Underfloor Insulation

Underfloor insulation is one of the most overlooked aspects of insulation.

Underfloor Insulation: A Solution for a Warmer, Draught-Free Home

Underfloor insulation is often overlooked, yet it is one of the most effective ways to enhance comfort and reduce energy wastage in older properties. Appropriate insulation addresses heat loss and prevents draughts that allow cold air to infiltrate your home, ensuring a consistently warm environment..

Benefits of Underfloor Insulation

Energy Savings: By stopping heat from escaping through the floor and blocking draughts, you reduce energy use and heating costs. Common sources of cold air include gaps under skirting boards, which allow cold air to rise and disrupt indoor comfort.

Enhances Comfort: It minimizes cold air infiltration, ensuring a consistently warm and comfortable living space throughout the year.

Reduces Environmental Impact: By requiring less energy for heating, underfloor insulation contributes to lowering your home's carbon footprint.

Promotes Temperature Stability: Insulation helps maintain even temperatures, reducing cold spots in winter and hot spots in summer.

Prevents Draughts: It blocks draughts and cold air from entering through floor gaps, reducing the need for excessive heating.

Improves Soundproofing: Insulated floors can help reduce noise transmission between rooms and floors, enhancing overall soundproofing.

Increases Property Value: Homes with efficient insulation systems are more appealing to buyers, offering long-term savings and comfort.

Comparing Spray Foam and Traditional Roll-Out Insulation

Spray foam insulation is an ideal solution for sealing gaps and voids, as it expands to fit irregular spaces, creating an airtight barrier. At a thickness of 2 inches, open-cell spray foam achieves air barrier status while remaining breathable.

This breathability allows materials to release moisture naturally, preventing issues like trapped moisture or sweating timbers. Additionally, the flexible nature of spray foam enables buildings to expand and contract naturally without compromising the insulation, ensuring long-term effectiveness and durability.

By simultaneously providing an airtight seal and maintaining breathability, spray foam insulation offers superior performance in preventing drafts and reducing energy loss, all while protecting the structural integrity of your property.

Traditional Roll-Out Insulation

Traditional roll-out insulation, commonly made from materials like wool or fiberglass, is a popular and cost-effective choice for underfloor insulation. These rolls are excellent at reducing heat transfer due to their high thermal resistance, trapping heat inside during the winter and keeping it out during the summer. Their dense structure effectively slows down the conduction of heat through floors and walls.

However, traditional insulation can allow some air movement through its fibrous composition, which may lead to minor draughts unless an additional air barrier is installed. Proper installation is critical to maximizing their effectiveness, as gaps or compression can reduce their insulating properties

  • High Energy Bills
  • Heat Loss
  • Mould or Damp
  • Noise Pollution
  • Condensation
  • Irregular Temperature

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Which Option is Best for Your Home?

Both options are effective solutions for reducing energy wastage and enhancing comfort. Your choice should depend on the specific requirements of your property, such as void depth, accessibility, and personal preferences. For tailored advice, contact us today!

Space Requirements for Installation

When considering traditional roll-out insulation, it's important to note that these materials require more physical space beneath the floorboards. Adequate void depth is necessary for proper placement, and additional room is needed for the installer to manoeuvre during application. If your floor void is restricted, spray foam insulation may be a more viable option, as it can be applied even in tighter spaces.

Spray Foam Insulation Videos

Insulation FAQ's

Due to the nature of HBS products, the foam, once applied, creates an air seal within a property, helping to prevent heat loss. This will reduce the amount of heat needed to fill the building, in turn saving money year after year.

As HBS helps to reduce heat loss from a property, much less energy is needed to help keep a comfortable temperature throughout, thereby reducing a property’s carbon footprint on the environment.

Air leakage can be responsible for up to half of a property’s energy loss. The air seal created by applying Icynene to the internal structure of a building means no gaps exist from which a draft can appear; this helps maintain a more consistent internal temperature, minimises heat loss and reduces waste, creating an efficient and comfortable living or working space.

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