Stormguard Around Loft Attic Hatch Door Draught Excluder Seal Strip Weather Proofing Insulation. (4 x 685mm, Brown)

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While we always recommend insulating your hot water and heating pipes if they are not in a heated part of the home, there is more that you need to look out for. Where the pipes pass through walls and partitions, gaps can appear and draughts will be the result. Even if you're eager to draught proof your whole home, it’s important not to completely seal your property. There needs to be some air flowing in and out. Adding draught proofing strips around the perimeter of the loft hatch will help to prevent draughts in both instances. How to Draught Proof a Loft Hatch There are several simple measures that you can take to help with this such as fitting draught strips around windows and doors. Many products are available today that are very easy to fit to help you with this such as self-adhesive draught proofing strips. These new products tend to last a lot longer and are substantially more efficient than older types. These tend to be more suited to draught proofing windows. Where you have an external door with a draughty gap at ground level, we recommend a brush type draught excluder, which will be durable enough to deal with the constant boots stomping over it, whilst still cutting out the draught.

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Controlled ventilation will reduce condensation, maintain a healthy atmosphere and prevent damp and mould growth by letting in air where it is needed. Draughts, however, let in too much air in the wrong place at the wrong time, making draught proofing the cheapest and most effective way to save energy, and money, especially in older buildings How to Draught Proof Your Home 1. Draught Proofing Doors Moving in 2002 to a small-holding in South Wales, providing as it did access to a wider range of natural resources, fanned his enthusiasm for sustainability. He went on to install renewable technology at the property, including biomass boiler and wind turbine. Draught proofing an existing hatch is simply a matter of attaching a self-adhesive foam strip (sometimes called weatherstrip) or EPDM door and window draught proofing strip. What's more, insulating a loft hatch can help to prevent possible issues with condensation in the loft space. Warm, moist air can be drawn into a loft space through a loft hatch. When this air hits cold surfaces, such as the roof timbers, it will condense. Condensation on timbers can result in rot and decay over time, damaging the roof structure.Areas to focus on are floor boards, skirting boards, where window and door frames meet the wall and the ceiling-to-wall junctions. The less obvious areas are keyholes, kitchen cupboards (where pipes are likely to penetrate walls), loft hatches and downlights.

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Alternatively, you could use a draught excluder. All sorts of shops sell draught excluders, or you could even make one yourself by filling a large piece of fabric with old clothes or rice. That said, even then the measurable energy loss is unlikely to break the bank. A 500mm x 500mm loft hatch could lose up to 40kWh/year. Add in the draughts around the hatch’s edge and the cold-bridge effect this creates, and that figure could reach 60kWh/year (varying with how draughty the loft is). However, the better the insulation and draught proofing to the rest of the house the greater the impact of an uninsulated hatch. Should I Insulate the Loft Hatch in My Home?Tim is an expert in sustainable building methods and energy efficiency in residential homes and writes on the subject for magazines and national newspapers. He is the author of The Sustainable Building Bible, Simply Sustainable Homes and Anaerobic Digestion - Making Biogas - Making Energy: The Earthscan Expert Guide. There are different types of loft hatches in every home. So you’ll need to consider what kind of insulation is the best for you. And likewise, if you have a hinged hatch that swings downwards but rests against a post within the hatch casing/frame when shut then you’d apply the strip around that post. So the strips would be facing downwards.