Smart Homes Scheme – £6,000 Grants for SWI
[Update: This scheme has now ended. For the latest information on available funding, contact your local council.] Smart Home Scheme Grants of £6,000 for SWI The new GDHIF scheme has just been announced offering grants of up to £4,000 for solid…
External Wall Insulation versus Internal Wall insulation
With the re-launch of the GDHIF, there has been a lot of renewed interest in insulating solid walls in properties. There are two ways to insulate this type of wall – either internal wall insulation or external wall insulation. If…
What does external solid wall insulation look like?
What does External Solid Wall Insulation look like? Solid wall insulation can be a big investment – it is not something that should be rushed in to. You want to know as a customer that a job which will cost…
What is Thermal Bridging?
What is Thermal Bridging You may have come across this term if you have ever spoken to a builder about insulation – thermal bridges are essentially places in the home where insulation is not continuous and so heat loss is…
What are the alternatives to solid wall insulation?
Is solid wall insulation still an option? As you may now know, the grants for solid wall insulation have disappeared, since the government closed the GDHIF scheme very abruptly a few weeks back. The GDHIF grant was extremely generous –…
Vacuum Insulation Panels
If you read our blog the other week, you will be aware that there are three different modes of heat transfer – convection, conduction and radiation – if you missed it, you can read it here! Both convection and conduction…
Get big grants for wall insulation across London!
Interested in getting your walls insulated? Did you know that 35% of heat is lost through the walls of a property! By insulating the walls, you can dramatically decrease the amount of heat loss, and in doing so you should…
Thermal liner – a cheaper way to insulate walls?
Options to insulate the walls of your home Up to 35% of heat in the home is lost through the walls, therefore insulating them will massively lower your energy bills. If your home was built after 1935, the chances are…
Insulating a period property in London
Why a period property is so expensive to run On our day-to-day basis (with some 10,000 people visiting the website per day), we tend to get asked plenty of questions about ways to improve the energy efficiency of pre-1930 properties up…