News Source : Metro
Did you know there are huge pots of grant money you can potentially claim to have your home insulated – regardless of your income?
What’s more, by claiming a grant that can reduce the cost of home insulation by up to 60%, you can slash the carbon emissions of your home and save yourself 100s of pounds on your energy bills too.
The government has committed to cut CO2 emissions by a third in the next decade and has tasked the energy companies to help by subsidising the cost of home insulation – a properly insulated home will cut its emissions and therefore its fuel bills by more than a fifth.
To arrange a free, no obligation survey and find if you can claim an insulation grant regardless of income click here
While it may be hard to get excited about insulation, fitting it into your loft or having the cavity walls of your home insulated are the lowest-cost, highest value forms of saving energy.
Around 20% of heat is lost through a loft that is not properly insulated, while most houses built since the 1920s have a cavity in their walls – having that gap filled can further reduce your energy bills by up to 35% per year. That means you could have potential savings of up to 55% by having both cavity wall and loft insulation fitted.
As long as your house can be insulated, anyone can claim a grant to help pay the cost of both loft and cavity wall insulation. Depending on the size of your house, the cost to you will be from £149 – £199 for each type of insulation fitted, with the rest of the bill being grant aided. Even better, your outlay will pay itself off in less than a year thanks to the savings you will make on your heating bills.
A surveyor can visit your home for a free, no-obligation survey to see if it can be insulated.
If it can, they will claim the grant for you, arrange for the work to be carried out and give you a 25 year independent guarantee on the work and materials.
Insulate your home
• Cut your carbon emissions by one fifth
• Slash your energy bills
• Recover the cost of insulation in less than a year thanks to reduced heating bills
• No paperwork to fill in – the grant is claimed for you
• 25 year guarantee
• Accredited trades people
• Cavity wall insulation from £149
Goverment grants for energy saving systems are becoming very widespread around the world. Ireland has a scheme run by SEI, called the “Home Energy Saving Scheme” aimed at householders. Under this scheme you can get 4000 euro per house for implementing an External Wall Insulation System.
By: Michael on September 4, 2009
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