Loft boarding and insulation in Bury St Edmunds
A boarded loft you can store things in, with the insulation under it left at its full depth. We board and insulate lofts in Bury St Edmunds. 80.6% of lofts in Bury St Edmunds have less than 270mm of insulation. The survey is free and takes about twenty minutes. You get a written price before any work starts.
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Boarding, insulation and ladders in Bury St Edmunds
See all servicesMost lofts in Bury St Edmunds have some insulation but less than 270mm, so they need a top up before the boards go on. We do both in one job and quote for what yours needs. We fit loft ladders and hatches too.
Bury St Edmunds has 255 homes with a room in the roof on their certificate. If that is what you want from your loft, that is a loft conversion, and we do those as well.
What happens next
We survey your loft
We come out to Bury St Edmunds and measure your insulation. The survey is free and takes about twenty minutes.
You get a written price
You get a written price before any work starts. It says what is included and what costs extra.
We do the work
We top the insulation up to 270mm if it is short and fit the boards on raised legs.
Check your own loft in Bury St Edmunds
Put your Bury St Edmunds postcode in the box and we will show you the loft insulation depth on your energy certificate.
Which one is yours?
2,435 lofts in Bury St Edmunds have less than 150mm of insulation.
We top yours up and board it. You get a written price first.
Book a free surveyHow deep is the insulation in Bury St Edmunds lofts?
We checked the energy certificates for 8,596 houses and bungalows in Bury St Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds is in Suffolk, so we count its homes separately from our Cambridgeshire figures.
80.6% of lofts in Bury St Edmunds have less than 270mm of insulation. A typical one has 200mm.
From the public energy certificate register, read September 2026. How we worked it out.
"Increase loft insulation to 270 mm"
1,379 homes in Bury St Edmunds have that line on their energy certificate. See what yours says.
Why Bury St Edmunds lofts are the way they are
Bury St Edmunds has two kinds of loft. Homes built since 1996 are mostly well insulated. Older ones are not, and only 1,669 of the 8,596 lofts we checked are already at the recommended 270mm.
33.1% of homes in Bury St Edmunds were built from 1996 onwards. Only 10.2% of lofts in those homes have less than 150mm.
A typical loft in a Bury St Edmunds home built between 1967 and 1995 has 150mm, and 34.5% have less than 150mm.
15.0% of homes here date from before 1930. 34.7% of their lofts have less than 150mm.
3,082 lofts in Bury St Edmunds have been measured twice, and 1,316 of them were deeper at the second visit.
Where we work around Bury St Edmunds
We cover the whole of Bury St Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds is in Suffolk. 12,218 homes here are on the energy register.
The orange pin is Bury St Edmunds. The dark dots are other places we work: Ely, Newmarket, Soham, Littleport, Sawston and Haverhill.
All areas we cover
Near Bury St Edmunds
Photographs: the photograph at the top of this page, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds by Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; the one across the middle, Bury St Edmunds Abbey from the air by John Fielding from Norwich, UK, CC BY 2.0, cropped. Nearby photographs: Newmarket, Newmarket, Suffolk, UK by EduMark, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Haverhill, Haverhill High Street by Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Soham, High Street, Soham by Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.
Questions about lofts in Bury St Edmunds
How much loft insulation do Bury St Edmunds homes have?
A typical loft in Bury St Edmunds has 200mm, and the Energy Saving Trust recommends at least 270mm. 28.3% of lofts here have less than 150mm.
My Bury St Edmunds home was built after 1996. Does the loft need anything?
Often only a floor. Only 10.2% of lofts in homes of that age here have less than 150mm. We measure yours at the survey and board it on raised legs.
How many days does it take to board a loft in Bury St Edmunds?
Most lofts take one to two days. Bigger jobs, or ones where insulation goes in as well, can take a few days. You will know how long before we start.
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Book a free survey
Tell us where you are in Bury St Edmunds and what you want done. The survey is free and takes about twenty minutes. You get a written price before any work starts. There is a discount for over 60s and for NHS, police and fire service staff. Mention it when you enquire.