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Specialist Cavity Wall Insulation
Cavity wall insulation can be a great way to help your home retain more heat, keeping your heating bills lower through carefully constructed cavity insulation.
At Pro Cavity Wall Insulation, we offer a range of insulation options for all kinds of cavity walls, filling that cavity space with some useful and effective insulation material.
We at Pro Cavity Wall Insulation are a team of insulating experts with a core focus on getting cavity wall insulation installed quickly and easily. Our team is made up of various cavity wall insulation specialists with a keen eye for getting insulating material installed in the right place at the right time.
As a business, we work closely with our clients to deliver a perfect insulation installation every time. We can find the right material suitable for cavity wall insulation within your home, pick out the best ways to install that cavity wall insulation, and even offer other benefits like damp prevention if needed.
We can provide all of the top cavity wall insulation material options on the market as of September 2024, along with the skills needed to install that insulating material perfectly. We take each set of cavity walls as a bespoke project, delivering results that suit each client’s specific cavity wall insulation needs.
Our team have committed to both short one-off projects and large-scale cavity wall insulation overhauls alike, using the best professional practice possible to ensure that our insulation installation work turns out as good as possible every single time.
We are a registered installer under the National Insulation Association, Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency, and British Board of Agreement. We keep ourselves up-to-date on new insulating-related information and material details from sources like the Energy Saving Trust.
With over ten years of experience working with cavity wall insulation projects, our team know how to find the best materials suitable for cavity wall insulation for each client. Our experience has also allowed us to build solid connections with important suppliers and contractors in the field.
We work hard to get the best cavity wall insulation installed in each client’s home, aiming for the best possible options in situations where external or internal solid wall insulation is not a viable option.
Filling cavity walls with insulation material can cost a varied amount depending on the exact situation. This means that we often have to give clients a price quote based on their exact needs rather than having a set price that we can point towards.
Some factors that may influence cost can include some of the following criteria:
Our team is always happy to discuss the price of our services based on your needs, so do not hesitate to get in touch if you want to know about the potential costs of getting your cavity walls insulated.
Cavity walling insulation can offer a range of benefits to your home, some of which may be more obvious than others. Insulating cavity walls allows them to retain heat well and become a proper part of your home’s insulation, which can be invaluable for a number of different reasons:
Insulated cavity walls can keep your home warm more effectively. This solves the problem of an external wall, often being an exposed site that can lose a lot of heat since the “outside wall” has no real insulation stopping it from leaking heat.
This is especially true of older houses built before the 1990s since these often lack insulation entirely. Even if they have been insulated since, cavity walls often go overlooked at first, making them a common cause for external walls leaking more heat than they should be.
Cavity wall insulation is a lot faster than other insulation installation types. This fast installation process means that it is easy to get the gap between the two walls filled with a suitable material, even if you have a tight schedule and can only let contractors into your house on specific days.
Unlike trying to insulate solid walls or installing something like loft insulation, cavity walls are very easy to insulate. This means less time taken to insulate the outside walls, meaning that you see reduced energy bills faster and are not caught up in a long installation process that wastes your time.
Cavity wall insulation can be relatively cheap, even if it can’t really be installed on your own. While many people may try to insulate external walls using DIY methods, cavity wall insulation is overall fairly cheap and quickly pays for itself through the heating bills you save money on.
This is also far less costly than trying to replace cavity walls with solid walls or taking other measures that would directly alter your external walls. Simply insulating the gap provides a lot more insulation that stops external walls from leaking warmth so fast.
A properly insulated home means lower bills since all the heat loss becomes much less of a concern, and there is not an obvious place for it to “leak” out during colder weather. This means that it costs less to warm up your house, allowing you to spend much less on house heating due to the reduced heat loss.
As you might expect, less heat lost means lower costs overall. By using insulating materials, you can mitigate heat loss by filling in the gaps between the two walls – a change that you will barely notice within the house but definitely notice on your monthly bills.
Cavity wall insulation means that you are heating your home more efficiently, meaning less energy wasted. Lower energy bills and reduced energy usage mean that you are not drawing more energy than needed to warm up your home, which means that you are not using as much energy overall.
This contributes to lower carbon emissions, at least slightly. While one house may not see enough of a change in energy usage for this to make much difference, a whole block getting their cavity walls insulated can massively reduce the energy that they consume, meaning less overall pollution.
Cavity wall insulation is a popular choice for boosting energy efficiency alongside options like loft insulation. This helps make your outer wall much better at retaining warmth, especially compared to bare brickwork or other types of non-insulated cavity walls.
Not all homes are suitable for cavity wall insulation. Knowing if you have a home suitable for this insulation depends on several factors, such as whether or not the brickwork is in good condition and the walls themselves are not exposed to driving rain.
Contact us if you want advice on how to tell if your outside walls are right for this kind of installation.
The average cost of insulation for cavity walls per square meter tends to be around £21-£22 overall. Of course, this varies based on a lot of factors, especially when you take the cost of the installation service itself into account (including fuel prices for deliveries, etc).
The UK Government can provide funding for energy-saving measures under plans like the ECO4 scheme. Be sure to look into the exact schemes running right now that offer these free benefits – they may change over time, and new ones may be brought in to replace old schemes.
There are also benefits to homes under certain council tax bands and other circumstances that may allow you to claim extra help towards funding these insulation projects.
The current Great British Insulation Scheme runs until March 2026, providing extra funding to households that want proper house insulation. This often includes having cavity walls filled on your property.
We can break down the current government schemes that may apply to your proposed project and help you secure the extra funding that you need to get the insulation you are looking for.
There are various ways to check where cavity walls are, such as the brick pattern they use, as well as whether or not they are ready for insulation. As a registered installer, we can take care of this inspection to make sure that your property is prepared for the installation.
A borescope inspection is the most direct way, using a small hole to see whether the walls are hollow or filled. These same holes can also be used to check on existing insulation materials if that part of your house has any.
Every property is different, but a house with cavity walls can almost always get them insulated. It is just that the house itself may need some extra work done if these walls are damaged, weak, or otherwise unsuitable on their own.
The Energy Saving Trust and National Housing Model have proven that this kind of insulation really helps with saving money, even if not all the heating is properly trapped. The reduced energy usage and better heating retention ensure lower heating bills for your property overall.
The more heating a gas-heated home can retain, the less gas they are using. This means lower costs and a better EPC rating (efficiency rating), as well as reduced emissions.
Most cavity insulation is either mineral wool, polystyrene beads or polyurethane foam.
Polyurethane foam is chemical-resistant, whereas polystyrene beads are better for managing water vapour. Polystyrene beads are also great at avoiding moisture damage since the polystyrene beads themselves are not sensitive to moisture.
However, mineral wool is elastic, whereas polystyrene beads and panels are more solid. This can make mineral wool better for dealing with non-flat spaces and allows most mineral wool insulation to fit into spaces like bay windows or smooth circular corners.
Most cavity insulation requires small holes near the base of the mortar joint between individual bricks in the brick pattern. These holes vary based on how the insulation is installed, though, and each property may require slightly different techniques and placements for creating the holes.
Like any A&D (architecture and design) change to your property, the specific A&D requirements vary to suit each home. This means that the placement of the hole and the focus of the drilling work will vary based on the actual A&D details of how your home is laid out.
Whether you are dealing with damp patches or just want to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs, insulating cavity walls can be a fantastic option for keeping your home heated.
If you want to know more about what we can offer or how this insulation can help, then contact us and talk to your experts today. We are always ready to help another client get their home properly insulated and energy-efficient.
Make sure you contact us today for a number of great cavity wall insulation services in London.
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