i understand theres some sort of grant or similar to get your house
insulated properly, i assume it's for the old people and maybe people on
benefits/low income (i'm on disability benefits)

we live in a rented dormer bungalow, up in the dormer bit there's a section
where access has been made into the old roof area via a normal door, inside
are bare floor joists, roof underside visable etc, theres the alarm main box
and the combi's flue in there.

in that area the insulation is deep, 200mm has been laid ontop of the
origional stuff between the joists, and there's a sheet of paper in a bag
pinned to a roof joist saying some company has upgraded the insulation to
200mm, i assume this would be one of these grant based things.

However, if you poke about anywhere else in the upstairs, theres hardly any
insulation at all, there's an access panel in the bit where the sloping
celing becomes too low to be usefull, so a wall has been put in, making a
storage space to the eves behind it.
in there there's 200mm insulation staple to the back sides of the
plasterboard wall, but on the floor which is open celing joists (the floor
joists for the dormer conversion stop at the wall for the storage space)
there's maybe 50mm if your lucky of ancient compressed insulation between
the joists, that once yellow/green stuff thats now grey through age which
looks origional from when the place was built in 1947.

up in the loft area, there is insulation up there but only to joist height,
but where the stair well is, there is no celing, i.e. the joists are open
and you can see down into the back side of the stair sloping celing, there's
absolutily no in sulation there at all,

likewise there's a bit from the dormer room where a built in wardrobe has
been put in, there's no celing joists at all there, and no insulation, the
back of the wardrobe is where the access door to the flue is on the other
side, and the plasterboard walls there are uninsulated.

So all our heat is going up the stairs, through the uninsulated stair celing
and thru the living room celing into the uninsulated roof area.

anyone know what the procedure is if this place has already had a grant
thing issued for insulation topping up?? as the job has deffo not been done
propelry, they just took the easy route and insulated the bit that could be
seen.
or what else i could do to try and get this place insulated properly, the
managment company arent that interested, took them 3 months to get someone
out to fix the boiler.

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:33:56 +0100, "gazz" wrote:

i understand theres some sort of grant or similar to get your house
insulated properly, i assume it's for the old people and maybe people on
benefits/low income (i'm on disability benefits)


I used these people: http://www.markgroup.co.uk/ and paid a subsidised
rate because I am not on benefits or over 70 but they do the free
installs as well.