| Maximising the efficiency of your heating system is | | | | loft it will pay for itself in smaller heating bills. |
| one method of ensuring of reducing the costs of | | | | But there are other places heat escapes too. Badly |
| your heating bill and cutting down on the | | | | fitting doors are a prime cause and in older homes |
| environmental impact of heating your home. | | | | this is more difficult to prevent. Problems often occur |
| However, there is another method which is just as | | | | because door frames and walls slightly drop over the |
| effective at reducing costs and increasing warmth | | | | years and doors themselves expand and contract in |
| around the house. | | | | the summer and winter. But draught excluders are |
| Heating your home is as much about stopping heat | | | | easily fitted around frames and can prevent any heat |
| from escaping as it is about maximising the output of | | | | from escaping and the cold air from coming in. |
| your radiators and heaters. By reducing heat escape, | | | | Doors have other areas that let draughts in too. |
| you use less energy in heating the rooms. | | | | Letter boxes are very rarely air tight and not only |
| The number one place to start with insulation of a | | | | does the heat gush out but the cold air comes |
| home is the loft. This is not because insulation is | | | | through. Draught excluders for letter boxes are rare |
| unsightly, it's because heat rises. Preventing the rising | | | | but they are available. Letter box draught excluders |
| heat from escaping through the roof, is one way of | | | | are definitely worth considering in older homes with |
| ensuring your home stays warmer for less energy. | | | | single doors. |
| Letterbox Draught Excluder | | | | Also a common area for draughts in older homes is |
| Letterbox Draught Excluder | | | | the chimney. Originally designed for smoke to escape |
| Loft insulation is neither expensive or difficult and is | | | | the provide an chute for all the hot air to rush out. If |
| perhaps the most important eco friendly product. | | | | the fireplace is not in use a chimney balloon will |
| For a few hundred pounds you can pay somebody | | | | expand in the chimney to prevent any hot air |
| to do it for you and by having a properly insulated | | | | escaping and cold air coming in. |
