Does insulating your walls and loft help you save energy

Does your house loose too much heat during the cold season? If it does, you can fix this problem by insulating your walls and loft to save energy. Insulated walls and lofts usually trap in heat, preventing it from getting out of the house. This energy saving venture will help you save fuel costs amounting to over £160 per year.

When you insulate your home, you not only help conserve energy, but you also reduce heating cost. Loft insulation helps keep heat in the house and at the same time use as little carbon dioxide as possible. Properly insulated lofts will be effective in energy conservation for as long as 40 years. After this, you can top up your loft insulation to continue enjoying the comfortable warmth in your house. It is very easy to install loft insulation; therefore there is absolutely no need for you to contract someone else to do the job for you.

Any type of loft can be insulated to conserve energy. It is easier to insulate a loft that is easily accessible and dry. You can use blown insulation for lofts that are not that easy to access. Blown insulation requires a professional to do it but it only takes a few hours.

Most of the homes in UK built after 1920 usually have a wall cavity. This is the space between the two walls in a house. Insulated cavity walls prevent a large amount of heat from escaping from the house. This is a natural way of energy conservation. You will not have use carbon dioxide emitting forms of heat conservation, hence ensuring that you are not polluting the environment. Insulating your cavity walls will help you save up to 15% of your home heating costs and also minimize the amount of carbon emitted from your house to the atmosphere. In other words, you will be playing your small part in conserving nature.

Houses built before the 1920s usually have single solid walls. These are worse heat conservatives than cavity walls. However, they are possible to insulate the wall, either externally or internally. Solid wall insulation will help you save an incredible amount of £400 which you would have otherwise used to pay heating bills in a year. Apart from energy conservation, insulating your solid walls also helps you save over 2 tonnes of carbon dioxide within a year.

Loft and wall insulation is a cost effective means of saving energy. You will only have to part with an average of £250 as the initial insulation cost and thereafter you will never have to worry about paying for costly heating services. For more wall and loft insulating services and information, you can contact your nearest Energy Saving Trust advice centre.

Lee Lazarus is an experienced online journalist. He has written this article on behalf of LocalQuoter, a home improvement quote comparison site. Compare Loft conversion quotes, Double glazing costs and driveways.