How to Insulate your house against the snow?
Insulate your house against the snow and cold weather using secondary glazing.
Secondary glazing helps to keep the cold air outside while increasing the thermal efficiency by reducing the heat loss and keeping the warm air inside. For more advice: Read our top tips below.
We know that it can be a challenge to keep your home warm in winter, with increasing bills for gas and electricity it seems like you are spending way too much money to get the basic necessity.
Secondary glazing is a long term solution to insulate your house in the cold weather without having to spend tons of money. Still not convinced, read our customer success story on how we helped Lindsey Gordon’s to reduce her montly bill upto 40% using secondary glazing products.
1. Secondary Glazing
Secondary glazing is the best solution in the marketplace that is most effective and less costly. With its seamless design, It can be discreetly installed on the inside without affecting the outside appearance.
Bring new order to your life by increasing the warmth, peace and security of your home. With our secondary glazing solution, you solve problems around noise disturbance, heat retention and low security all at once. Plus you save on bills and increase the value of your property.
Secondary glazing can help you stay warm and save you money. secondary glazing improves thermal insulation of existing single-glazed windows by around 65%, approximately 10% more than double glazing achieves.
2. layer Up
We know this is very obvious, but it’s still very effective to keep yourself warm. Wearing multiple thin layers is more effective at keeping your body warm than wearing one thick layer. The layers trap air between them which helps to maintain your body heat. Comfy socks, flannel pants, layered clothing, even fingerless gloves can keep you warm without turning up the heat.
Use blankets or throws handy to wrap around yourself or put over your lap if you are sitting down. When you go to bed, layer your covers as well. Even one blanket over your duvet can help.
3. Layer Floor with Rugs
layer floor with rugs to keep the room warm. You can layer your favorite rug on the floor, which will be a quick fix to keep the warm air in the house.You can also experiment with the style and type of rugs you want to layer the floor with. This will also makesure your feet won’t get cold when you walking around the house. Wool is a natural insulator, so a rug in this material is ideal.
4. Use Thermal Lined Curtains
Thermal lined and heavy weight thick curtains can help you keep the cold outside. The thicker the better, generally, and blackout curtains always do a great job of concealing heat. The Thermal lined curtain works by keeping the full house heat in the morning even if the heater has been switched off all night, you can still wake up to a warm house.
‘Keeping your curtains closed, or investing in a thermal curtain lining can likewise help to prevent warm air from escaping – this trick alone can reduce heat loss by up to 25 per cent,’ says heating expert Jordan.
5. Loft Insulation
Around quarter of your home’s heat may escape through your loft if it isn’t insulated properly. There are plenty of sustainable materials potentially at your disposal such as wool, hemp, cork, and the list goes on. Installed correctly, loft insulation should pay for itself many times over in its 40-year lifetime. By having professionally installed loft insulation, you can help significantly reduce heat loss, making your home much more energy efficient.
6. Wall insulation
Did you know that around one third of all the heat lost in an uninsulated home escapes through the walls. By insulating your walls, you will save energy and cut costs off your heating bill. Cavity wall insulation is quick and inexpensive to fit and comes with a 25 year guarantee. If you don’t have a cavity (in much older homes), solid wall insulation can be fitted either inside your home using solid boards or outside using external cladding.
7. Get a secondary glazing and keep your house warm
Bring new order to your life by increasing the warmth, peace and security of your home. With our secondary glazing solution, you solve problems around noise disturbance, heat retention and low security all at once. Plus you save on bills and increase the value of your property.
Heat-efficient secondary glazing reduces your utility bills, makes your home more comfortable, and minimises your environmental impact and insulate your house against cold weather. With Granada, you achieve long-term performance and energy cost savings, during both cold and warm months. You also benefit from a better Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating.
We’ve put together this handy tool to help you calculate, in real terms, how much money our secondary glazing products could save you both per day and per year. You can check our energy saving calculator.
Why not get in touch with us today, and get your quote for secondary glazing today