Insulating Your Home For Winter

Energy efficiency is ever more important with today's rising energy costs. Many homes in the UK can benefit from upgrading and installing insulating materials throughout the home.

The upcoming Green Deal scheme has been provided to help homeowners improve their energy ratings for the home by providing "free" insulation for loft, roof, solid walls and cavity walls.

Insulation Installers will be able to improve your home's heating and reduce losses of warmth by either topping up you insulation or if you have no insulating materials in your loft or walls, an accredited installer can provide a service to install it through a grant scheme.

For further information about grants for Cavity Wall Insulation to prevent heat loss through cavity walls using eps beads, blown fibre or foam injected materials.

If you are losing heat through the roof then it is worth considering topping up your Loft Insulation to prevent warmth escaping into the attic area.

Finally if your house has a solid wall construction, then these external walls can also be insulated with materials to prevent heat loss, find out more about Solid Wall Insulation.