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Insulate your roof & loft

With energy prices through the roof, quite literally, now is an opportune time to invest in the fabric of your home by installing loft insulation. According to the Energy Saving Trust (), if installed correctly, roof insulation will, on average, cost £590 to insulate the loft of a mid-terrace house. However, that initial outlay should pay for itself many times over in its 40-year lifetime. In fact, in that same housing type you’d be saving an average of £330 in energy bills per year. The government has. ‘Loft insulation can retain this heat, helping to lower heating bills significantly,’ he says.

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