The older settlements it absorbed — Wellington, Ironbridge, Dawley — are a different proposition with older rafters and cottages.
Telford's housing and what it means for insulation
Telford is a new town: most of its housing is 1960s–90s with trussed roofs and, in the earlier phases, thin original insulation. Around it, Wellington, Oakengates, Dawley and Ironbridge keep older terraces and cottages with very different roofs.
Typical Telford enquiries
- Loft floor upgrades in new-town trussed-roof housing
- Older terrace and cottage roof work in Wellington and Ironbridge
- Garden room and outbuilding lining
- Loft boarding combined with insulation
Qualitative pattern from Telford's housing stock; replaced with aggregated, anonymised Telford enquiry data as it builds.
New-town housing in Telford: what 1970s insulation looks like now
Telford's estates were built in phases from the 1960s, and the earlier grid squares have the thinnest original loft insulation; the older settlements around them have the rafters that raise foil questions.
Houses built in the town's expansion phases have trussed roofs, cavity walls and insulation that was installed to the standard of the time — often 50–100mm — and has settled since. The job is ceiling-level: mineral wool to depth, raised boarding where storage is wanted, a thin foil layer over the wool under boards where headroom for storage is tight. The older town's terraces are where rafter-level questions arise.
Coverage around Telford
Assessment and installation are allocated by postcode and project type across Telford and these surrounding areas:
We also cover Solihull, Cannock, Dudley and the rest of the West Midlands.
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 Telford quotes exist.
Local projects
Documented Telford 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.