In current times with increasing energy bills, insulating your home is a beneficial measure against increase in energy costs by making energy consumption more efficient.
Under floor insulation can help to reduce the loss of heat and prevent draughts. To be eligible for under floor insulation, your home must have suspended wooden floors for the ground floor and not concrete. Some newer homes will not be eligible for the under-floor insulation grant scheme due to concrete ground floors as they cannot be insulated.
Simply turn back the carpet from the corner in a ground floor room to see if the floor is concrete or wood. Another way to determine if wooden floorboards or sheets are present is to check the external brick wall of the house. On ground floor if you have air bricks under the damp proof layer your house will have hanging wood floors due to air bricks allowing aeration, which is not viable with concrete floors.
To be eligible for under floor insulation you will not only need to have wooden hanging or suspended ground floor but also need to be in receipt of one of the following benefits
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