First Step Products

What do we mean by first step products?

First step products are relatively low cost products and measures that you can take to start your journey of reducing your energy consumption. Saving energy in your home is a way of cutting your bills as well as reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The following are a number of products that although low cost, can make a relatively big difference.

Thermostatic Radiator Valves

How Do Thermostatic Radiator Valves Work?
Thermostatic radiator valves (TRV's) sense the air temperature around them and regulate the flow of hot water entering the radiators to keep a set temperature in a room. They can help you save money and energy by allowing temperatures in some rooms than in others, and to turn off the heating in rooms that aren't used.
 

What Are The Benefits?
By installing TRVs, you could save around £10 a year and around 45kg of CO2 a year.

Is It Suitable For My Requirements?
In the majority of cases TRVs can not turn off the boiler when the whole house has reached the right temperature. To do that, you will need a room thermostat as well. Radiators in the space containing the room thermostat should not normally have TRVs. But if they do, you should keep the TRVs on their highest possible settings, and set the room thermostat to the required temperature instead.

Reflective Radiator Panels

How Do Reflective Radiator Panels Work?
Reflective radiator panels consist of reflective material installed behind radiators to reduce heat loss through external walls. They generally come in two forms; rolls of foam ~3mm thick with a metallic film or more rigid profiled units that are shaped to provide turbulence to push air into the room rather than be absorbed into exterior walls.

What Are The Benefits?
If you have uninsulated exterior walls, the heat that would otherwise be lost through the walls, will be conserved within the property and subsequently will reduce your energy requirement and carbon emissions.

Is It Suitable For My Requirements?
The rolls of thin foam with a metallic coating need to be fitted with the radiator off the wall. The more rigid profiled variety can be fitted with the radiator in-situ. The panels are most effective when fitted behind radiators that are mounted on un-insulated external walls.

Chimney Balloons

How Does a Chimney Balloon Work?
Chimney balloons are a simple and effective way of blocking chimneys when not in use.

A room with a blocked chimney needs only about half the heat compared with rooms with open chimneys, so it makes sense to fit a chimney balloon in every chimney which is not in everyday use.

The balloon effectively stops cold draughts coming down your chimney and warm air escaping up your chimney.

The balloons are made in a special laminate to make them airtight, tear-resistant and long-lasting. It also has a special shape that allows a little ventilation on two corners to keep your chimney dry. Using a chimney balloon is completely safe: if it is accidentally heated, it shrivels and deflates. 

How to Get Started...

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