Home improvement has traditionally been about taking your existing property and adding value to it. This may, in the past, have been done with extensions, or by converting the purpose of an existing room into something that the average house buyer wishes to see when he or she inspects homes for purchase. An extra bathroom or water closet, for example, always adds more to the buyer?s price of a house.
Modern home improvement is increasingly tied up with the idea of energy efficiency. Energy prices continue to rise and the cost of heating or lighting a home has increased by orders of magnitude in the last four years. Plus, we?re all aware that the resources we use to create heat and light are running out. Suddenly, the very basics of the home have become uncertain and precious.
As a result, it can add more value to a property to reinvent the way it heats itself (for instance) than to add extra bathrooms or rebuild the kitchen. Introducing better insulation, better glazing and more modern heating system, which may work from a number of low heat sources, can drastically alter the amount of energy used by the property and so represent a clear investment for a future in which it seems reasonable to suppose ? the cost of producing heat will continue to rise.
One of the most effective ways to control the cost of property heating is to introduce a non gas or electric powered method of firing the system. Wood burners and pellet burners, as well as mixed fuel burners, are both increasing in popularity.
A wood burner is essentially a stove, which either sits at the heart of a whole central heating system or is added in to a specific set of rooms to create a secondary way of delivering heat. It normally features a heat proof glass plate so the property can also benefit from the light of a natural flame, and works very much like a contained fire ? sending heat through a series of flues into the walls and ceilings of the home.
A mixed fuel or pellet burner performs the same task, but features a wider variety of fuel options. Pellets in particular are seen to be highly environmentally friendly. A pellet for burning is effectively waste sawdust, collected from existing engineering processes where wood is used and pressurised to form tablets that can be burned by a pellet burner or a mixed fuel burner.
There are a variety of new heat source types for central heating systems, too. The aired source heat pump is capable of drawing heat from the air, even when the nominal temperature is at zero or just below. A micro CHP (combined heat and power) boiler uses the mechanical action of its own internal pieces to create electricity, thereby returning the power used to plug it in and operate it.
Insulation is also a big factor in lowering the energy use of a property. Cavity wall insulation, which fits into external walls to deflect cold and contain heat, is particularly effective. In older properties, where cavity walls do not exist, they can be created (this is expensive) ? or the insulating job is done by better glazing, and by having heavy duty insulation between every floor.
To be fully energy efficient, burn the shipping boxes all the new stuff comes in.
About Author ??:
John Kissinger is a former heating engineer. He now researches ways to recycle and heat better, and has been using shipping boxes to fuel his multi fuel stove.
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Source: http://www.ebestproducts.com/2013/03/home-improvement-energy-efficient-property-insulation/
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