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Rather appropriately on Cold Homes Week ministers have been told that reducing the number of cold, leaky houses in the UK should be made a national infrastructure priority. It seems there is now widespread, cross-party support for this. While this...
One key area of retrofit that we are repeatedly asked about by Home Energy Masterplan clients is solid wall insulation (SWI). This isn’t surprising when you consider that there are over 8 million homes in the UK with solid, uninsulated...
We thought it would be interesting to work up a quick graphic of where we’ve carried out our award winning Home Energy Masterplan service throughout the UK. The image below shows the location of all Masterplan assessments carried out since...
This posting is mainly a lot of photos showing some of the detailing around the windows. The key thing to note is that because we have replace the windows, the thicker sash boxes that are needed to accommodate the thicker windows...
The Loft We want to keep the central loft space for storage. Mineral wool does not perform well when crushed as it is the air that is trapped that acts as the insulation. One option would be to put in...