Areas covered
Property assessment and installation are arranged by postcode across Scotland. Major service areas:
Housing in Scotland and what it means for insulation
Tenement flats in Glasgow and Edinburgh — where the top-floor owner often shares roof responsibility — sit alongside Victorian villas, inter-war bungalows, large post-war council stock and modern timber-frame estates. Aberdeen's granite, Dundee's tenements and rural crofts and cottages each bring their own roofs. Scotland's building warrant system replaces England's Building Regulations process, and colder winters push targets and moisture design harder.
Common insulation projects in the region
- Top-floor tenement roof insulation
- Inter-war bungalow loft rooms
- Timber-frame estate loft floor upgrades
- Rural cottage and croft roof build-ups
- Spray foam assessments in the Central Belt
What we see across Scotland
- Top-floor tenement roof insulation
- Bungalow roof rooms
- Timber-frame estate loft floors
- Rural cottage roof build-ups
Qualitative pattern from the housing stock; replaced with aggregated, anonymised enquiry data as it builds.
Tenements, sarking and building warrants
Shared tenement roofs, timber sarking under slate, colder winters and the building warrant system make Scottish roof work a whole-roof, whole-owners exercise before any product is chosen.
Why foil may suit some homes here
Bungalow roof spaces and tenement top floors both run out of depth quickly; a thin certified quilt is a legitimate investigation. The decision rests on the whole roof build-up — rafter depth, ventilation, moisture, existing insulation and intended use — not on material thickness alone. Foil insulation guide.
Why foil may not suit others
Shared tenement roofs need the owners' agreement and a whole-roof design before any product is chosen. A straightforward cold loft with good access is often more appropriately upgraded with conventional mineral-wool loft insulation than a rafter-level foil system, and we say so when it is.
Field team
Scotland Field Team
Supporting homeowners across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling, Perth, Inverness and surrounding areas with property assessment to one national standard.
How it works in Scotland
- Enter your postcodeWe tell you the coverage position for the area before asking for anything else.
- Tell us about the propertyType, what you want to improve, what is there now, the main problem.
- Property assessmentWhere a physical inspection is needed: roof and loft construction, existing insulation, ventilation, moisture, depth, access.
- RecommendationFoil, multifoil or an alternative — chosen for the property, not the search term.
- QuoteFixed price with the build-up, product, certificate and inclusions stated.
- InstallationAllocated to appropriate installation capacity, photographed and recorded to one standard.
What foil insulation costs in Scotland
We do not publish invented regional prices. What moves a quote here is the same as anywhere else:
- property size and roof area
- access to the loft or roof space
- what insulation is there now and whether it stays
- the system selected — multifoil alone, multifoil with PIR, or an alternative
- preparation work, including removal of old material or spray foam
- ventilation and detailing at eaves, dormers and penetrations
National indicative ranges are in the foil insulation cost guide; as genuine project data from Scotland builds, regional ranges will be published here.
Recent foil insulation projects in Scotland
Documented projects in Scotland are added to the project library as they complete — property, survey findings, system chosen and why, duration and photographs. Until then the library's typical project scenarios show how the housing described above is assessed.
Professional installation
Installation is arranged through the national foil insulation installer page: survey first, written build-up, fixed quote, one standard. How installers are matched.