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…