Grants for loft or cavity wall insulation, of around 50% and above, are available for all home owners and private tenants - whatever your income - and of 100% if you satisfy the eligibility criteria.
The list of criteria below allows you to see if you are eligible for FREE loft / cavity wall insulation. If you are NOT eligible for the FULL 100% grant, you can still apply for a partial grant of 50-70% and under certain circumstances, more. Click the blue patch to the right to start your cavity wall or loft insulation enquiry.
If you receive
- Attendance Allowance
- Child Tax Credit (annual income of £15,460 or less)
- Council Tax Credit (which must include a disability premium)
- Disability Living Allowance
- Disability Pension
- Housing Benefit (which must include a disability premium)
- Income Support (which must include a disability premium)
- Income-based Job Seekers Allowance
- State Pension Credit
- War Disablement Pension (which must include a mobility supplement or Constant Attendance Allowance)
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (which must include a mobility supplement or Constant Attendance Allowance)
- Working Family Tax Credit (annual income of £15,460 or less)
Please complete the form provided, giving as much detail as possible and a surveyor will contact you by telephone or email, to ascertain whether or not you are eligible for a grant.
Before you enquire, you might like to check if your property is suitable for cavity wall insulation.
How to check if your property is suitable for cavity wall insulation:
It will have been built after the 1920's.
Many inner London properties are NOT suitable.
In the case of brick constructed houses if the bricks are all laid “side-on” and the walls are about 300mm (12in) thick, they probably have cavities.
Its brick pattern will be similar to that seen below.
If they have a regular pattern of “side on and end on” brickwork they are usually 225mm (9in) - or the brick length - thick and more likely to be solid walls:
Cavity wall brick pattern is NOT as shown below, this shows a typical solid brick wall.
