Cheap loft insulation

councilworker1

Residents of Suffolk Coastal District Council can benefit from discounted schemes and grants for insulation works to their homes. Quotes can be obtained via Eastern Carbon Reduction Initiative (CRi) on 0800 232 1677 or visit their website www. easterncri. org
Further information about council initiatives can be found at the Suffolk Coastal website, look out for the "cold home?" button or call 01394 444506.

findaway

Does LB Barnet offer financial support to help insulate privately owned homes in their Borough?

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CharlieBilly

DED2109 3 posts all same and you had 2 psst removed before now

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sun_claw

The B&Q offer is only available in store and is not being advertised on the website. I actually called Stevenage B&Q yesterday before driving over and was informed the roles were deleivered to all branches yesterday. I then went over yesterday evening, but the offer is so new it wasn't on the shop floor yet!

If you ring the store before setting out to check they have the roles in stock, then ask at the customer service desk if the roles are not already out, and they are more than happy to bring the required roles out for you.

The 3 rolls for £5 is slightly incorrect - B&Q are selling a strip of "3" rolls as one long roll, which you can then cut down to any size. The 3 comes from the black cut lines on the plastic wrapping, but cutting is down to you as the buyer

Antispam

Fred56 wrote: »

Can't seem to find the B&Q offer. Is it only advertised in-store?

B&Q Offer



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Kate_Gunner

Where: all areas
What: Loft Insulation and other energy saving installations
How: 0800 512 012 or visit energysavingtrust.org.uk/grants

Contact your local Energy Saving Trust advice centre free on 0800 512 012 to find out what grants and offers are available in your area.

Most of the grants and offers you can benefit from are provided by three main groups; Local Authorities, Energy Suppliers and the Government. Your Local Energy Saving Trust advice centre will have details on what grants and offers are available and will also give you free and impartial advice on how to save energy.

Green_Karen

Any privately owned homes with less than building regs standard insulation in Haslingden, Bacup and Stacksteads (that have been part of the Housing Market Renewal Program) will receive insulation FREE by contacting a surveyor on 0845 450 3676.

The free offer is available to anyone regardless of age or being in receipt of benefit. The surveyor assesses whether you are eligible ie. if your house meets building reg standards or not.

This is a pilot scheme and the leaflet says it will be offered to homes as they become eligible.

drfella

Wolverhampton City Council

What discounts are available?

Loft insulation and cavity wall insulation can be installed for £99 (per measure) (Example price quoted is for a 3 bedroom semi- detached house with wall area to be insulated not exceeding 100m2 and/or the loft area to be insulated not exceeding 55m2).

This offer is subject to a free no obligation survey and prices depend on the wall and/or the loft area to be insulated. In all cases the installer will provide you with a firm price for the work. Over 70's completely free.

I wasn't able to post a link due to strange rules on this website, classing me as new user even though I've been using this site almost since it started. So visit Wolves council website and just use the search facility and put in "insulation" you'll find it.

Barmy Army

noncom_2

Could someone please correct the information in the Article at the top of this thread?

The Homebase spaceblanket is a 5.3m roll of 37cm width, so a coverage of 1.97 sq metres (according to their website). It is not 5.3 sq metres as the article says.

I don't know if a similar mistake has been made with the B&Q offer, as there's no link, but it makes quite a difference when calculating how many rolls you might want to buy!

Andy

Mary_Hartnell

malc_b wrote: »

Can I point there is a lot of misinformation of the subject of insulation. The usual trick is to compare a totally uninsulated house with one done to modern standards and then say you could save 100s. This is like comparing the horse with BMW and saying you could go that much faster. Most people don't have no roof insulation and they don't get to work on horse either. A fairer comparison would be ford to BWM.

What you need to do is check out the U values and work out the roof area if want an accurate figure. For example no insulation pitched roof is 2 W/m^2/K. What that means is for every square metre you lose 2W for each degree C difference to the outside. So 20C inside, -1C outside that is 21C difference, 42W lost. Adding insulation reduces the U value to 0.55 (50mm), 0.35 (100mm), 0.25 (150mm). So 0 to 150 is almost 10:1 reduction, but 50 to 150 is only 2:1 and 100 to 150 is just 1.4:1. The savings are small if you have any roof insulation at all and tiny when you have a a decent level of insulation.

I've run the numbers for the heatloss of my house a 5 bed detached, 1980s with cavity wall insulation fitted, uPVC double glazing and some modern extensions. Calculated heatloss is 7505W with 50mm insulation in the older parts, 100mm and 150mm in the extensions (32/5/19m^2 respectively of the roof). Increasing the 50mm areas to 100mm reduces this to 7290W and going to 150mm reduces it to 7204W. Those are savings of 2.9% and 4.0%. My annual heating and hot water bill is ~500 (depending on the price of oil) so these are saving of at best £14.50 and £20. Hardly 100s is it?

Can anyone recommend a web site that specialises in doing these calculations.
That is you feed in the type of construction you have and it works out the "U" value and then asks for dimensions and so then works out the heat losses for the whole house: floor, roof and walls.
Or at least gives the values and gives the conversion factors for different methods of measuring - kilo watt hour = x btu = y gas therms.

Ideally it would allow us to play "What if....?" games to see the change when we added an extra 150 mm of loft insulation, filled the cavities, built porches over doors etc. etc.

(I found a book that offered such calculations BUT it was intended for the North American market and everything was measured in old fashioned units such as pounds and feet so useless for making decisions in Europe)