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Find the best insulation for your home
Do you have a loft? Then this is the place to start.
Loft Insulation, professionally installed to the right thickness, will reduce your home’s heat loss by 30%.
Was your house built between 1930 and 1980? If so, it should have a cavity wall (a gap between your inner and outer wall).
Cavity wall insulation can drastically reduce the heat that passes through your walls, keeping you cooler in summer as well as warmer in winter.
No cavity walls but thinking of redecorating? Achieve
internal insulation with a flexible thermal lining, Internal Rigid Thermal Boards, insulating plaster or micro-bead insulating paint.
Solid rendered walls?
External insulation or panelling, applied to the outside of a solid wall, can reduce the amount of heat traversing your walls by 60%. This is a big job, but it will bring big savings.
Loft Insulation
Simple, cheap and effective
Loft insulation is the single most effective way of reducing your heating bills and keeping your home warmer. Within a couple of years, your investment will have paid for itself – after that, you just keep saving energy, money and doing your bit to reduce greenhouse gases. The ideal thickness for loft insulation is 270mm (11 inches), so if yours is only 50mm (2 inches) thick, you could benefit from more. Simply by adding a layer of 200mm (8 inch) thick insulation, you can save up to 20% of your heating costs.
Professionally installed
When you insulate your loft with a grant-approved installer, you not only get a subsidy, you also get current standards. And it’s not only about installing the right thickness: in compliance with industry standards, you will get a boarded passage to enable you to enter the loft safely; your pipework and water tanks will get insulated along with the loft hatch; and you will also be issued with a certificate confirming exactly what has been done. You can rely on our inspectors to ensure that nothing is overlooked.
This means that your property’s energy rating – a key part of the new Home Information Pack – will not lose precious points.
High-performance materials
Spun glass fibre is the most cost-effective insulation material with excellent thermal properties and a long life. You can also install natural alternatives such as sheep’s wool and specially treated re-cycled paper, although the cost of these alternatives is much higher.
Book a free survey now - Please call us on 0800 0567 180 or book on-line for one of our surveyors to come around and advise you further. It’s free, so you have nothing to lose.
Cavity Wall Insulation An investment in your home that you will not regret
Cavity wall insulation is the next most cost-effective way of reducing heat loss, after loft insulation. It is a simple solution, which can reduce energy passing through your walls by up to 60%. Badly insulated walls lose more heat than any other part of a home and could be costing you up to an extra £200 a year in wasted energy. By fitting cavity wall insulation, not only will you cut energy waste year after year, but you will also boost your property’s energy rating – a key part of the new Home Information Pack – and therefore your home’s value. All you need is a cavity wall
Cavity walls are common in the majority of homes built after 1930. You can tell if your home has cavity walls by measuring the thickness at any door or window: cavity walls are at least 300mm (12 inches) thick and are comprised of an outer and an inner wall, separated by a small air gap. Another way that you can tell if you have cavity walls, is through the brick pattern.
Cavity wall – bricks all the same ...... Solid wall – Mix of short and long bricks
Easy, quick and guaranteed to last
Following a survey and quote, the installers will complete the work in half a day. The work involves drilling holes in the mortar between the bricks and, using a special machine, pumping insulation material into the cavity. No nasty chemicals are involved, since spun glass fibre is inert. It feels and looks just like cotton wool and offers excellent thermal properties. The installers work from the outside; there is minimal disruption and no mess. You can rely on our inspectors to ensure that nothing is overlooked. For your peace of mind, a 25-year CIGA guarantee covers the work.
Insulate while you decorate
If, like most London properties, your home has solid walls, you can insulate these from the inside. Since this inevitably involves working in your home, you should consider doing so as part of a broader redecoration project. You can also means that you can concentrate on the coldest rooms first. You can combine a number of options to maximise the insulation:
Flexible thermal linings are insulation on a roll specifically for use in solid wall homes, mansard roofs and dormer ceilings. The lining is 10mm thick and supplied in rolls one metre wide, 12.5 metres long. The material is made from a natural product – latex - in an open and closed cellular construction and has a durable fibreglass face that can be decorated with emulsion, wallpaper or even tiled.
Internal Rigid Thermal Boards are made of plasterboard with a backing of insulation. Thermal boards, 60mm thick, are fixed to the wall surface using continuous ribbons and dabs of adhesive, plus additional mechanical fixings.
Insulating plaster – This is a cement-based render coating, containing expanded polystyrene beads and other additives which form an excellent thermal barrier. This is applied in 3 coats to a total thickness of 40mm, topped with maintenance-free Acrylic or Silicone thin coat decorative render finish.
Insulating paint – This comes in the form of a micro-bead additive, mixed with almost any paint/coatings and applied as normal to any internal surfaces.
External Wall Insulation
Your solid alternative. If you have solid walls, you do not have to go through the disruption of redecorating the inside of your home. You can fit insulation to the outside of the wall. This can be either panels or an energy saving plaster, similar to that used for internal wall insulation. Either way, you get a rendered finish, which can be painted-over. The work takes 2-3 days. Since you are insulating your home from the outside, you do not need to be home during the work.
Better insulation. External wall insulation is the most effective option for solid walls and is comparable to cavity wall insulation in terms of thermal effectiveness. It will keep your home warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
An investment for the future. Fitting external insulation to your walls is a major investment (typically £3,000 to £4,000). In addition to having a more comfortable home, you should save £200-£300 annually and significantly boost the energy rating of your home - and hence its attractiveness to potential buyers. This produces a rate of return of 5%, which is comparable to the net rate achieved in a savings account.
Book a free survey now
Please call us on 0800 0567 180 or book on-line for one of our surveyors to come around and advise you further. It’s free, so you have nothing to lose.
