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The UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe, with draughts and leaks across many of the currently existing structures. Draughts contribute to colder homes during winters, making heating expensive and difficult. During winters, humidity or temperature differences lead to condensation, and moisture absorption and cause damp patches and difficulty in keeping the property warm.

Similarly, summers bring rising temperatures and heat waves, with draughts allowing heat to enter without restriction, causing excessive heat gain within the structure. These extreme conditions make homes ill-equipped for both seasons, leaving many homes unprepared for local and global climate changes due to poor maintenance and insufficient energy efficiency.

Taking such situations into account, it is more important now than ever to get your property inspected to determine what modifications can be made to reduce your energy bills and subsequent emissions.
To cope with the demands of varying climates, investing in proper insulation becomes a major step toward achieving energy efficiency.

What is Insulation?

The UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe, with draughts and leaks across many of the currently existing structures. Draughts contribute to colder homes during winters, making heating expensive and difficult. During winters, humidity or temperature differences lead to condensation, and moisture absorption and cause damp patches and difficulty in keeping the property warm.

Similarly, summers bring rising temperatures and heat waves, with draughts allowing heat to enter without restriction, causing excessive heat gain within the structure. These extreme conditions make homes ill-equipped for both seasons, leaving many homes unprepared for local and global climate changes due to poor maintenance and insufficient energy efficiency.

Taking such situations into account, it is more important now than ever to get your property inspected to determine what modifications can be made to reduce your energy bills and subsequent emissions.
To cope with the demands of varying climates, investing in proper insulation becomes a major step toward achieving energy efficiency.

Uninsulated structure

Heat loss within a building happens every day, but during winter months or in other colder environmental conditions, this heat loss escalates. For an uninsulated property, there are no thermal barriers between the exposed external and unexposed internal surfaces.

During summer, when heat comes in contact with the exposed surface, it is transferred to the adjacent unexposed surface easily through conduction, convection, and radiation, causing excessive heat gain and an uncomfortable temperature.

Now if we consider this rate of heat loss within an uninsulated home, through multiple surfaces such as attics, roofs, walls, etc, it means the interior temperature can be really hot during summer and excessively cold during winter months.