Government grants - insulation

[Tants]

I had a call from Nationwide Energy Services this morning telling me all about this kind of thing.

Agreed for the guy to come round as I've heard a bit about the grants. Anyone heard of them before or had any dealings with them?

 

[zebidee]

Anyone been getting cold callers recently about claiming 'your grant' for insulation?

 

[Neon Jay]

Tek - give me a shout when you get a few mins, I have a few suggestions which may help if you're looking at flooring in your attic, did a pretty reasonable job of the one in our old house.

With regards to raising the level of the floor, you can purchase what are essentially erupted which can be fitted onto existing ceiling joists, providing they're suitably thick enough to support weight on them; these can be adjusted to account for anything up to 600mm deep insulation. Hope this helps

 

[tek-monkey]

Cheers mate, will do. This thread is over a year old but I still aint done it!

 

[grumpystaffordguy]

Anyone been getting cold callers recently about claiming 'your grant' for insulation?

Yes. I sent the guy away as I couldn't be bothered. I assumed I wouldn't be eligible for any grants and I really couldn't be arsed with him rattling on for half an hour only for us to come to that conclusion in the end!

 

[Neon Jay]

Erupted should have read stilts, by the way, such as these:

http://www.diy.com/nav/build/insulation/loft-insulation/loft_storage_stilt/Diall-Loft-Storage-Stilts-12-Pack-11837507?&action=detail&un_jtt_redirect

Just shout me whenever fella, will pop for a brew n chat

 

[Rikki]

I thought you must have meant them. The only thing is I can't see them withstanding much horizontal force without the whole thing collapsing, unless the boarding is braced to stop them being able to move. Hope that makes sense

Being a DIY product I suspect a lot of installations won't take this into account, unless is says so in the instructions which might not be read.

 

[tek-monkey]

Well spleeny said the current struts are pretty much ****, its a lathe and plaster ceiling and the current wooden beams are pretty damn thin. I can walk on it, but I don't 100% trust it. Would be looking to lay another set at 90 degrees, insulate between then stick boarding down. Being skint though its not a massive priority, just got all my cabling supplies so thats my immediate project. Then ceiling fans, then loft floor.

 

[Rikki]

The beams in roofs are always fairly unsubstantial. Their not designed to take much weight, the main job is really stopping the roof from spreading. So if your wanting to make more use of it storage wise I'd reinforce with additional timbers like you say. It's just a case of actually getting them up there.

 

[Neon Jay]

I thought you must have meant them. The only thing is I can't see them withstanding much horizontal force without the whole thing collapsing, unless the boarding is braced to stop them being able to move. Hope that makes sense

Being a DIY product I suspect a lot of installations won't take this into account, unless is says so in the instructions which might not be read.

Quite. From what I've seen of them they're fairly substantial, and require top and bottom parts to be fixed to the respective timbers. Wouldn't be too much effort to put strut braces of some form at the edges.

With regards to getting them up there, how much room you got above / under your loft hatch Tek?