms use mineral wool as their major insulation material so you have 2 options - polybead or mineral wool neither of which would cause a problem if the windows are fitted properly. I've just changed mine and didn't have any problems at all. I think the window firm might be thinking about the installs from many years ago when they didn't use adhesive and all of the beads used to empty out of the cavity before your eyes.

Marty999

Gizmosmum wrote: »

Marty - the poly bead is sealed with a glue so there's no movement when you replace windows. Millers like the vast majority of other firms use mineral wool as their major insulation material so you have 2 options - polybead or mineral wool neither of which would cause a problem if the windows are fitted properly. I've just changed mine and didn't have any problems at all. I think the window firm might be thinking about the installs from many years ago when they didn't use adhesive and all of the beads used to empty out of the cavity before your eyes.

Thanks for your input, but Miller Pattison themselves agreed, saying it would be est to get the windows replaced first.