Ceiling Insulation in Mornington Peninsula

Building in Mornington Peninsula

Postwar and estate housing through Frankston, Carrum Downs and Langwarrin, shifting to mid-century holiday housing and recent coastal builds further down the peninsula. Salt air near the foreshore and a lot of houses built for summer use only.

The housing stock

Postwar and estate housing through Frankston, Carrum Downs, Seaford and Langwarrin, then a shift further down the peninsula to mid-century holiday housing at Rosebud, Rye and Dromana alongside recent coastal building. The holiday stock is the distinctive part. Fibro and weatherboard houses built for summer use, frequently with no insulation at all because nobody expected them to be occupied in July.

What changes the job here

• Former holiday housing frequently has no insulation at all, having never been lived in through winter
• Low-pitched mid-century roofs with limited access in the coastal pockets
• Sloping blocks through Mount Eliza and Mount Martha put access in difficult positions

Access and local constraints

Access varies more here than anywhere else in the catchment. The Frankston and Carrum Downs housing is conventional and easy. The coastal housing is often low-pitched with restricted roof space, and the sloping blocks through Mount Eliza and Mount Martha put the access hatch in awkward positions on split levels. Salt air means the condition of anything metallic in the roof space is worth looking at while the space is open.

Climate and timing

Cooler and windier than Melbourne along the foreshore, with a long cold season in the houses that were never built for it. The peninsula fills over summer, which makes access, parking and scheduling harder through the holiday period and pushes work into the quieter months. That suits the job, since autumn and winter are when owners are most motivated anyway.

What we are usually asked for here

The former holiday houses are the strongest single opportunity in this catchment and routinely have nothing at all in the ceiling. Frankston and Carrum Downs postwar housing usually has thin original material. The blockers split by area. Down the peninsula it is the number of houses that have been rebuilt or extensively renovated in the last few years, and closer to Frankston it is downlights put in during renovations through the 2000s.