Scotland's building warrant process applies throughout.
Edinburgh's housing and what it means for insulation
Georgian New Town and Victorian tenements — many listed — with slate roofs and shared ownership; colony houses in Stockbridge and Leith; Victorian villas in Morningside and Trinity; inter-war bungalows across Corstorphine, Blackhall and Colinton; and post-war and modern estates on the outskirts.
Typical Edinburgh enquiries
- Listed tenement roof insulation assessments
- Inter-war bungalow loft rooms in Corstorphine and Colinton
- Villa roof-level insulation in Morningside
- Colony house loft conversions
Qualitative pattern from Edinburgh's housing stock; replaced with aggregated, anonymised Edinburgh enquiry data as it builds.
Edinburgh tenements: a shared roof needs a shared decision
Edinburgh's tenements are often listed and always shared, and the sarking boards under the slate change the ventilation design; Corstorphine and Colinton's bungalows are the simpler roof-space conversions.
A top-floor tenement owner has the roof above them but shares its structure, its maintenance and usually its costs with everyone below. Insulating at rafter level is possible and often worthwhile, but it follows a whole-roof assessment, agreement through the factor or owners' association, and a building warrant where required. The slate roof, the sarking boards and the ventilation of the roof void are what the survey looks at first.
Coverage around Edinburgh
Assessment and installation are allocated by postcode and project type across Edinburgh and these surrounding areas:
We also cover Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee 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 Edinburgh quotes exist.
Local projects
Documented Edinburgh 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.