Best most economic and energy efficient way to insulate a house?
approx. price of each way to insulate.
approx. total price.
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don't know of price, expect it is quite dear actually, but on Grand Designs I saw them use sheeps wool! Not sure where you get it from, obviously a sheep, but www.bbc.co.uk would probably have a link to the programme with details about it.
very warm, very eco friendly.
Build a house into the side of a hill.
Blue Jean Insulation: Go to this site and check out the info.
http://www.aip.org/dbis/stories/2006/151...
It has a video and everything including contact info to ask questions.
Some power companies such as British Gas will arrange local subcontractors to put in loft insulation to a premises for free if certain criteria are fulfilled (benefits,low income etc).
It may be worth contacting "warm front" a company providing grants to improve domestic energy efficincy.
For your home to be more energy efficient think about a boiler change as you will save money in the long term.You can check out various companies offering grants online.
For the loft use glass insulation 150mm thick
For the windows - double glazing
For the doors - draft excluder, including the letterbox
For the walls - on a mature house you will need to get insulation pumped into the walls - rock wool is best
For the floors carpet is best.
Do not forget if you put extra loft insulation down do not put any under the water tank if you have one up there, if do it will freeze and burst. also, make the water pipes are well lagged.
With Sod as your roof.
Old construction? Depends on the specifics of the house. There are plenty of experts who will evaluate your house for you.
New construction? Build extra thick walls and increase the thickness of ordinary fiberglass insulation. More insulation in the attic. Be sure to "wrap" the house and tape all seams. Energy efficient windows, multiple panes and low emissivity coatings. Again, there are experts in this.
Costs are variable depending on the particular house.
Hi The most efficient insulate by far is polystyrene. Try this pour boiling water in to a cup or a glass, and a polystyrene cup and see which one you can hold the longest ,[ without holding the handle on the cup]. If its a new home you are building put sheets of it in the walls under the floors and in the loft, older homes you can still put it under wooden ground floors and in the loft. now do a web search for Polystyrene building products .
Sorry but it depends on the type of construction (how the house was built). Retro insulation varies accordingly. Ask the question again but this time describe your house construction!
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- NY Times,
The Zero-Energy Solution
Published: May 20, 2007
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It's not insulation, but this cut my electricity bill by almost 50%.
The company only advertises a 25% reduction though. It also came with a 6 month money back guarentee.
Build the house with adobe. Time tested and very efficient. Check out the various Earthship designs. If it's good enough for Dennis Weaver... [MacCloud]
I have seen an example of using bundles of hay and sealing them with concrete or concrete blocks stuffed with hay and sealed. Hay is not very expensive. But I've always wondered if non-recyclable trash couldn't be used in the same way. Have you seen any old houses made out of bottles? That works too but you have to do an awful lot of drinking to get enough of them and then you might not remember why you saved the bottles in the first place. Burp!
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