On 25/08/2014 08:41, Martin Brown wrote:
On 19/08/2014 22:58, Nightjar "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote:
On 19/08/2014 22:10, Dennis@home wrote:
On 19/08/2014 19:20, harryagain wrote:
"Dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 18/08/2014 09:56, "Nightjar \"cpb\""@ insert my surname
here wrote:


£15k invested with a medium risk portfolio I have with HSBC
would have increased to £22.78k over 5 years. I wonder if
he has made as much out of the FIT.

He would have made about £5k but at zero risk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...efficient.html



You aren't very energy efficient if you are using 7000kWhr a
year. That's more than I use and the daughter uses a lot. You
need to do better if you actually want to save the planet.


I could never save £4000 a year on energy, I don't pay anywhere
near that much and never have. You must waste a lot.

Yep. In a house with no double glazing, 100mm of loft insulation,
electric cooking, non-off peak electric water heating and direct
electric heating, I pay about £2,500 a year. The electricity
company keep trying to persuade me that is excessive.

Why don't you get the loft insulation upgraded to 200mm or better
250mm? (at least above the rooms that you actually use)

If you have to pay it probably isn't worth doing..

You lose about 25% of heat through the roof, 100mm of loft insulation
will cut that down to about 1%. Adding another 100 mm will halve that so
save you 0.5%. You are probably better off using the money to save
elsewhere.


It is a fairly easy if tedious DIY procedure and the plastic bag
enclosed glass fibre insulation is easy to handle.

You can get energy saving grants if inpecunious or free schemes for
the elderly.

Some areas can get free 270 mm loft insulation for any house built
before about 1995 (when it became the standard).

Same for cavity wall insulation if your house walls
actually have cavities (mine don't).

You can get a green deal loan to have solid walls insulated now.
If you actually want to save energy that could save about 40% of your
heating energy.

Double glazing the rooms that
you actually heat will also make a worthwhile long term saving too.

Double glazing won't svae much compared to the cost.
However it makes the house more comfortable and gets rid of the
draughts. Getting rid of draughts saves about 10% and cost very little
for the DIY materials.


Regards, Martin Brown