My mother has asked me about insulating their loft as she's noticed that the fuel bills are rising and the general cost of keeping the place warm is "going through the roof". It's an old solid walled place so there's little or nothing we can do wall insulation wise unless there is a major refurb.....which is not on the cards.
However, the roofspace is pretty clear. I haven't been up yet to get joist sizes to look at costs - but I reckon the house is about 8m deep by about 30m long - 240m^2 - erk. I think some of the roofspace already has insulation in it so this might cut it down by about 25ish pc - but it is still quite a job.
Anyone got any thoughts about easier ways to do this than rolls of glass wool stuff or similar. I'm tempted to ring up their leccy supplier (Powergen) and see if they have any offers to do this as quite frankly the amount of work just looks too much for me on my own before xmas - and I just know I'm going to find other things that "really - we should be doing" while I'm up there...
Anyone got any experience of the sort of costs of putting say 200mm insulation over that sort of area? Is stuff on a roll the best choice? Also - any tips on getting it from somewhere other than a "shed" to get the cost down a bit?
All advice gratefully received.
Best, dan.