Improve your insulation and minimize heat loss
- heatingatewayuk
- May 1, 2014
- 2 min read
Insulation and draught proofing protects your home against excess heat in summers and cold in winters. Insulation even helps in making your home free from sound pollution. Many homes especially in UK are so badly insulated that a lot from our savings are spent on managing insulations. Improving your central heating can help but you may still end up with a cold house at the end because of the heat being wasted.
A lot of money can be saved by investing in better insulation to your loft and walls especially for older properties which usually have warned out heating systems and insulation.
Through Green deal and ECO deals you can also have a new insulation for your property if you qualify.
Insulating your home
No matter how efficient and up to mark your heating system is, it still won’t keep you warm and run economically unless your home is properly insulated. This case is true for old-aged properties that are rarely insulated to the best modern standards. Weak insulation allows the heat to escape and cold air to enter, making your home cold and uncomfortable. Reviewing your insulation is a vital step for anyone wishing to improve energy efficiency.
Types of insulation techniques
Walls
The walls of a poorly insulated building may be losing about 35% of all heat put into it. , wall insulation has to be considered carefully because walls are important in keeping moisture out of the house
If your home has cavity walls, an effective way to increase its thermal efficiency is to have cavity wall insulation installed. The insulating material is then pumped or blown into the wall cavity. Materials commonly used are mineral wool fiber, urea formaldehyde foam and expanded polystyrene beads for insulating home walls.
Loft Space
The most common area of high heat loss is the roof space of the building. About one third of heat in the house is lost through the loft.
Draught Reduction
Air flow is an essential requirement in and outside of a building we live and work in or else it would be difficult for us to breathe. Rapid ventilation of cold air in a building is known as draught.
Draughts can cause uncomfortable conditions around the building eventually causing waste of fuel by reducing the air temperature and increasing the amount of air the system has to heat beyond that which is necessary.
Double Glazing of glass:
A common practice to improve insulation is by placing another layer of glass on the inside of a window to trap the air, this practice is called as Double glazing. If air moves freely inside the windows it can conduct heat across the inner space and reduce insulation, custom made sealed double glazed windows are available which have vacuum inside them.
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