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Energy crisis & closing the thermal gap in domestic homes
Most homes in the U.K. were reinsulated during the government backed grant schemes in the early 2000's. This was often done from the loft hatch and installers topped up the insulation in the loft to a total of 275mm depth or 11 inches.
The building regs have since changed again, and on the 15th June 2022 this has been upgraded to a total depth required of 400mm or 16 inches.
The problem is that all of these upgrades in insulation have often failed to close the thermal gap between the cavity wall insulation and the loft insulation. This creates a gap often between 300mm - 600mm wide. This gap is at the eave and was caused due to the installers of the loft insulation unable to gain proper access due to low roof height.
Findley's can offer a full eave refurbishment, removing the eave tiles, topping up this missing insulation, installing cavity vent trays and then replacing the old tiles. Closing this thermal gap could reduce your energy bills drastically as illustrated in the following images.
Heat escaping
Heat escaping
Top up your insulation
to fill the thermal gap
Full eave refurbishment, top up insulation, closing the thermal gap and install ventilated eave tray to prevent condensation.
Thermal gap
Loft insulation