Q BOT sprayed under floor insulation

[Joeboy]

This has popped up.in my newsfeed a couple of time. Does anyone know of someone who has had this done?

https://q-bot.co/?gclid=CjwKCAiAjrarBhA ... IEQAvD_BwE

A mate in NI spent 1,000's having his sprayfoam loft insulation ripped out as buyers mortgage company wouldn't lend on the sale with it insitu.

Thought of that when I saw the ad.

[resybaby]

Dont know anybody who has had this done but do remember hearing about the issues with lending once installed in a roof.

Just thinking from a practical point of view - having fitted more than enough piping under susp floors when working as a plumber. A God awful job working down there.
Just how does this little robot sneak through the pier walls under these floors? not to mention navigate all the rubbish and detritus, as well as pipework and cables found dangling under the average susp floor?
Then of course any holes in the boards (there always is) means it'll spray said foam onto the backs of floor coverings, lumpy solid tufts of foam filled carpet abound!

[richbee]

Given all the horror stories about roof insulating, I would be very wary. Even though it sounds like it would be the easiest way to insulate under a floor, without having to rip it all up if you don't have a crawl space.


I have a floor I would like to insulate, but it would mean ripping up the laminate floor we put in an few years ago - and there is only a 12" gap, so the chipboard flooring would presumably all have to come up too - not a small job!

[AGT]

Dont know anybody who has had this done but do remember hearing about the issues with lending once installed in a roof.

Just thinking from a practical point of view - having fitted more than enough piping under susp floors when working as a plumber. A God awful job working down there.
Just how does this little robot sneak through the pier walls under these floors? not to mention navigate all the rubbish and detritus, as well as pipework and cables found dangling under the average susp floor?
Then of course any holes in the boards (there always is) means it'll spray said foam onto the backs of floor coverings, lumpy solid tufts of foam filled carpet abound!

Fully agree with the above.
Been under lots of floors and no robot is doing a commando crawl over all the crap that’s left behind.

[AE-NMidlands]

Fully agree with the above.
Been under lots of floors and no robot is doing a commando crawl over all the crap that’s left behind.

Not even this one? (forgive the source, it was the first on DuckDuckGo!)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... radiation/
We have seen it before, maybe patrolling an HEP station for unexpected noises/vibrations, it is brilliant...

[Swwils]

It's very effective. It's one of the only retro insulation methods backed up by real science and real installation monitoring. The studies also found it far more effective than estimated.

Absolutely zero mortgage issues, as they are selective on the installation criteria.

The robots wheels are on pivots, it can raise to about 1 foot of clearance so crap in voids is not an issue and the turret is steerable.

[AGT]

I wouldn’t be tempted to use it.

[Joeboy]

I wouldn’t be tempted to use it.

I thought I'd run through our house for a quote, genuinely just being nosey.

£8,000 to £8,500!

[richbee]

It's very effective. It's one of the only retro insulation methods backed up by real science and real installation monitoring. The studies also found it far more effective than estimated.

Absolutely zero mortgage issues, as they are selective on the installation criteria.

The robots wheels are on pivots, it can raise to about 1 foot of clearance so crap in voids is not an issue and the turret is steerable.

Do you know if it is applied differently from the roof version of the same sprayed foam which seems to be so problematic from a mortgage point of view, or is it that the floor behaves in a different way to the roof, so there isn't the same risk of excluding air and leading to rot?

[Oliver90owner]

It's very effective. It's one of the only retro insulation methods backed up by real science and real installation monitoring. The studies also found it far more effective than estimated.

Absolutely zero mortgage issues, as they are selective on the installation criteria.

The robots wheels are on pivots, it can raise to about 1 foot of clearance so crap in voids is not an issue and the turret is steerable.

Do you know if it is applied differently from the roof version of the same sprayed foam which seems to be so problematic from a mortgage point of view, or is it that the floor behaves in a different way to the roof, so there isn't the same risk of excluding air and leading to rot?

I don’t see any direct connection between roof and floor - unless the floor is continually wet!

That quote of over £8k seems horrific for a (suggested) day and a half of work. It should work for floor-boarded dwellings, but they may not entertain any floors that are completely sealed above the boarding - they do show the older type of floor-boarding on their vid - and they are not (apparently) sealing the floor joists, so they should remain dry as long as the under-floor ventilation is OK.