The hottest part of your house is the part nobody looks at.
A focused, measured check of the roof space, anywhere on the Coffs Coast.
We record temperature, humidity and ventilation above the ceiling, and observe how the insulation is actually sitting, so you know what that space is doing to the rooms below.
Led by a licensed builder with nearly 20 years in residential building. Licence 332487C. Based in Coffs Harbour, working Port Macquarie to Yamba.
Insulation stops working quietly. Nothing in the room below tells you.
A roof space can run far hotter than the rooms beneath it through summer, and hold moisture through the cooler months. What sits up there sets the starting conditions for everything below it.
Insulation that has been walked on, pushed aside by trades running cable or ducting, or never laid out to the edges in the first place, stops doing its job without any sign in the rooms below. You feel the result as rooms that will not hold temperature and bills that will not come down. The cause sits above the ceiling, where almost nothing gets measured.
What measuring it actually changes
Insulation and roof ventilation are commonly quoted. They are rarely verified afterwards. Measuring the space first records what is actually happening up there, and measuring it again later shows whether the money changed anything. Without a starting record there is nothing to compare against.
What we measure
- Temperature and humidity in the roof space, compared against the outside air and against the rooms below.
- Ventilation: whether the space is exhausting heat and moisture, where air enters and leaves, and where it is blocked.
- Moisture at marked points on accessible timbers and surfaces, so the same spots can be measured again later.
- Insulation coverage, gaps, displacement and compression, observed and recorded with photographs.
- Any staining or past water tracking, recorded as an observation with its location and the conditions on the day.
- Thermal indicators where there is enough temperature difference for them to be useful. Where conditions are unsuitable, that limitation is recorded rather than producing imagery that cannot be interpreted.
- The conditions on the day: recent rainfall, outside air and roof orientation, so a reading can be read in context.
What you get
A plain-language roof space report
Opening with the status of the space and the top measured findings, then what the readings indicate, the recommended next step, and any limitations.
An insulation coverage record
What is up there, how it is sitting, and where the gaps are, shown with photographs of what was observed rather than described from memory.
A temperature, humidity and ventilation summary
What the space is doing across the day it was measured, and how that compares to the outside air and the rooms below.
Permanent reference points
Every mapped point gets its own reference, so the same locations can be measured again after insulation or ventilation work and the two sets compared directly.
Areas are recorded against these four statuses, the same way they are in every Joe Builds assessment.
Who this is for
- Rooms that overheat through summer, or will not hold warmth through winter.
- Anyone quoted for insulation, roof ventilation or a whole-home upgrade who wants measured evidence before committing.
- Homes where trades have been through the roof space and the insulation has not been checked since.
- Before and after insulation or ventilation work, so the change is recorded at the same points rather than assumed.
- Older homes where nobody currently knows what is up there, or whether it still covers what it was meant to cover.
Already had a baseline?
A Roof Space Assessment can be booked on its own, or added to a Home Performance Baseline so the whole house and the space above it are recorded together on the same visit.
We measure and report.
We do not move, install or remove insulation, walk on ceilings, or provide structural, roofing, pest or compliance sign-off, and we do not identify surface growth or name a mould species by sight. Those are specialist referrals.
Where the measured evidence supports further investigation, the report explains why and names the appropriate professional pathway.
Access depends on a safe entry point and safe footing on structural framing. Where an area cannot be safely reached on the day, that limitation is recorded rather than guessed at, and that part of the scope is refunded.
Find out what is happening above your ceiling.
Temperature, humidity, ventilation and insulation condition recorded before you insulate, vent or assume the cause.
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