Insulation Editing and Proofreading Services

Insulation performs at the junctions or it does not perform. The boards in the middle of the wall are easy and nobody gets those wrong; the losses happen at the eaves, around the window reveal, where the party wall meets the roof, and behind the ceiling that was closed up before anybody photographed what was behind it. Once the plasterboard is on, the only evidence that the layer is continuous is a record somebody made at the time.

We edit what insulation contractors and specialists produce — installation records and photographic evidence documentation, junction and continuity detail descriptions, method statements for specific build-ups, as-built records for warranty and compliance purposes, thermal bridging and detail compliance documentation, airtightness interface documentation, product-specific installation instructions, quality assurance and inspection regimes, remedial and retrofit assessment reports, ventilation and condensation risk explanations for clients, and handover documentation for the building file. Our editors work on the evidence that the layer is continuous.

The installation record covering junctions is the document that either supports a compliance claim or leaves a builder with a photograph of a wall, and its failure is recording coverage instead of continuity. Photographs of insulated bays prove the bays were insulated. We work through these so the record is structured around the junctions rather than the areas, since every junction is a named detail on a drawing and every one of them either was executed as drawn or was not; so each entry names the detail reference, the location, the date it was closed up and who inspected it before closure, because the inspection before closure is the only one that can ever happen; so the photograph is described in the record rather than filed loose, given that four hundred untitled images prove nothing to anybody; so any departure from the detail is recorded with what was done instead and who approved it, as this is what an assessor will look for and what the builder will need in five years; so the interface with the airtightness layer is recorded separately, because the two layers are installed by different trades and the gap between them is where the performance goes; so anything that could not be inspected before closure is listed as such rather than left silent; and so the ventilation provision affected by the work is recorded. Records written this way support the compliance claim they are attached to.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including records, assessments and project information. We are editors rather than building physicists or compliance assessors, and we offer no view on thermal performance, detailing or compliance. What we can do is make the record prove continuity rather than coverage.