Of the energy that you are buying to heat your home, it escapes roughly as follows:

Insulation measures to your home generally offers the quickest, most hassle-free and cheapest ways to dramatically reduce your energy bills and maximise the energy efficiency of your home.

We will be happy to survey your current insulation, advise you what improvements you could make, secure the best grants available for you and arrange installation of any measures you choose from start to finish.  Call us on a completely non-obligation basis on 07703 412 559 if you wish to discuss this further.

How well insulated each element (eg walls, windows, etc) of the perimeter is, is indicated by its 'U' value (Watts lost per SqM, per Degree Celsius difference between inside and outside surface).

Roof (26% of heat loss) - 

U value examples

Sloped roof with loft space uninsulated - U = 2.6.

With 25mm glass fibre quilt - U = 0.99

With 100 mm glass fibre quilt - U = 0.3

This means that a roof with 100mm insulation loses only 0.3/2.6 = 11.5% of the heat of the same roof without any insulation.  Thus installing loft insulation can reduce heat lost through the roof by roughly 90%. Money saved is high and installation cost is low so this is a very cost effective measure which could pay for itself even in the first year.

Grants are available for loft insulation making it even cheaper.

Wall (33% of heat loss) -

U value examples

Solid brick wall (225mm) - U = 2.2

Unfilled cavity wall - U = 1

Insulated cavity wall - U = 0.6

Internal insulated wall - U = 0.2

Walls can be insulated internally, externally or in the cavity in cavity walls.  Whether these options are possible depends on whether the wall is a cavity wall, whether you are happy to lose some space internally with internal wall insulation, or whether local planning rules will allow external wall insulation.

Internal

This is effected by fixing insulation boards (rigid foam stuck on to plasterboard) of between 50 - 100mm deep to the interior surface of your exterior walls.  As indicated by the U value examples above, this could reduce heat loss to roughly 10% of a solid brick wall without any insulation - i.e. you could reduce heat loss through your walls by roughly 90%.

As this insulation reduces the space in your room, you may just choose to apply it to particularly large rooms, or where a room is a longer narrow shape and you don't mind losing a bit of length at one end.  It a fairly simple and quick procedure to fit the boards, but will require plaster skimming and painting afterwards so is somewhat disruptive.

External

We can survey your property for suitability of external wall insulation, and instruct either of the two largest insulation companies in the UK to carry out the work if you wish to go ahead.

Cavity

We can survey your property for suitability of cavity wall insulation, and instruct either of the two largest insulation companies in the UK to carry out the work if you wish to go ahead.

Grants are available for wall insulation making it even cheaper.

Window/Door/Drafts (33% of heat loss) -

U value examples

Single glaze window - U = 5

Double glaze window (12mm gap) - U = 2.1

Grants are available for window insulation making it even cheaper. 

Floor insulation (8% of heat loss) -