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Yeah, it's an absolute headache. Maybe a thin base layer of normal wool like insulation? (the sort of material present in the rest of the loft). Try to work some foil in there?... Makes me want to go around knocking on neighbours doors and ask how they dealt with it. Oh wait, social distancing :D.

This is what I am thinking of doing. Might need to wait for this virus mess to be over with, can't seem to find much online right now that isn't 100mm thick, which I think might be a bit too much and not leave enough of a gap.

Would something like this do the trick? https://www.wickes.co.uk/Knauf-Insulation-Earthwool-Dritherm-Cavity-Slab-37-Standard-100mm/p/113735 Hard to find anything in these plagueish days.

Thanks for the feedback! Is that slab material easy to cut in? I assume it's a bit more solid than the typical "role" material? What is your view on this sort of solution? https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/insulate-sloping-ceiling-from-loft.491007/

This is sadly impossible for me at this point, especially with everyone locked in the house, bathroom needs to be up and running! I did manage to access the area in the loft and found no insulation in this corner where the shower sits! I've moved the discussion to the appropriate forum, maybe...

Better picture attached. No insulation whatsoever, just lathe&plaster, open space and roof! This the shower corner as well, most of the other sections have some styrofoam wedged in!

All rooms upstairs have a sloping ceiling and these sections of the loft are lacking in insulation. Not much of an issue anywhere besides the bathroom, where the shower head is sitting directly below the sloping ceiling! Even though we always leave the window open during and after showering...

The "grill" does not come all the way through to the bathroom, if that is what you are asking, it's only visible from outside the house. I believe the house has a cavity on the ground floor, but not on the upper floor (where the bathroom is). I haven't actually drilled into anywhere to find out...

We have already stripped this material off of other rooms, and it made no mess really. It kind of feels like a very thick paper, it's a rough texture but flat underneath, more or less came off in large sections with a paint scraper going underneath it. Not much in terms of dust, not that I recall.

Yes, there is a sort of grill/airbrick on the side of the house, where the bathroom is located.

Hey, they told me owning a house would be expensive. I still went ahead with it, didn't I? ;)

Yes, it's definitely lath and plaster, we already had some rooms completely renovated, and our plasterer pointed that out to us during the works. The ceiling feels very sturdy, there is no movement at all. I did go up in the loft, but it's impossible for me to reach this section of the...

Our main focus right now are other sections of the house, so I am not chuffed about having to spend too much time and money on the bathroom. Above post shows a few more pictures. Since the issue seems limited to a small area, would I get away with scraping that section of the ceiling (with the...

Here are a couple of pictures that show in extra detail what is happening to the ceiling. You can see in a little section what is underneath, as well as the overall affected area. The "paint" is starting to flake away, it's very crunchy and sturdy though, if that make any sense... Few notes: *...

Most rooms in my house have this sort of paint/textured product covering the ceilings (attached in pictures). My bathroom has this as well, it's a small bathroom that is south facing with a window that I open for a few hours after showering, yet, the section above the shower has started to...

Update on this: I have left a dehumidifier and fan going in this room for the last few days. I also noticed the so called "salts/efflorescence" coming from that area where the paint was flaking. I have kept wiping the "salt" off and it now seems like no more is coming through! I've been taking...

Another picture of the area that I found, after we removed the wallpaper and the picture rails, no obvious signs of water damage, unless someone here has another take?

That's it! Seems too coincidental that a lot of the problematic area is where this old picture rail used to sit in.

All the rooms used to have these wooden decorative strips, the actual name for these escapes me now, I have attached a picture from another room that had these as well. The room in question also had these, and in the plastering photo you can see where we pulled them off - The red circle I...

Attached I have highlighted an area that shows issues, before and after replaster and painting...