What difference does insulation make?
Fuel prices are rocketing. Paying to stay warm and healthy is becoming a very real worry for many families. The energy providers are telling us that the days of what they are calling "cheap fuel" are over. This isn't a blip - fuel prices are going up and they're not coming back down. They may come down a little from time to time but the overall trend is up.
Alongside rising fuel costs we're faced with two major world-wide problems. Firstly, we're running out of traditional fuels - this maybe won't be felt during our lifetime but we need to make sure that we don't leave a horrible legacy for the future. Secondly, we're hurting the planet - the experts are telling us that if we don't reduce harmful emissions the planet will be unrecognisable in the not-too-distant future.
A properly insulated home will use much less energy than an uninsulated one. According to The Energy Saving Trust, insulating the wall cavities in your home can save around £160 per year. Again according to EST, insulating an uninsulated loft can save around £205 per year and around 1 tonne of CO2. That's every year - so if you spend £200 on loft insulation in a typical uninsulated loft, it will have paid for itself after the first year and will save you around £205 every year from then on and even more as fuel prices rise. That's got to make sense.
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Why Solas?
We are a community business based in Dumbarton and Greenock. Over the past 21 years we've helped over 80,000 families in central Scotland to save money and increase their comfort by insulating their homes - in many cases free and in many other cases at a greatly reduced price. We've accessed many millions in grants and subsidies for our clients from utility companies and the Government's Warm Deal Programme.
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