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Insulating under the floorboards on the ground floor of your home could save you around £40 a year from your heating bills.
At the same time as installing under floor insulation, the installer will seal the gaps between the floors and the skirting boards to reduce draughts.
However, many newer homes have concrete ground floors so we cannot do under floor insulation there.
The ground floor of your home MUST have suspended wooden floors. The easiest way to check is to turn back the carpet in a corner of a GROUND FLOOR room to see whether the floor is concrete or wood. It could be wooden floor boards or wooden sheets.
Another way of checking, is by looking at the external brickwork of your home. If you have air bricks below the damp proof membrane at ground level, your home will have suspended wooden floors. This is because the air bricks allow ventilation below your ground floor, something not possible with concrete floors.
You or someone in your house must be recieving one of the qualified benefits from the following