Heat Pumps Won’t Save You Money – But Insulation Will
Having spent the best part of twenty years in the energy sector – starting out in energy consulting at IBM, moving across to The GreenAge, and now at EWI Store – I’ve watched a long parade of ‘game-changing’ technologies march…
Should You Move House or Improve Your Home?
There is a phrase that keeps popping up in home improvement conversations right now: improve, don’t move. And honestly, it makes sense. A lot of homeowners are looking around at the cost, hassle and uncertainty of moving house and thinking,…
Solid Wall Insulation
With approximately 35% of heat loss from a home occurring through the walls, insulating your solid walls will help to minimise these losses.
External Solid Wall Insulation – Ealing, London
Ealing is a fairly central part of London and most of the houses there were built over 100 years ago, and most of these homes were constructed with solid 220mm brick walls. According to the Energy Saving Trust, uninsulated solid…
External Solid Wall Insulation – Greenford, London
The external 100mm solid wall insulation solution has been installed on this semi-detached property in Greenford, Middlesex. In this case, Mr Smith has benefited a little bit from the Government grant with the rest of the project being self-financed. Many properties…
How Energy Efficient are Homes in London?
London has undergone many waves of house building, with each type of home creating their own energy efficiency problems and areas for improvement. It was 1965, that Building Regulations introduced the first limits on the amount of energy that could…
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…