Why Should You Insulate Exposed Roof Trusses

For over 40 years, our team at Leach Trusses has been providing you with high-quality, long-lasting roofs. This is why we want to discuss with you the importance of insulating your roofs, especially your exposed roof trusses. Insulating your roof will not only benefit you and your family but also the environment.

Below we explain what exposed roof trusses are, provide the benefits of insulating these trusses and share some information about our roofing trusses.

What Are Exposed Roof Trusses?

A roof truss is a framework made from timber that supports the structure of your roof. Roof trusses can also be used to bridge the space between a room. An exposed roof truss is what it says on the tin – the timber is visible.



These trusses are becoming an increasingly popular interior design choice across a number of residential and commercial buildings for their distinctive appearance.

Why Should You Insulate Exposed Roof Trusses?

Roof trusses are typically insulated using rigid foam or panelised roof sections. There are four main advantages to insulating your exposed roof trusses:

Help Retain Heat

• As with all forms of insulation, insulating your roof trusses will work to reduce the loss of heat in your home. As you’re losing the loft space, which usually helps to keep heat in, this layer of insulation will help trap heat inside the room below, so the air within stays warmer for longer.

Reduce Bills

• Having insulation professionally installed is a great way to prevent yourself from paying for heat that simply gets lost through your roof. Most insulation is designed to be long-lasting too, meaning that your investment will also continue to save you money as you won’t need to replace it as often.

Support The Environment

• Insulation can hugely benefit the environment. By improving the efficiency of your home, you are significantly reducing your carbon footprint. Across Australia, most home electricity is powered via the burning of coal, which is a finite resource.
• Insulating your home works to reduce your energy consumption, which in turn, reduces our reliance on coal.

Year Round Comfort

• Insulating your roof trusses will provide year-round comfort. Insulation will significantly reduce temperature fluctuations across your home, meaning you will be able to better control the temperature level at all times, no matter what the weather is like outside.

Get In Touch With Us

At Leach Trusses, we specialise in timber roof trusses and we work on residential buildings, commercial buildings and many other structures across the Sunshine Coast. We provide and install a range of timber roof trusses – all of which are of the highest quality with the most competitive prices.

If you’re looking to install some exposed roof trusses in your home or commercial building, you should contact us to arrange a calculation and discuss your structural needs and features. To contact us, you can call us directly to get a quote on (07) 5494 1077 or visit our contact page.