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…
5 easy ways to make your home greener
Today we are going to take a look at 5 of the easiest ways to make your home just a little bit greener – from the quick and easy to the weekend home improvement project these small changes will help…
Thickness of solid wall insulation and U-values you can achieve
According to the planning portal if more than 25% of the solid wall is renovated with solid wall insulation the installation needs to adhere with building regulations. Building regulations stipulate that a solid wall needs to achieve a u-value of 0.3W/m2K…
El Niño and what it means for the UK
Forecast centres all over the world have now declared that an El Niño, the single most powerful force within our climate system, has started in the Pacific. You may think that what happens in the Pacific surely can’t have any real influence…
External Solid Wall Insulation, Barking – East London
When we first visited this 1930’s semi-detached, it looked tired and rundown. The first floor render was chipped and in need of serious repair, while the brickwork on the ground floor was being weathered and in a poor state. From…
Dealing with thermal bridging in external wall installations
Some of our most well informed customers are very keen to ask us how we deal with ‘thermal bridging’, or ‘cold bridging’ as it is sometimes known. This is where heat can bypass the insulation on the walls and reduce…
Can insulation improve the value of your property?
We have already discussed the value of increasing your home’s EPC rating, and we can be sure that more energy efficient homes sell for more compared to those with lower EPC ratings. Solid wall insulation makes one of the biggest increases…
Should I get external wall insulation on cavity walls?
Is retrofitting my uninsulated cavity wall enough? There are obvious reasons for insulating a solid brick property with external insulation. Houses built before around 1930’s were constructed with a single skin of bricks. While nice to look at and very much…
Generous Solid Wall Insulation Grants in Surrey
Do you live in a pebble dashed terraced property in Epsom and would like to get rid of that tired render? Or you perhaps reside in a cold and draughty Victorian detached house in Dorking, and you always wondered what it…