Retrofitting your home
Retrofitting your home will make it a warmer and more comfortable place to live.
Retrofitting your home brings a host of valuable benefits. It helps create a warmer, more comfortable living space and enhances both the condition and potential resale value of your property.
By cutting down on energy usage, you not only lower your bills but also contribute to carbon savings, supporting a healthier environment.
What’s more, these improvements can lead to better indoor air quality, promoting a cleaner and more pleasant home atmosphere.
Our series of support leaflets gives guides to retrofitting different areas of your home.
Our Retrofit Advisors can provide advice on:
- Energy efficiency and clean heating measures
- Retrofit costs and timelines
- Signposting to Government funded schemes
- Support for harder to reach properties
- Homeowners, landlords and leaseholders
Why make energy improvements to your home?
You may be unsure why you should make retrofitting improvements to your home. Retrofitting helps you to have a warmer, more comfortable and better quality home. There are many types of retrofitting measures available from simple adaptations to your windows to renewable energy measures:
Insulation
There are a variety of insulation measures
that can be installed. Depending on the type
of home and construction of the building,
different types of insulation will be applicable.
Ventilation
There are specific requirements for ventilation
when retrofitting your home. These measures
are put in place to protect both the residents
and the building.
Doors and windows
These are smaller measures that can improve
the thermal comfort of your home.
Low carbon heating
Most local authority-led schemes can install
non-fossil fuel, low-carbon heating systems
only. Heat pumps rely on electricity and there
is now a national push to install these systems.
Renewable energy measures
There are ways to generate your own electricity
at home –commonly by installing solar panels.
How to retrofit your home
Our Retrofit Advisors have developed a series of guides detailing each measure and how these changes can improve the comfort and air quality in your home:
How to retrofit your roof
Because heat rises it is estimated that 25% of the heat in an uninsulated home is lost through the roof. This makes it a high priority retrofitting measure.
How to retrofit your walls
Insulating your walls allows them to retain heat, so when the heating is off walls continue to heat your home, resulting in an even temperature.
How to retrofit doors and windows
By adding simple retrofit changes to your doors and windows you can feel a big difference to your home straight away, keeping the draft out of your home.
How to retrofit your floors
Heat rises so insulating your home properly means you keep more heat inside. Insulating your floor is a low maintenance way of future proofing your home.
Solar photovoltaics
Lower your energy costs by generating renewable energy from your home, find out more.
Heat Pump for your home
Heat pumps only use electricity therefore are a lower carbon option for heating your home than fossil fuels.
Where heat escapes
Most homes don’t have adequate insulation to comfortable, which impacts energy bills and the environment.
Ventilation explained
Ventilation is necessary in buildings to remove the ‘stale’ air and replace it with ‘fresh’ air, supporting a healthy home.
