Aberdeen's housing and what it means for insulation
Granite tenements and terraces in the city, Victorian villas in the West End, inter-war bungalows in Mannofield and Cults, post-war estates at Mastrick and Northfield, and oil-era 1970s–2000s suburbs at Bridge of Don, Westhill and Portlethen. Cold, exposed sites push targets and moisture design.
Typical Aberdeen enquiries
- Granite tenement roof insulation
- Inter-war bungalow loft rooms in Cults and Mannofield
- Loft floor upgrades in oil-era suburbs
- Rural farmhouse roof build-ups in Aberdeenshire
Qualitative pattern from Aberdeen's housing stock; replaced with aggregated, anonymised Aberdeen enquiry data as it builds.
Granite Aberdeen: cold, exposed and hard to warm
Aberdeen's granite tenements offer no easy wall route, so the roof carries more of the thermal work, and a roof that spends months near freezing needs its moisture design done properly.
Granite walls and tenements hold cold and offer no easy wall insulation route, so the roof carries a larger share of the thermal work than elsewhere. Long, cold winters and exposure push the target performance and the moisture design harder; a multifoil build-up here is normally combined with PIR to reach the target and the ventilation is designed for a roof that spends months near freezing.
Coverage around Aberdeen
Assessment and installation are allocated by postcode and project type across Aberdeen and these surrounding areas:
We also cover Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow and the rest of Scotland.
How it works, briefly
Postcode → property questions → assessment where a physical inspection is needed → recommendation → fixed quote → installation. Every step runs to the InsulationMatch installation standard; the installing company is named on the quote. Multifoil itself is explained in the multifoil guide, and what moves a price in the cost guide. Local ranges are published here only once genuine Aberdeen quotes exist.
Local projects
Documented Aberdeen projects are added to the project library as they complete. Until then the library's typical project scenarios show how the housing above is assessed.