7 Easy Ways to Save Money on Energy Bills Through ...

So You're looking for some easy ways to reduce your energy bills through using insulation and related methods. Well, you've come to the right place.

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Read on for some easy wins to save money on your sky-high energy bills through better insulation.

I just want to start off by saying that insulation is not only good for stopping heat from escaping your house in the winter but great for stopping it from entering during those hot summer days. 

It really does regulate the ambient temperature inside the house making you more comfortable as well as saving you money.

7 Easy Ways to Save Money on Energy Bills Through Insulation

1) Draught-Proof Your Home

Fill any gaps and holes in walls, ceilings, and floors using caulk and expanding foam. For windows and doors use the foam draft strips which you can buy for cheap from Amazon, Wilko, or even supermarkets. 

Be sure not to block necessary vents in windows and walls while draught-proofing because this could mean condensation can't escape causing mold which is a whole other topic in itself. This is especially important in older houses which need to breathe more.

2) Insulate Your Pipework. 

Now, this probably isn't something that most people think about when they think about insulating their home but it's definitely one which can make a big difference in comfort and saving energy.

You should use pipe insulation to stop losing heat from your heating and hot water pipes.

Your boiler won't have to work so hard either then. That's because if you're losing the heat through your radiator pipes and your hot water pipes that means your boiler has to keep working to reheat the water in the pipes. So not only will it mean that your radiators will stay hotter for longer.

It will also mean your boiler doesn't have to work as hard. You can buy whats called self-seal pipe lagging which has adhesive strips on them to close the lagging itself. Its super easy to install and you can buy it from us here at Buy Insulation Online.

If you got a hot water cylinder get yourself a thermal insulation jacket to put over it, this is an easy win. 

You can use radiator reflectors. You put these behind the radiators so that increases the efficiency of your radiators by reflecting more heat back into the room rather than it being absorbed by your walls.

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3) Change To Thermal Curtains Or Thermal Blinds 

Changing your current curtains or blinds to thicker, thermal-lined ones will help you from losing heat through your windows.

So a handy tip to remember when it comes to this is to make sure that you draw your curtains as soon as it gets dark to prevent the heat from escaping through the windows. 

I mean, if you can keep them drawn throughout the day whilst you at work and no one is home, this will help too. This is because the curtains will stop the cold from entering the house via your windows but if it's a sunny day outside, then it's best to leave them open so the sun can radiate heat through your windows deep into the house. 

Fit thick pile carpets with thick, high tog rated wool thermal underlay. 

This is good if the job needs doing anyway but if you haven't got the budget to get all the carpets changed, get yourself some thick rugs and lay them down wherever you can.

4) Loft Insulation

I think the main point on this list that will definitely give you my biggest bang for your buck, so to speak is loft insulation. It's the quickest way to save money on wasted energy, in the form of heat loss for your roof because you can let 25 to 40% of the heat lost through your loft space If it's uninsulated 

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Loft insulation on a roll is cheap to buy but also relatively easy to install. That is, it doesn't require any special tools or know-how, just the resolve to perhaps do what in all honesty isn't a very nice job at all because you will get covered in fibers, etc. 

At the end of the day thought it's a one-off job. So once you've gone and done it, you can be safe in the knowledge that you've something that's a cost you about 300 to 500 quid is gonna save you thousands, maybe even £10,000's over your lifetime in the property, and also make your life a lot more comfortable.

You can make the loft insulation installation easier by yourself by 

• Having someone pass you the roles through the loft hatch to you and deeper into the loft space 
• Wearing disposable coveralls, along with a decent dust mask. 
• Doing it in. The colder weather helps close the pores on your skin, allowing fewer fibers in and also meaning you won't get as hot in the overalls.
• And also a little tip that I used to do when I was insulating loft spaces and whatnot Is putting talcum powder on your uncovered skin that will help protect the fibers entering your skin. 
• Once the job is done, having a piping hot shower afterward will help open the pores up to release any of the fibers are stuck in there

Knauf loft insulation produces a roll called Loft Roll 44. These are what are called combi-cut loft rolls which are pre-perforated. This means that they are pre-cut common widths for between joists or used uncut as full-width rolls, increasing install speed. 

They are made with Knauf's Ecose technology, which is soft to the touch and generates very low levels of dust and volatile organic compounds. They have Eurofins Gold certification for indoor air quality. Obviously, this will make the job much more comfortable if you use 

Just to add that you have to be very careful when working up in the loft not to stand on any plasterboard ceilings otherwise you might fall through which is extremely dangerous.

Stand on joists and preferably have some ply or boards that you can span and walk on

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5) Wall Insulation

Most of the heat in a house is lost through uninsulated or poorly insulated walls, 35% or more. I would say that most houses have some insulation in the walls, but it's highly likely to be insufficient. 

Now as far as DIY goes, the only easy options that are available to insulate walls are by using maybe some thermal wallpaper or there are paint additives that you can buy which supposedly improve the thermal. 

I wouldn't say they were massively effective but it's better than nothing and in addition to the steps given previously it will all add up to make some decent savings on your energy bills.

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6) Insulation Grants

There are grants out there available for homeowners and renters who are in receipt of benefits.

So if you own your own home or you rent from a private landlord, and somebody who lives in the property qualifies or has benefits

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Owning your own home (or renting from a private landlord in some cases) AND...

People living at the property are eligible for certain benefits, such as pension credit, universal credit, child benefit, carer's allowance, and disability living allowance. 

In Conclusion

So just to summarise the 7 points are

1. Draught Proof your home 
2. Use pipe lagging to prevent heat loss from radiator pipes etc.
3. Put Thick Thermal Curtains or Blinds up
4. Put Thermal underlay, Thick Carpets or Rugs Down
5. Make sure your loft space is insulated
6. Insulate walls as much as possible.
7. Check to see if you are eligible for free insulation grants

Obviously, there are lots more ways we do have a blog on our website with handy how-to guides that you can find out more about here.

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Further, reflective surfaces only work if there is an air void next to them. A reflective surface has a lower emissivity, meaning a hot mirror polished silver object will warm you less when you sit next to it than a matte black one will. If you are the source of heat then a silver shiny object will bounce back more heat than a matte black one will. The gap between you and the object is vital for the reflection to work. If you're using insulated plasterboard (ca't see why you would) then you need a void behind the silver part to get the benefit, but the plasterboard insulation is geared towards providing the benefit to the room which the plasterboard faces, which is why you wouldn't use it if you were insulating the underside of floorboards. Save money on the insulated plasterboard and buy thicker rigid board. Also bear in mind that heat rises, and your floor is not your heat emitter, so insulating the underside of the boards isn't appreciably going to make your floor feel warmer because nothing is warming the floorboards up (heat in the room.. it rises, and floorboards are at the bottom).
You'll have to stand for quite a while before the heat from your feet warms the boards to the point where you can appreciate the fact that the underside of them is insulated. Thus arises the earlier comment about installing a membrane to stop draughts, which your feet will feel and perceive directly as the floor being cold

Although makes me wonder why rigid insulation that's used going under a screed nearly always has a reflective surface.

It's so rare to find non-foiled insulation (due to lack of demand/numbers) that buying in foiled is pretty much the only realistic option unless you opt for seconds quality boards - which are great to use under screed and pads because the screed takes out any unevenness, warp, misshapenness etc that makes them second quality in the first place

The foiling doesn't contribute significantly to the cost of the board in the volumes with which it is used, added to the fact that it's one of the most abundant elements in the earth's crust (just a pig to extract)

Heat is transmitted in one of 3 ways: convection, conduction or radiation. Ignoring convection, radiant heat crosses space/void/gases but upon reaching a solid object transfers through it via conduction (the surface is warmed, then the heat spreads through the solid by making molecules vibrate, knocking into each other more and transferring the heat energy like balls on a snooker table cause each other to move when striking). As the heat reaches the other side of the solid and again encounters a void it converts back to radiant heat to cross the space. Transfer by radiation is rather ineffective and this is how insulations work; foams that inhibit air movement - reducing convection, having bubbles with thin membranes - inhibiting conduction and providing lots of tiny voids that (ineffective) radiation must traverse

If a foiled board has an air gap, the radiant heat is reflected back. If it has no void then it's just part of the solid - the concrete molecules vibrate the aluminium molecules directly by conduction

As noted earlier, radiation is rather ineffective. Those radiant halogen heaters heat you and make you feel warm rather than heat the room. Because radiant heat is ineffective if someone offered me 25mm foiled kingspan or 50mm nonfoiled kingspan for the same price I'd go for the 50 because there's no way the foil would compensate for the loss of half the insulating material. It's also why those space foil insulations were a jar of snake oil