Insulate your home to eliminate heat loss and counterbalance the energy hike price
Never has there been a more pertinent time to address heat loss in our homes. With the looming energy price hikejust a fewweeks away, we need to ensure that our homes retain as much energy as possible. The government is encouraging homeowners to embrace heat pumps and alternative energy sources but in short,we should ensure that any heat generated stays firmly within the home and isn't seeping out of the windows, through the floorboards or through the roof. And the problem of heatloss is even more acute in older homes, which impacts the UK in particular given that more than 25% of our housing stock is over 125 years old.
On 1 October 2024 energy prices will rise for most homeowners by around 10%.The government has given the green lightfor the standing charge and unit prices to increase. In effect our energy prices have nearly doubled since pre-crisis rates. *
Insulation specialist,Mitchell and Dickinson,offers a sustainable and robust approach to ensuring our homes are fully draught-proof and as thermally efficient as can be with products and services such asCosyGlazing,- a unique secondary glazing system - and the installation of sheep's wool under floors and cold lofts. The company also specialises in insulating sloping ceilings, which are often a feature of older properties traditionally poorly constructed.
Mitchell & Dickinson specialises in period and listed properties and these houses often have beautiful but inefficient to single glazed, draughty old windows and doors and inadequate insulation and can tackle the key areas where heatloss occurs in a period property as illustrated in the diagram below.
We cannot ignore the energy price hike but let's ensure we are not turning up the heating unnecessarily to accommodate draughts and ineffective windows.
For further information, please visithttps://mitchellanddickinson.co.uk/
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* Source-Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis
Editor's note
Mitchell & Dickinson specialises in delivering bespoke insulation solutions for period homes and listed buildings in the UK.Products include a unique, advanced secondary glazing system known asCosyGlazinghigh-qualitydraught proofing for windows and doors, and specialist sheep's wool insulation for underfloor, sloping ceilings and lofts which will greatly improve the energy savings, soundproofing and ventilation. Mitchell & Dickinson's insulation solutions are installed on site, by expert craftsmen all of whom are direct employees and fully trained in house. The company also offers restoration services which often precede the installation of its products.
One of the founding principles of Mitchell & Dickinson is to cut carbon; the carbon savings that result from the work carried out are 50 times greater than the carbon footprint which ensures Mitchell & Dickinson is a carbon-negative company. So far,over 100,000 tonnes of CO2e has been saved since Mitchell & Dickinson started insulating homes in 2010, which equates to 800,000 flights to Paris, or 50,000 cars taken off the road for a year.
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