Advice: Loft conversion, pitched roof insulation

[rossyl]

Hi,

Moved into a new flat, which is basically a loft conversion.

The rooms with pitched roofs seem to have very bad insulation. When it gets cold the room is almost colder than being oustide! You can almost feel the breeze!

The conversion was done in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

I was wondering what the best method of insulating the roof? Taking down the current plasterboard, and installing what? Any points to bare in mind?

There are also small storage cubby holes in the pitched roofs that seem to be very drafty, what could be done here?

All advice appreciated.

Thanks
R

 

[rossyl]

Thanks guys.

I've had a look at government grants.

They only seem to be for cavity wall insulation and for lofts (i.e. flat lofts0. Annoyingly they don't seem to provide any grants for pitched roofs. Unless you know something i don't...??

I'll look into Kingspan and similar.

Any other ideas?