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Loft Insulation Corstorphine
Corstorphine was a village in its own right until it joined Edinburgh in 1920, and most of the suburb around the old core was built in the decades after. A lot of those houses are bungalows that have since gained a room in the roof, which changes what a loft survey is for.
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One house, two different insulation jobs
Walk the streets off St John's Road or up towards Drum Brae and the pattern repeats: a single-storey house with a dormer or rooflights added at the front or back. The original roof space has become a bedroom or an office, and what is left of the loft is a set of awkward voids around it.
That gives most converted Corstorphine bungalows three separate areas to look at. There is the small flat ceiling above the new room, often reached through a tiny hatch or not reachable at all. There are the eaves voids behind the low dwarf walls on each side. And there are the sloping ceilings in between, where insulation has to go at rafter level because there is no floor to lay it on.
Each of those is a different job with a different method, and a quote that treats the whole house as one loft will be wrong one way or the other.
Where the heat actually goes
In a converted bungalow the weak points are usually the dwarf walls and the floor of the eaves voids, not the main ceiling. Older attic conversions were often lined with plasterboard and very little behind it, which is why the room upstairs is cold in winter and hot in summer. Opening the eaves hatches at survey normally shows exactly where the gaps are. Where the attic has become a room, the work is room in roof insulation, quoted separately from the loft floor.
Corstorphine housing and what it needs
- Bungalows without a conversion: the simplest jobs here. Open lofts, reasonable headroom, and usually a thin original layer that has settled well below current depth.
- Converted bungalows: the commonest Corstorphine job, with the eaves voids and the ceiling above the room both needing attention.
- Interwar and post-war semis: conventional two-storey lofts with good access and a straightforward hatch.
- Older buildings in the village core: the oldest stone properties around the High Street sit in a conservation area, and we check the roof construction carefully before quoting.
- Four-in-a-block flats towards Carrick Knowe: only the upper flats have the roof space.
Whatever the property, the target is the same: 270mm of mineral wool at ceiling level, laid in two layers because joists are typically 100mm deep, with the eaves left clear so the roof can still ventilate. That depth is guidance for an existing home rather than a legal requirement, and it is the point past which extra material stops paying for itself.
We install loft and roof insulation only. No cavity wall insulation, no underfloor work, and no spray foam, which bonds to the roof timbers and causes problems at sale. Where old material is dry and clean it is topped up rather than removed, which is cheaper and works just as well.
For most Corstorphine homeowners the benefit shows up in lower energy bills within a few winters, because a bungalow loses a large share of its heat through a ceiling that covers the whole house. If the hatch is awkward, a loft ladder can be installed at the same visit, which also makes it easier to check the space for condensation in future.
Where Corstorphine sits, and why that matters
Corstorphine lies on the west side of the city along the A8, with Corstorphine Hill to the north and Edinburgh Zoo on its south eastern edge. Before it was absorbed into the city it was already becoming a commuter base for people working in Edinburgh, and the suburb filled in steadily through the middle of the twentieth century.
That timing matters for the loft. Houses from the 1920s and 1930s had no insulation at all when new. Most have had one layer added since, usually 50mm to 100mm laid between the joists a long time ago, and nothing after that. It is well short of the 270mm now recommended, and topping it up is the single biggest improvement available on most of these streets.
The hill makes a small difference too. Streets that climb towards Clermiston and the Drum Brae side catch more of the westerly wind than the flatter ground near the railway, and a draughty hatch or an open eaves void loses more heat on the higher ground.
Other areas we cover near Corstorphine
We work right across the city. If your street sits on the boundary, these are the neighbouring pages.
- Loft insulation Carrick Knowe & Saughtonhall
- Loft insulation Clermiston & Drylaw
- Loft insulation Sighthill, Broomhouse & Stenhouse
For the citywide picture, including grants and how we price the work, see loft insulation in Edinburgh.
The work, filmed as it happens
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What people say after the survey
Our reviews are published on Trustpilot under Easy-Sprayaway, the other name we trade as.
“Ross showed me the video he took of my loft and explained his findings. I went for the Easy Quilt.”
“James McMillan came & completed a full survey of my loft space. Explained everything clearly & answered all my questions.”
“Rayan was very efficient and knowledgeable about the product. He explained the benefit of having the work done.”
Frequently asked questions
Yes, but it is a different job from insulating a loft floor. The sloping ceilings, the dwarf walls and the small flat ceiling at the top each need their own approach, so room in roof work is quoted separately once we have seen it.
An unconverted bungalow has a large, open loft and usually sits in the middle of the range. A converted one is harder to price without a survey, because it depends on how much of the original roof space can still be reached. The survey turns it into a fixed written price.
Not for loft insulation laid at ceiling level, which is internal and changes nothing anyone can see. Dormers, rooflights and anything else that alters the roof are planning matters.
Usually, yes, provided there is a hatch or one can be fitted. These voids are often the weakest point in a converted bungalow, and the work keeps a ventilation gap at the eaves so the roof can still breathe.
The loft will be colder, which is the point. If you store things up there, raised boarding sits above the full depth of insulation so nothing is crushed, and tanks and pipes are lagged at the same time.
We do not carry out grant-funded installations, so all of our work is paid for privately. Scottish Government funding does exist, and it is worth checking with Home Energy Scotland on 0808 808 2282 before you pay anyone, including us.
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