Attic Room Insulation Question

[Thingfish]

Hi Folks

In the top of our house we have some rooms that I guess could be called attic rooms. They have sloping ceilings about 8 inches below the exterior roof tiles. I have no idea whether or how well insulated this roof area is or even how well insulated it can be. It is, I guess, at least potentially, loosing me loads of money in heating bills for roof birds.

Question is, how do I figure out what (if any) insulation is already in place there and what is the best way to go about insulating these areas.

I figure dropping the ceiling merely to find out what’s there is (hopefully) over the top.

Any Suggestions or advice?

Thanks
Mark

[eljaybee]

With some roof you can get into the area down by the eaves and then it's a case of getting your hand if you can into the space of the sloping area. The only other way is a Surveyor with an endoscope (you know the long thin cameras similar to those the hospital stick down peoples throats). Otherwise then it's creating a hole in the boarding to look through.

[InsulationBloke]

you could line it with a insulated plasterboard, save you ripping it down and would only add to any insulation behind the board.

The equipment needed to see behind is a boroScope, as Usedto be an Insulation inspector.

Cheers

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