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Different Ways to Insulate Your House

25 October 2016 by Eileen

Different Ways to Insulate Your House. Coming into the winter months, we all get ready to put our heating on and slowly turn it up little by little until we’re comfortably warm during the bitter evenings. The only problem you might have with this, is that your home can naturally lose heat through different features without you even realising.

different ways to insulate your house

It’s important that you take the necessary steps to reduce the heat loss in your home and ensure you and your family remain warm, without wasting heating efforts. There are different things you can do to improve the state of your home for the winter months. Numerous studies have shown that homes can lose heat through particular features such as walls, floors and the roof. Insulating these areas is possibly one of the most important parts of your home, and it can reduce the need for expensive heating or cooling devices.

Insulation is so simple but so effective, and here are just a few ways you can do it in your own home.

Insulating the floor

Insulating under your floorboards allows you to not only save money on your heating bills, but also stop heat escaping. It’s crucial to insulate the floorboards on the ground floor, but you may also want to consider insulating any floors that are above unheated spaces. For example, a bedroom above a garage may benefit from floor insulation, as they could be losing heat this way.

You can also seal the gaps between the floors and the skirting boards to fully eliminate the chance of losing heat.

Insulating the loft

In an uninsulated home, you could lose a quarter of the heat through the roof of your house. Loft insulation can be effective for over 40 years and will consistently save you money over that period of time.

The type of insulation you choose for your loft depends on how you are going to use the space. If the loft is for storage space, you might want to consider insulating between the joists, then laying insulation boards on top, with wooden boarding to top it off.

If the loft is going to be used a living space, you can insulate the roof itself instead of the floor. This is usually done by installing rigid insulation boards between the roof rafters, that are then covered by plasterboard.

Heating your conservatory

Your conservatory can become unbearably cold in the winter, which means you and your family are likely to forget the room exists. There are permanent changes you can make to your conservatory to make sure it is both warm in the winter, and cool in the summer.

A solid tiled roof on your conservatory is the perfect alternative to turning the heating up all winter, leaving you with a room you can use all year round.

Replacing your windows

Windows can lose heat through a number of different ways, whether it’s through the glazing or the frame. Air can leak through the opening frame, or conduction through the frame could be poor. Whatever the reason, there is something you can do about it.

With around 10% of your home’s heat being lost through the windows, you might want to consider investing in high standard, energy efficient windows. Performance driven and a high thermal efficiency, the likes of aluminium windows can protect your home from heat loss, while looking great.

For your home improvement requirements, whether it be a new conservatory roof or energy efficient windows, check out Phil Coppell Limited http://www.philcoppell.co.uk/.

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  1. Anca says

    25 October 2016 at 11:35 am

    Lovely post. I was thinking of a solid roof for the conservatory, it would surely make the conservatory warmer in winter even without heating it up.

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