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Retrofit step 1: Insulation
The first step of your retrofit journey is to ensure your home has proper insulation.
How to make your home warmer
To be able to make the home warmer and be able to hold a warmer temperature for longer, it needs to be properly insulated.
A properly insulated home makes it:
- More efficient to run
- More comfortable
- Healthier to live in
- Less expensive to heat as you’ll be using less energy
Changeworks’ recommended fabric first approach to retrofit looks at a deep retrofit of the insulating layer of the home.
This helps to determine the best approach and improve any existing insulation with a view to comfort, and specific to the type of construction used to build your home, as opposed to a generic, one-size fits all approach.
Draughts, cold points and edges – where heat loss tends to be greatest – get specific attention. This can include wall, roof and floor insulation, as well as windows and doors.
It’s important to also look at over-heating risk in summer months to make sure that a warm home in winter doesn’t become an unbearably hot one in warmer weather.
Insulation measures
From the roof over your head to the floor beneath your feet, there are a range of insulation options that can work for different types of homes.
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