draft proofing
Draft Busting Saturday (event post)
Draft proofing is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce your heating bills, keep your house warm and reduce your environmental footprint.
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Hi folks,
On Saturday a few of us spent an hour getting to know the draft proofing materials that we're hoping to use in our Peckham Power Draft-Busting days.
We're planning our first draft-busting training session on Thursday 2nd July 2009 and then we'll aim to run monthly draft-busting events on Saturday afternoons. Hurray!
Free draft proofing training (newsletter post)
Dear Peckham Power'er,
Would you be interested in attending a free training session for installing draft proofing measures in domestic buildings? The training will be given by a representative from a leading insulation manufacturer and will probably happen some time in May or June at a local venue. Spaces are very limited at this initial training event. However, if you're not able to attend this initial training event then please don't worry because our intention is to run regular, free and community-based "Draft Busting Saturdays" to pass on draft-busting skills.
Please email jack [at] peckhampower [dot] org to register your interest for the initial draft proofing training.
For more discussion of the "Draft Busting Saturdays" events, please see our forum post:
http://peckhampower.org/forum/groups/energy-efficiency/draft-busting-project
Many thanks,
Jack
Peckham Power
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Visit to Hyde Farm CAN's Draft-Busting Saturday (blog post)
I went to Hyde Farm CAN's "Draft-Busting Saturday" today. I learnt LOADS. Hyde Farm CAN are really doing some fantastic work. I'll write much more about what I learnt at today's event soon.
For now, I just want to comment on this:
Questions about insulation and draft proofing (forum post)
OK. Here's something worth exploring. If you have a solid wall house and have minimised draughts as much as possible, installed double (or secondary glazing), radiator panels and keep the doors to rooms closed...how much heat can you retain in the house? What would change if you used insulating paint? Oh and have you sealed your floorboards...and if you do all this, how does the house breathe? And of course - a relative concept - how cold is cold?Read the rest of this post
