Roof & Ceiling Insulation Services
Addressing the most important section of your home. Starting with a comprehensive ceiling and roof inspection, our team uses high quality insulation batts for your ceiling to drastically improve the energy efficiency and overall comfort of your home.
Our team proudly works with Australia’s leading insulation suppliers (including Bradford, Earthwool and more) to bring your home outstanding energy-saving results.
We address any required maintenance and repairs, as well as offer a complete ceiling cavity vacuum before starting. This ensures the best results and longevity of your newly installed insulation.
We’re committed to helping Tasmanian locals lower their energy bills. Every roof insulation installation is completed with precision and attention to detail.
With years of industry experience, our team has expertly handled countless roof insulation projects across Launceston, Hobart, Devonport, and North-West Tasmania.
With the cost of energy constantly rising, insulating your home’s ceiling is crucial if you want to avoid paying excess on wasted energy bills. The Australian government estimates a huge portion of a home’s heat gains in summer (25% to 35%) and heat losses in winter occur through the ceiling. This range is higher than any other section of your home, making your home’s roof the biggest contributor to energy losses. Tasmania is one of the coldest regions in Australia, making proper insulation essential to prevent spikes in energy bills.
The Climate Council’s Smarter Energy Use report estimates that families in Tasmania could be losing over $400 annually in energy costs due to inadequate ceiling insulation. In addition to managing unnecessary financial pressure, living in a cold home can lead to health issues, making insulation not just a comfort matter, but an important health priority too.
Save on Energy, Keep Your Home Comfortable Year-Round
Insulation helps your living space maintain a comfortable, temperate environment year-round. It works by reducing the rate at which heat flows in and out of your house, giving you, as a homeowner, more control of your living space.
In winter, insulation traps heat generated inside your living space, keeping your home warm and cosy. Conversely, in the summer, it slows down the heat transfer from the outside environment to your home, helping you stay cool and temperate in the hotter months.
In addition, effective insulation can also dampen external noise, contributing to a quieter indoor environment. By installing proper insulation, you save money on energy bills and enhance your space’s overall comfort and livability.
Will Insulation Turn my Home Into a Hotbox in the Summer?
A common misconception about insulation is that it might make homes excessively hot during summer (the Hot Box myth). If installed correctly by an expert, quality insulation not only prevents heat from escaping in the winter but also slows down the rate of heat gain in the summer, maintaining a comfortable, moderate temperature inside your home year-round.
Insulation is a barrier to heat flow, making it effective in hot and cold conditions. This also means that quality insulation will help you maximise the cooling capacity of your air conditioning unit during the summer by keeping your home cool. Insulating your ceiling is one of the best places to start if you’re looking to achieve a balanced and pleasant indoor environment (regardless of the season).
RDW offers talented roof and ceiling insulation installers. Proudly servicing residential customers throughout Hobart, Launceston, Devonport, and North-West Tasmania since 2013, have peace of mind knowing you’re working with a fully licensed & insured team of experts.
Here are a few reasons to choose RDW when insulating your roof:
- Use the highest quality batts from Australia’s most respected brands
- An end-to-end process, including any required maintenance, followed by a complete ceiling cavity vacuum first.
- A talented team of licensed roofers who are focused on delivering energy-saving results for your home.
- We offer an honest and transparent process; we’ll only suggest a solution if we know it’s the right one for your home.
- The capacity to service Hobart, Launceston, Devonport, Burnie, and all surrounding areas.
Get in touch with us today and have your ceiling professionally inspected by one of our expert roofers today.
Insulation Does More Than Just Lower Your Utility Bills
In addition to potentially hundreds of dollars in energy energy savings per year, insulating your ceiling has a range of important benefits:
Comfortable Living Environment
A constantly deviating internal temperature is a telltale sign your home’s insulation is not doing the job. Having a professional roofer install your insulation can help you maintain a stable indoor climate, keeping your home temperate and comfortable year-round. In addition, this also removes the inconvenience of continuous heating or cooling adjustments.
Noise Reduction
In select instances, insulation can minimise noise pollution and reverberation. If external sounds like traffic or internal echo are an irritation, roof and ceiling insulation can act as a sound buffer. By reducing the intrusion of outside noise and minimising echo, insulation helps create a quieter, more peaceful environment in your home.
Prevents Moisture Issues
Moisture and condensation in your home can lead to mould and mildew growth, posing health risks and eventually damaging your property. Roof and ceiling insulation can help prevent these issues by reducing condensation build-up. By maintaining a consistent internal temperature, insulation minimises the conditions that allow for moisture build-up, ensuring a healthier, mould-free living space.
Reduced Carbon Emissions
If you’re worried about your home’s environmental footprint, insulating your roof and ceiling can be a part of the solution. By minimising wasted heating and cooling costs, you can also reduce your energy consumption and ultimately reduce your home’s CO2 emissions. In addition, modern-day insulation products are eco-friendly, with manufacturing practices designed to minimise the environmental impact of production.
Improved Health
Living in a home that’s too cold in winter or hot in summer can negatively impact your health and well-being. Inadequate temperature control leads to discomfort and can exacerbate health issues like respiratory problems, allergies, and stress. Cold, damp conditions are particularly conducive to the growth of mould and mildew, which can have serious health implications, especially for those with asthma or weakened immune systems. Insulating your roof and ceiling creates a living environment with stable and comfortable temperatures, minimising stress and improving your overall health and well-being.
Make An Informed Decision for Your Roof
With high-quality tiles, a fresh new roof offers excellent reflective properties to prevent UV light from penetrating your home, keeping you comfortable and temperate.
Your tiles are a physical barrier for falling trees, hail, or pests such as rats, possums, and birds from nesting in your attic. An uncompromised roof also protects your insulation.
Your roof is an essential barrier to the external environment, working in tangent with your ventilation to prevent pollutants and allergens from entering your living space.
With many residential building inspections failing on the roof, a new roof adds significant value to your home.
An immediate consideration is that foot traffic, including gutter cleaning, solar installations, etc., can cause roof tile cracks. A qualified roofer can immediately replace cracked tiles before any further damage starts.
Within as soon as ten years, the pointing of your roof can start showing signs of cracking (further worsened by foot traffic). A quick pointing touch-up is a simple way to prevent further damage.
Within ten years, the first signs of moss and lichen will start to show (particularly in moist environments). A periodic powerwash is the best way to keep your roof looking fresh.
Usually one of the first things to go, your ridge cap end tile can start to feel the weight of gravity and begin to slide. This is an easy fix at this stage.
More extensively cracked and peeling ridge pointing will start to show, exposing the mortar under your hip tiles (ridge caps). Should you address the issue soon enough, a qualified roofer could save the bedding with a cost-effective pointing touch-up.
Your roof’s flashings can become dislodged over time and may need replacement. A simple installation of a lead-free, adhesive flashing is a cost-effective way to prevent further damage.
At a minimum, we recommend a roofing inspection of your roof to have any routine maintenance complete and ensure your roof is in functional condition.
Moss and lichen will continue to grow, making your roof look lacklustre and contributing to cracking of your pointing. A simple roof clean by an expert is a great way to nip this issue in the bud.
If your end ridge tile is not addressed soon, it can continue to slide and allow the tiles it sits on to begin to slide into your gutter.
Ridge caps are likely loose at this point. When this occurs, complete cleaning and replacing bedding cement is required to ensure the ridges are refastened and stay in place.
If left unattended, the pointing of your ridge caps (at a bare minimum) needs replacing to keep your ridge caps secure.
With age, all roofs will lose their colour/glaze. Restoring this is for cosmetic purposes, but when all maintenance is completed, followed by re-sealing and painting, it will add a new lease of life to an old, bland roof.
By this stage, your end cap could have continued to slide off, leaving no weight on its under tiles. This not only looks terrible but also allows water ingress.
At this point, your roof may be beyond repair. Moss could have penetrated under your tiles, unattended mechanical stress could leave your tiles riddled with cracks, and your ridge caps likely need complete repair. Unfortunately, complete reroofing may be the only solution.
The roof tiles are designed to allow rain to run freely off your roof and into your gutter to prevent pooling on your roof’s surface.
Your roof’s valleys act as a securely sealed, free-flowing channel to allow stormwater to run seamlessly into your gutters.
The ridges of your roof are fastened with bedding cement and sealed with pointing mortar to prevent water ingress.
Flashings are small pieces of metal placed around your roof’s joints to act as a tight and secure waterproofing barrier.
Strong winds caused by storms can dislodge valley tiles. Having an expert roofer clip these back into place is an easy and cost-effective way to avoid further damage.
Within ten years, debris and organic matter will start to fill in your gutter, increasing the chances of rust and water overflow. A simple, quick emptying of your gutter is the best way to avoid any issues.
Any cracked and unattended pointing will start to make your roof vulnerable to water ingress, with a high chance of leaks beginning to move through your ceiling and into your attic.
Flashings aged 20 years are highly sensitive to wind gusts, proving a prime access point for water infiltration.
At the 20-year mark, multiple roof tiles are likely to become dislodged. Having an expert lock them in place is a simple way to prevent leaks.
At this point, unattended leaks are already soaking your ceiling insulation, making it an excellent breeding ground for mould and rendering the insulation effectively useless.
If exposed to moisture, your ceiling insulation has heavily degraded and is likely full of mould. Degraded insulation is an excellent breeding ground for mould and could be promptly replaced to keep your indoor space healthy and comfortable.
Unattended ridge caps with deteriorated pointing and bedding are a leading reason for water ingress and leaks coming through your ceiling.
Any unattended leaks will show on your ceiling and walls as yellow stains and mould. An expert professionally treating your home for mould and water stains is costly…
Unattended leaks are a significant electrical hazard and could be dripping onto electricals. If exposed to water, this poses a considerable fire risk and likely needs complete replacement.
An unattended roof will likely allow multiple entry points for water ingress into your ceiling. Wood rot of your trusses could be a significant issue at this point, and the plaster of your ceiling may need complete replacement.
thousands of happy customers
“RDW Roofing did an excellent job at repointing the ridge capping and valley on our tiled roof, very professional using quality Selly’s products. Very happy with the outcome and would recommend RDW Roofing to others. Next on the list when we are ready is to give it a fresh paint, i know who i will be calling!”
Craig G., Homeowner
“RDW Roofing and Ryan responded brilliantly to our need to have an old 1930 tile roof repaired and restored. We chose to have the roof cleaned, repaired and re-pointed, and the results speak for themselves. Great communication, arrived on time, professional service […] and tidied up after themselves. Honest quote, came in at less than estimated. Would recommend to all.”
Mat R., Homeowner
“I found the team at RDW Roofing to be thoroughly professional, courteous and happy to adapt to any changes. The result is a fantastic looking roof which has made a real difference to the appearance of my house. Very happy indeed and recommend them to anyone”
Andrew H., Homeowner