Do draught excluders work?
Draught excluders are a really simple way to save you money and make your home warmer in winter. Do they really make a difference? And what type of excluder works best? What is the Best Draught Excluder? Anything that blocks…
Energy Efficiency for Flats
So many articles you read online are based around insulating a house. As you may have read in one of our articles a few weeks back – the average home in the UK is a 3 bed semi. This means…
What is a Damp Proof Course (DPC)?
A damp proof course is a layer in the walls of your property that help prevent moisture from move up the walls and into the living area. This is commonly referred to as rising damp. What is rising damp? To…
Buying a house with cavity wall insulation
The majority of post WW2 brick properties has now had cavity wall insulation retrofitted over the past 30 years. Homes built in the last 80 years are usually built with cavity walls, with 2 layers of brick and a gap…
How much energy does my home use?
Estimating how much energy a home uses Domestic buildings are responsible for 30-40% of primary energy use in the UK. When talking about primary energy use, we tend to be referring to electricity and gas, although some properties use oil…
A New Homeowner’s Guide to External Solid Wall Insulation
As more and more properties in the UK are installing external wall insulation these days, you are much more likely to come across it when you are buying a property. There are plenty of things you will want to be…
Cavity Wall Insulation Extraction – A Case Study
More and more consumers are getting in touch with us about cavity wall insulation – you would of thought that the majority would be looking to install the cavity wall insulation bearing in mind we are an energy saving blog,…
10 Reasons To Use Rockwool Insulation In Your Homeome
If you are insulating the walls of your home there are a few different materials you can use. One material that is growing in popularity is Rockwool – which like the name suggests is wool made from molten rock. A…
Natural Ventilation – What you need to know
How do we deal with hot weather in the UK? With increasing frequency of heatwaves caused by global warming there are several accompanying problems for homes such as: Decreased indoor air quality within the houses Decreased thermal comfort of the…
Energy saving housekeeping ahead of winter
About this time of year we always see a bit of a spike in our website traffic. Obviously being an energy saving website, as you might expect we get more website traffic during the cooler winter months than during the…