New Cure for Cold Homes!!

For many years people who own older homes have had to be content with improving windows and loft insulation to prevent heat escaping from their homes.
Newer homes have cavity walls - this is essentially two walls, one inner leaf and one outer leaf seperated by a gap which is typically between 65 - 100mm wide. This "cavity" is in modern houses filled with insulation of one description or another, but in older houses this cavity was often left empty. This allows the homeowner to have a cavity fill insulation injected into the cavity thus reducing dramatically the heat loss of a building. Unfortunately older buildings are not built with cavity walls they are usually constructed from a solid 9" brick wall. So the only way to insulate them has been to add insulation internally, which whilst improving the heat retention properties of a building, reduces the room size and involves an awful lot of work in re plastering and re finishing. But now developments in the building industry have led to a demand for insulation cladding systems which enable this insulation to be applied externally. Once the insulation has been fixed the homeowner has a number of choices as to the finish. Sprayed render finishes in an array of colours, timber cladding systems and real brick facades. With the use of the products being more widespread, manufacturers of these systems are investing more and more into improving the finishes - so it is now very likely the finished look could actually improve the aesthetics of many buildings whilst at the same time eliminating many of the problems associated with solid walls in older buildings. The picture below shows an example of where brick facings have been used to improve the aesthetics of a buildings which has severely degraded facing bricks. For details of this type of system please feel free to contact us at  Heptagon Construction