Monthly Archives: July 2024

Our series of blogs exploring home retrofit hints and tips continues with a look at draught proofing. Read about windows and doors in the first blog here.  Draught-proofing and ventilation are 2 sides of the same coin – Seal Tight, Ventilate Right.   Some ideas to think about: Sealing up the biggest and most obvious draughts is usually the easiest and cheapest way to save on heating bills (think letter boxes, around pipes and cables that run out through the external wall, open fireplaces, putting a carpet with underlay on a suspended timber floor and sealing around the edges)  Some draughts [...]

In the first of a series of blogs to help you with a home retrofit we start thinking about replacing windows or doors. Windows can make a room feel too cold..... or too hot.  The U value of the whole window (Uw) is a measure of total heat loss through the glazing, the frame and the perimeter of the glass.  Uw depends on the size and shape of each window and the amount of glazing relative to the frame.  The g value tells you how much heat from the sun can get in (the lower the better if you have [...]