Underfloor Insulation for Wooden Floors

Insulating Wooden Floors reduces draughts and raises the floor temperature a few degrees. Since we spend most of our time in contact with the floor, or sitting down near floor height, raising the temperature of the floors makes a huge difference to how warm we feel. Making the floor area warmer makes us feel more comfortable and results in reduced use of our heating. Whilst Loft Insulation prevents heat escaping at ceiling level, you still need to run your heating to warm the room up first. With warmer floors we don't need to spend as much heating our rooms.

In many cases there is crawl space under your wooden floors, and if there is over 400mm then we can likely insulate the floors from below. Most homes have access hatches for getting access to wires and pipes below the floor, and in most cases we can utilise this existing hatch. As can be seen in the photo above, once we complete the floor insulation we insulate the hatch as well. Typically we use 150mm Knauf Insulation, fixing it between the joists and supporting it in place with Teflon netting. There are other solutions as well, we always inspect jobs before quoting and will advise on any alternative solutions if there are any.

Sometimes homes have limited access to the space below the floor, preventing insulation being installed from below. In these cases it is more disruptive that working from the crawl space, we would need to lift the flooring. We don't need to insulate the entire home, often we are asked just to do a lounge or kitchen where it is a priority to make the room more comfortable. If you spend all your time in one room then insulating the floor of that room can be done on its own to great benefit.

If you are thinking of installing Underfloor Insulation, give our team a call and we can take a look at your property free of charge and give you advise and a written quote for any works we would recommend.