Add value to your home
Energy efficiency will be a key selling point when you choose to sell your house.
Now that your home’s energy performance is shown to buyers in its ‘Energy Performance Certificate', your house needs to be as efficient as possible when it comes to sale time.
People are prepared to pay more for an energy efficient home – some have even paid up to £15,000 more – and seven out of ten don’t want a property which is highly energy inefficient (an 'F' or 'G' rated home on the Energy Performance Certificate).
With some simple energy saving home improvements you can save money, improve the comfort of your home, help fight climate change and add value to your property.
Save money
With domestic fuel costs on a sharp upward curve, energy efficiency is becoming more valuable every day.
By insulating the home and adopting simple energy saving measures, the average household can save a whopping £2,300 over ten years. That’s money worth having – whatever your circumstances.
If you also include measures to make your home more self-sufficient in energy (e.g. solar panels), the cost savings can be even more impressive.
Add warmth
Nearly 90 per cent of us believe that feeling cosy and warm is a key part of having a nice home.
Installing insulation, excluding draughts and using efficient heating systems will make your home feel much warmer and cosier.
Fight climate change
- The amount of heat lost in homes annually through uninsulated lofts and cavity walls is enough to heat over 1.6 million homes for a year.
- If everyone in the UK that could installed cavity wall insulation, we would cut CO2 emissions by nearly 4 million tonnes. That's enough CO2 to fill over 22 million double-decker buses or fill Wembley stadium 500 times.
- If every household in the UK, that could installed cavity wall insulation, it would save around £700 million a year – or enough energy to heat 900,000 homes for the same period.
Source: www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
