Double glazing can save homeowners more money on their energy bills than ever before, as 2012 is ready to pick up from where 2011 left off. Last year gas and electricity prices rose to their highest ever price, leaving many more homeowners in fuel poverty and struggling to pay their energy bills.
Experts are suggesting that over the next few months and years energy bills will continue to rise and without adequate insulation you’ll be paying a fortune. So for 2012, why not invest in double glazing and reduce your bills by hundreds of pounds every year.
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When you’re looking to insulate your home and reduce energy bills, double glazing should spring to mind as a worthwhile investment that has long-term potential. Double glazing helps homes cut heat loss, meaning you won’t need to turn up the heating to keep your home warm.
The basic structure of the double glazing unit allows it to retain heat in the property as the two panes of glass can’t feel each other’s temperatures. As they’re separated by a motionless gas – usually Argon, Xenon or Krypton – the heat can’t pass through the spacer.
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The thought of double glazing may cross your mind when the temperature drops and you wonder if your old windows really are as efficient as they once were. Instead of investing in new double glazing or secondary double glazing, a lot of people just turn up the heat on their boiler.
This not only wastes a fortune, but doesn’t solve the initial problem. The warning signs could start as anything. But draughts coming through the windows or condensation in double glazing are sure-fire signs that you need new panes.
To combat the problem you could be looking for double glazing repair companies, but a lot of the time it costs just as much to have the windows resealed. It’s just not worth the extra expense.
As much as 18% of heat is lost through inefficient windows, so a new double glazing unit will retain the warmth in your home. This means your energy bills will be reduced and your carbon footprint cut.
With a lot of people close to or in fuel poverty, double glazing has become an essential home insulation measure. Fuel poverty is when 10% of a home’s income is spent on energy bills. And with all the major energy suppliers raising costs this year, it’s starting to affect more people.
If you’ve decided that your homes needs added insulation and double glazing is right for you, then you have a lot of choice in materials and colours. Remember that a double glazing sash window is possible too.
While uPVC is the standard material most homes use, aluminium frames have a very modern look and wooden frames a traditional one. Everyone’s different and each home will look better with a certain style of window.
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With the rising prices of gas and electricity combined with green taxes, it’s been revealed that one in four homes will struggle to keep warm this winter. There are already five million homes in Britain currently in fuel poverty because of rising energy prices.
The fear is that many households may be forced into the ‘heat or eat’ dilemma ahead of winter. But this needn’t be the case because there are options available to homeowners such as double glazing and house insulation. Double glazing will help you reduce your energy bills at all times of the year, by retaining heat in your home and keeping out the cold air.
As ministers debate the green taxes that could put millions more into fuel poverty, it’s the perfect time to think about insulating your home with double glazed units. You’ll find that not only are your bills reduced, but your home will have less condensation, less noise pollution and increased security.
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So far November hasn’t seen the UK’s temperature fall drastically as expected. It’s usually this time of the year that we turn our heating on and wrap up warm to go outside. But temperatures have stayed above the average, and many people are pointing to climate change as a reason.
Having an environmentally friendly home is important, and climate change is a serious issue. By improving your home with energy efficient products, you’ll be saving the environment and also reducing your energy bills.
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As the chill sets in ahead of winter, many homeowners are investing in energy efficient measures to keep their homes warm in the colder months. Double glazing, loft insulation and draught stripping are three popular methods to keep the cold out.
And so far this year there’s been a rise in the amount of people installing double glazing, which is seen as a very efficient long-term solution for home insulation. With double glazing in place you’ll reduce your energy bills as heat is retained. This also means your carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced, so you’ll be helping the environment and your wallet.
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Britain’s double glazing industry has been given a boost after it was confirmed the Energy Bill would be passed in this country.
The Energy Bill was first mentioned in the spring, and when it’s introduced homes around the UK will be forced to make ‘green’ changes.
And double glazing is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to insulate your home and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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In the winter you waste a lot more money on energy bills to keep your home warm, and you?ll pay even more if your property?s not insulated properly.
In fact, in the colder months you could be spending up to 40% more on energy because the heat is escaping the house though the walls and windows.
In single glazed windows you may be losing 25% of your home?s heat. And the only way to improve this is to improve the unit itself and install double glazing.
Two panes of glass are sealed together, but with a small space in between to insert an energy efficient gas. Argon, xenon and krypton are the most common gases. This unit is then highly effective insulation.
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With winter fast approaching you may want to start looking at double glazing as a viable option to insulating your home.
Over the colder months you?ll need to turn up the thermostat, which will bump up your energy bills. And with the UK?s energy suppliers raising gas and electricity prices, it could prove quite costly.
But by having double glazed windows installed in your property, you?ll reduce heat loss and make your home much more energy efficient.
This won?t just serve a purpose in winter, but also summer, as the hot draughts will be kept out and your home will remain cool.
With improved energy efficiency your home will be emitting less carbon, which is one of the poisonous gases responsible for global warming.
But it?s not just energy efficiency that makes double glazing such a great catch. The two layers of glass stop unwanted noise pollution from outside.
This could be particularly useful if you live near a busy main road or there are traffic works nearby.
Your home will also be safer with double glazing, as burglars are less likely to break in. It?s much harder to gain access through two panes rather than one, and with fantastic inbuilt security features you?re home can be safe as houses.
With double glazing you can also wave goodbye to condensation problems, as the two panes can?t feel each others? temperature because of the spacer in between.
This space is normally filled with an energy efficient gas such as argon, xenon or krypton, with argon proving the most cost-effective.
While double glazing may look like an expensive option, it?ll certainly be worth the investment over a 20+ year life expectancy.
You?ll make back the initial cost in bill savings, and you?ll feel safer in your own home.
For many people, energy efficiency and saving money is the first and most enticing benefit to double glazing. However, if you live in a particularly noisy area; on a main road, city centre or under a flight path, the noise reduction qualities of double glazing may well be the main attraction.
Noise reduction although crucial to many, is in some ways a by-product of all the time and money spent on creating a draft free, energy efficient product.
The use of two sheets of toughened glass, usually gas filled and framed with quality sealants and UPVC, means that the path of sound waves, travelling through the air, from outside to your ears inside, is considerable hampered.
If for whatever reason you cannot install double glazing, perhaps you live in a listed building or a conservation area, secondary glazing could be the solution to your noise pollution problems. In fact secondary glazing is arguably more effective at eliminating noises than standard double glazing, being the glazing of choice for many building designed specifically to reduce excess noise.
