Wrap Up Your Home For Winter

In winter we all know how important it is to wrap up warm and put off getting the yearly bout of flu or cold as late as possible! However, what many of us will not do this year is make sure that we have wrapped up our home. While your home certainly wont be getting the flu, it will be doing something badly this winter; wasting energy. With energy prices at record highs, there is an even greater emphasis on increasing your home thermal efficiency and ensuring that you are not simply throwing your money away. There are many ways that you can wrap up your home to make it cheaper to heat; this article looks at three of the most useful ways.

Wall Insulation

One of the most obvious ways to increase your homes efficiency in time for winter is by adding an extra layer of insulation in the walls of your home. As the walls make up a large amount of the externally facing structure you can be sure that you are adding a very large extra blanket in order to trap the heat in. Cavity wall insulation is subsidised and can often be completely free to have installed.

Loft Insulation

If you have your walls insulated, the chances are that you are likely to also want to insulate the roof of your property in order to stop the heat escaping as it rises. This type of insulation is great for older properties that do not have any padding underneath the roof tiles. Although lofts are designed themselves to be a barrier to heat transfer, adding specialist materials does have a measurably greater effect and can ensure you are being even more efficient than ever before.

Double Glazing

Once you have completed the shell of your house by installing insulation in the walls and roof there is just one major area left to deal with. Windows take up a surprisingly large amount of your home and as glass is a poor insulator the majority of heat escapes through them. Modern double glazing units are designed to limit the poor effectiveness of glass as an insulator by using two layers with a highly thermally restrictive gas hermetically sealed between them. This means that the glass is not being relied on for its insulating properties; instead it is merely used as a way in which to trap the gas which is the main thermal barrier. When searching for ways to increase thermal efficiency make sure to look at double glazing in Bradford, double glazing in Brighouse and double glazing in Doncaster.