Hi,
Ideally I'd find a contractor to do this, but so far can't find anyone interested in insulating anything except a flat conventional ceiling. So it looks like it's either DIY or continue without insulation.
Our house has traditional attic bedrooms with lathe and plaster internal walls and ceilings. The roof is sarking and slate. The bedrooms have the normal form with vertical walls of around 1m high, and sloping ceiling above that. The sloping part it fixed directly to the roof rafters. There's a small amount of flat ceiling giving a crawl space along the apex as well as along the eves on each side. Any insulation therefore needs to be pulled or pushed into the spaces between the rafters, and I assume it shouldn't completely fill the space but should leave clearance between the insulation and the sarking.
Any ideas about how best to insulate in this case? I'm still convinced there there should be a way, given how many houses of this form exist in NE Scotland.
Thanks in advance, Tony S
Ideally I'd find a contractor to do this, but so far can't find anyone interested in insulating anything except a flat conventional ceiling. So it looks like it's either DIY or continue without insulation.
Our house has traditional attic bedrooms with lathe and plaster internal walls and ceilings. The roof is sarking and slate. The bedrooms have the normal form with vertical walls of around 1m high, and sloping ceiling above that. The sloping part it fixed directly to the roof rafters. There's a small amount of flat ceiling giving a crawl space along the apex as well as along the eves on each side. Any insulation therefore needs to be pulled or pushed into the spaces between the rafters, and I assume it shouldn't completely fill the space but should leave clearance between the insulation and the sarking.
Any ideas about how best to insulate in this case? I'm still convinced there there should be a way, given how many houses of this form exist in NE Scotland.
Thanks in advance, Tony S