Thermal Heat Surveys!

grizzly1911

brand68 wrote: »

Thanks everyone for all your comments but your thoughts Brian got me thinking. I had already done some of the things you suggested the main one being putting roof insulation between the joists under the bedroom floor and this got me thinking it might be having an adverse effect so I have removed some of it and will have to wait and see now. One thing that worries me is some of the comments about damp, I have been a bit over zealos in my efforts to insulate and I may have to ventilate a bit more.
I have put more roof insulation in the flat roof space where there was insufficient insulation but I am wondering if I have compacted it to much. I even put ceiling tiles on the bedroom ceiling to double the insulation there, so you see I have tried allsorts and getting nowhere and that is why I asked about having a thermal survey done. Has anyone had or heard of anyone having one done? and what cost?

Eon Asked me to do a an online questionnaire for them a to whether a service which included a thermal survey would be of interest to their customers. They suggested £100 but that was to gain a reaction.

You mention ceiling tiles - what type?

Also insulating your house really well can make it cooler in the summer as all the heat can't get in.

brand68

I used polystyrene tiles on the ceiling not recommended i know but you have to try everything and anything. I take your point about too much insulation but we haven't had any heat to keep out yet have we. I think the root problem is the wind, we notice the cold whenever it is windy outside, so somewhere along the way this is what is taking the heat out of the house.

grizzly1911

brand68 wrote: »

I used polystyrene tiles on the ceiling not recommended i know but you have to try everything and anything. I take your point about too much insulation but we haven't had any heat to keep out yet have we. I think the root problem is the wind, we notice the cold whenever it is windy outside, so somewhere along the way this is what is taking the heat out of the house.

Drafts or damp.

grizzly1911

brand68 wrote: »

I used polystyrene tiles on the ceiling not recommended i know but you have to try everything and anything. I take your point about too much insulation but we haven't had any heat to keep out yet have we. I think the root problem is the wind, we notice the cold whenever it is windy outside, so somewhere along the way this is what is taking the heat out of the house.

Polystyrene takes me back.

I am surprised they still sell them. My mum has had them in the kitchen since the sixties. Whilst there is are risk as long as you make sure you don't have "hot" light fittings or an open flame close by I am sure they are OK.

Mum doesn't do chips anymore (in the pan on the stove when I were a lad:eek:).