Millions of UK homes are losing heat and wasting money every year due to inadequate wall insulation. This not only drives up energy costs but also makes your property less comfortable. Whether you're a homeowner, landlord, or letting agent, ensuring your property is properly insulated is crucial. Fortunately, you could qualify for Free Home Insulation through GBIS, a government-backed scheme designed to help reduce energy costs and improve comfort.
At Cwtch Energy, we help UK homeowners and landlords access government funding to cover the cost of cavity and solid wall insulation. This simple upgrade can dramatically reduce heat loss, lower your energy bills, and make your property more appealing to tenants. Best of all, it won’t cost you a penny.
As a landlord or letting agent, ensuring your properties are energy-efficient is not just about reducing costs—it's about future-proofing your investments and enhancing your service offerings. With the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) set to tighten, rental properties will soon need an EPC rating of C by 2027 and B by 2030. Now is the time to act and secure free wall insulation for your properties, ensuring you stay ahead of these regulations while also improving tenant satisfaction.
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Cavity or solid wall insulation not only makes your property more comfortable but also provide substantial financial benefits. For example, insulating a detached house could save up to £455 annually on energy bills, and these savings can be even higher for larger properties or those heated by electricity or oil. The initial installation cost is completely covered by government funding—so you don’t pay anything out of pocket.
Before answering this, it is essential to look over the cavity. A Trustmark-approved Retrofit assessor will drill a small hole and use an inspection camera to assess the condition of the cavity. This, combined with the condition report, condensation report and ventilation survey, allows a Trustmark-approved Retrofit coordinator to assess the property’s suitability for insulation. Because all installations come with a 25-year warranty and installers work to PAS 2035 standards, this route to energy efficiency offers a very high level of consumer protection.
Currently, solid wall funding is only available for terraced houses, typically, most terraced houses are suitable and this insulation measure has an immediate effect on the comfort of the property. However before any insulation measure is approved a Trustmark-approved retrofit assessor must conduct a full survey which includes a condition report, condensation report and a ventilation survey. This allows a Trustmark-approved coordinator to make a whole house assessment that ensures, any measure installed has a positive impact on the energy efficiency and comfort of the property.
The process involves drilling small holes (about the size of a ten-pence piece) into the mortar at regular intervals and injecting insulation material into the cavity. After the insulation is blown in, the holes are refilled and the wall is restored. Cavity wall insulation is usually installed in just a few hours, with the work done externally. It makes an immediate impact on the comfort and energy efficiency of your home.
This funded solid wall insulation is Internal wall insulation. It’s simply fitted on the inside of your external walls, so in a terraced house, the front and rear walls. Insulation and a breathable membrane are fitted and the wall is then skimmed, providing you with brand new fully insulated external walls which keep the heat in your living areas rather than being sucked into a forever cold solid wall.
Savings vary depending on the property type, main heating fuel and lifestyle. Those with higher heating costs are likely to make bigger savings. Typically 30-35% of heat is lost through walls, if you reduce the heat loss by insulating external walls then you reduce the heat demand. Whatever your lifestyle, whether you wear a woolly hat indoors or whether you prefer shorts and a T-shirt, insulating your home will make your home warmer and more efficient.
We’ve all seen and heard horror stories about badly installed insulation and the damp issues it’s caused. The fact is that some properties are not suitable for insulation in their current condition, and many properties that have experienced issues, were not suitable for the measure installed. Fortunately, we work to strict guidelines that ensure, before changing the fabric of a building, you must conduct a full retrofit assessment. This takes a holistic, whole-house approach and is designed to ensure that any upgrade that’s made, has a positive impact on the energy efficiency and comfort of the property. A Trustmark approved surveyor will conduct a whole house assessment which includes a condensation report and a ventilation report. Sometimes extractor fans are required in kitchens or bathrooms, or maybe some trickle vents are all that’s needed to ensure the correct airflow to keep the property warm and well-ventilated. Any ventilation upgrades that are required are addressed prior to install and are Free of charge as part of the service. We conform to Trustmark and PAS 2035 standards and all insulation measures come with a 25 year insurance backed warranty.
Yes, all insulation measures have a 25-year insurance-backed warranty. Installers working within this scheme are highly regulated, the compliance standards are rigorous, and this ensures a high level of consumer protection.
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