I screwed my loft boards straight down onto the joists just to get the storage back: the first cold snap, standing in the bedroom below, I understood what those 270 millimetres had become
A homeowner’s quest for loft storage revealed a national problem: compressing insulation reduces its effectiveness by up to 61%, wasting heat and inviting damp into timber joists. Standing in a freezing bedroom during the first cold snap, the true cost of that decision became impossible to ignore—but the fix is simpler than most realize.