How To Prevent Heat Escaping From Your Home

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Heat escapes the home easily when it’s compromised or isn’t well insulated. It’s always worth looking at ways in which to improve heat retainment within your home.

Even with the most modern homes, heat is bound to escape, so it’s good to be proactive with preventative measures to ensure heat remains. With the cost of energy bills, there are plenty of reasons why you should focus on this area of home maintenance.

Here are some helpful tips to prevent heat from escaping from your home and to ensure your property remains energy-efficient throughout the year.

Add floor and wall insulation

Floor and wall insulation is always something that can be helpful when it comes to improving your home’s heat retention. Adding floor and wall insulation can be done in many ways and there are plenty of different types of insulation to choose from.

From foam insulation to underfloor heating, insulation is like adding an extra coat to your home. It helps to lock the heat in, and it can also be useful to help ventilate the home in the summer.

The amount you spend on floor and wall insulation varies but it’s an investment nonetheless that’s worthwhile to put into the home.

Upgrade your windows

Your windows will often last between twenty to twenty-five years depending on the quality of the windows and how well you look after them.

Upgrading your windows is certainly costly but something that is definitely worth doing when trying to improve heat retention in the home. When it comes to choosing windows, you should look at double glazing rather than single glazing.

There’s also the option of triple glazing but double tends to be the go-to and the most affordable.

Reduce air leakage around the doors

Reducing air leakage around the door is helpful in order to keep in the heat that you’ve powered through the home, inside.

There are many ways in which you can reduce air leakage around your doors, albeit making sure the doors fit the frames they’re in properly.

Draught-proofing often serves as the most efficient way of reducing air leakage. It also helps to keep certain rooms warmer by sealing in the heat and keeping out the cold.

Use efficient heating methods

Efficient heating methods are something to consider to help heat the home efficiently and to make it the most affordable.

Some methods include a heat pump, solar heating, electric heating and at the very basic level, adjusting your thermostat.

Replace doors 

Replacing your doors is much like replacing the windows. You’ll want to replace them every so often due to them warping and becoming damaged over time.

By replacing the doors, you’ll find that the home feels warmer as a result and that means less heating needed. That helps reduce the outgoings on your energy bills of course!

When you reduce the amount of heat that escapes your home, you help ensure the home stays warm and costs less to warm as a result.