Dec
22 So Glad For Insulation

I never really thought much about insulation before. I supposed it's not really one of the most glamourus of things in life. But I really wanted to try and do my bit for the planet. I've also been worried the costs of my heating bills. I mean, the bills are find in the summer when there's no heating on. But in the winter I have always really worried. I don't like sitting in a cold house but at the same time I've felt really guilty.

One day when I was on the internet I came across one of these photos where it shows the amount of heat loss you are experiencing from your house. It was just amazing. All that money being spent on heating and it's just going out through the roof and the windows.

Well, that was it I guess. I talked to my dad about what I needed to do about insulation and also read up on the internet about it. There was a special deal on rolls of insulation at a local DIY store so we filled the car up with as many rolls as we could and my dad fitted it in the roof. There was already insulation there but it was pretty old and not very good. We bought the best insulation we could and so far it's amazing the difference to the house.

The heating is no longer on at full because it's not escaping the way that it was. Also, we spent a lot of time find those pesky drafts. There were a number of them such as under the doors. We still had a couple of really old windows at the back of the house so I got them replaced too with double glazing.

I really recommend that anyone who is thinking about insulating there home do so. Oh, another thing was that there were many pipes for the central heating system that ran under the floor that didn't have any lagging on it. So we bought some of that grey-coloured foam stuff and wrapped it round them. It really didn't cost a lot of money at all.

Now I kinda look forward to receiving my gas bill because I'm sure it's going to be much cheaper than last year. Actually, I think I'll go and do a reading myself of the gas meter and fill that online form thing.

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Dec
22 Welcome

Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Toni and I'm from England and like to blog about the environment. It's something that I feel very deeply about because there have been a number of floodings where I live and I feel that a lot of it is down to climate change. I don't care that people say there has been climate change in the past and that it has nothing to do with humans.

This may well have been the case in the past. But just because there was climate change caused by nature, doesn't mean you can't get climate change caused by humans. It seems too much of a coincidence that the climate is going nuts just as we're pumping more and more crap out into the atmosphere.

However I do worry about the lengths that government go to meet targets. There's no point in producing biodiesel if we're going to end up cutting down the rainforests and cause food shortages. I do worry that we're so eager to find a way of allowing us to continue living a western lifestyle withought causing harm to the environment, that we end up wearing rose-tinted glasses when it comes to the downsides.

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