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#insulation

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Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ

What a bizarre story! "While some forms of insulation and solar panels are exempt from planning permission, the [PBP] party’s representatives said the situation with insulation for external walls is “less clear” for homeowners."
msn.com/en-ie/public-safety-an
#Insulation #PlanningPermission

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David Hembrow

As well as occasionally mentioning the benefits of installing better insulation to my neighbours (who have admittedly slowly been improving things over time), I also sometimes share photos which show how our now very well insulated home keeps snow and ice on the roof for much longer than outwardly identical houses in the same street.

There's also a slightly annoying downside to insulation: The snow stays on our solar panels for much longer than those of our neighbours, so we have had no solar electricity for days now and they'll be generating a little bit of electricity to slightly counter their enormous heating bill. Having said that, we're not missing out on much because with this weather there's really not much sunlight falling on the panels anyway...
davidhembrow.blogspot.com/sear
#solar #snow #insulation #winter

Three (almost four) identical semi-detached Dutch homes. Ours is on the left and our roof is completely white with snow. The next one has quite a lot of dark tile visible through the snow and the next two have obvious triangles of completely melted snow - the staircases are on the adjoining walls so hot air going up the stairs reaches the top floor and heats the roof. Also, I need to stand our Christmas tree up properly. We've had the same tree for many years, it goes in for a few weeks before Christmas and gets put back outside in January. This January I did that in horrible weather and didn't make it completely vertical.
View from the back garden of the SW facing roof. There's still snow almost covering our solar panels, so we get no useful output from them. The neighbour's house without solar panels has mostly defrosted the snow and the water went down the gutter. We have an ominous pile of snow very slowly sliding down the solar panels and trying to escape over the guttering.
View of the next two houses. Their heating has burnt a lot of gas and warmed their roof so well that the ice is completely gone from most of the roof. That's an expensive and environmentally destructive way of heating your home, but it does have the small benefit of meaning that their solar panels are almost completely free of shade (not that there's much sunlight to convert into electricity today).
It's a bit annoying that we have no solar power at all, but at least we do have these lovely icicles to look at.
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Ross of Ottawa

In the middle of the night, I thought up a technique for the problem of inserting short fibreglass #insulation batts into a wall cavity containing many protruding nail tips.

Trying to stuff a batt in there just shreds and clumps it up, making it useless and a mess.

With two wide cedar shims you can make a fibreglass sandwich. The whole thing gets pushed deep into the cavity, then each shim pulled out leaving the fibreglass in place.

Success! An easy sol'n for the problem.

#homeReno#DIY
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Matt Knight

Insulation is messy work. Fortunately the fibers in this insulation are just softwood so they're not at all itchy. A respirator is still critical though.

Two pieces fit perfectly in each stud bay without any cutting, so it's going in really quickly. I'm happy with the progress so far.

#building#construction#insulation
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Nelson

I know that cotton is "death cloth" that does not insulate when wet and can be dangerous to wear in cold (or even lukewarm) weather.

I know that wool does insulate when wet, and therefore makes a good base layer in winter.

Are there any other natural fibers that make a good base layer for cold weather activities outdoors, or are wool and synthetics your only options?

#insulation#hiking#outdoors
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Ross of Ottawa

Hey, about to start gluing up the styrofoam elements of my slowly-progressing insulated attic hatch sled.

I've yammered about this previously, and finally settled on a design based on controlling cost and effort, but still getting a good R-factor above a pull-down attic stair hatch (which is currently uninsulated).

It'll all slide out of the way when I (rarely) need attic access.

An exploded view of the insulated hatch cover involves a wooden frame, supporting a styrofoam insulation-board box which gets filled with fibreglass insulation. A bit of weatherstripping keeps it all well sealed. it sits above a hatch, keeping warm air in during our cold winters.
#insulation#homeOwnership#Winterizing
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Juggling With Eggs

I did something to amuse myself last night. I decided to post this story about how bad the situation is in the UK in terms of our cold, drafty homes that leave people in debt trying to heat them…to LinkedIn.

Most of my connections on there are people working in the #retrofit industry. People who profess to care about #insulation and improving the energy efficiency of homes.

Tumbleweed.

uk.news.yahoo.com/heating-uk-h?

Yahoo News · Why are UK homes so rubbish at staying warm? We asked the expertsBy Jasmine Andersson
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Nonilex

“The U.S. cannot & should not isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. #Isolation is not #insulation," MVP #KamalaHarris added.

#Zelenskyy spoke after #Harris, telling reporters, "We have to end this #war, we need a just #peace. We must protect our people: Ukrainian families, Ukrainian #children & everyone from #Putin's evil. We are grateful to America for supporting #Ukraine all along."

#geopolitics#ForeignPolicy#Russia
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Jon Udell

I lost a lot of sleep fretting over a poorly-insulated house in New Hampshire that was prohibitively expensive to retrofit.

While tossing and turning, I imagined solutions enabled by synthetic biology. Like organisms that grow to fill wall cavities, then die leaving inert closed-cell foam. Or that grow to seal windows in the fall and dissolve in the spring. All for practically no cost.

#energy #insulation #retrofitting

euronews.com/green/2024/09/23/

euronewsEnergy-leaking homes some of ‘biggest culprits’ of UK climate changeUnder current plans, it will take 90 years for the insulation in all of the energy inefficient homes to be upgraded.
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AI6YR Ben

The termite guy was significantly impressed by the insulation job I have done in my attic... which tells me that there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in energy efficiency upgrades across the town, since he is in attics all day doing termite treatments (it was only a few hundred dollars to boost my attic to the current recommendations for energy efficiency by US government agencies). #EnergyEfficiency #insulation

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JdeB

375 #ClimateSolutions #AndTheWinnerIs... #TopDog #Sweden
#GreenEconomy

"You don't have to reduce welfare to reduce your climate impact"
and it's not [only] by hitting the resources jackpot. It's by making the right policy choices early.
For instance: #DistrictHeating ; #Insulation ; #CleanEnergy ; #HeatPumps ; #CarbonTaxes applied diligently and effectively ; #GreenHydrogen ; #GreenSteel ; #Scholing on [Green] #Engineering and #Technology.
Still tough targets: #Agriculture and #Transport
Setting a tough target gave citizens and businesses a strong belief that it is actually going to continue to happen.

Including valuable links with detailed information in the description of the video.

"Why Sweden is light-years ahead on climate" [12:43 min]
by DW Planet A

youtube.com/watch?v=vWDMI8PDIu

Quote by DWPA
"Jul 5, 2024
If you're looking for a climate success story, you'll find it, of course, in Scandinavia. Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy. How have they done it? And can this be a blueprint for other countries?"

Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Cleaning up electricity
03:22 Fossil-free heat
05:42 Sweden's carbon tax
08:45 What's left?
11:08 Lessons learned

YouTubeWhy Sweden is light-years ahead on climateBy DW Planet A
#TakeCareForLife#TakeCareForEarth#StopBurnigThings
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Q. does Labour realise how much it would cost to insulate Britain, and if they do have they found a way to fund it?

Perhaps the key Q. is who should pay; a universal programme would see many who could afford retro-fitting gaining funds at the expense of all taxpayers, but are the social (climate) benefits so great that this 'unnecessary' subsidy should be ignored?

No-one said retrofitting the UK's housing stock would be (politically) easy...

#climate #insulation

theconversation.com/labour-has

The ConversationLabour has a chance to finally insulate Britain – but there’s a big hole in its plansThe new government aims to retrofit five million homes in five years – while footing 10% of the bill.
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CelloMom On Cars

Here's #WhatBidenDid to help low- and moderate-income households who want to install a #HeatPump in their house or upgrade its #insulation, but need help with the upfront cost:

In participating states, you can get up to 100% (up to $14,000) toward the cost of electrification, efficiency upgrades, or EnergyStar appliances.

Find out if your state participates; if not, ask your state reps to push for participation.

cnbc.com/2024/04/22/inflation-

Thanks to @croselund for the alert!

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AI6YR Ben

Based on the neighbors hanging-out-in-their-garage again last night in their pajamas in the dark (to avoid going inside their hot house), I believe the level of insulation/heat proofing here is paying off (never turned on the AC, house stayed below 74F the whole day from thermal mass alone). #insulation #weatherproofing

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Kees van der Leun

Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015.
£9bn due to not having built more cheap onshore wind, £5bn due to poorly insulated homes, £5bn due to low solar deployment, £3bn because new homes were built less efficient.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutti
#renewables #windpower #windenergy #solar #SolarPV #solarpower #solarenergy #insulation #energyefficiency

Carbon Brief · Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015 - Carbon BriefUK's energy bills were £22bn higher over the past decade than they would have been if Conservative governments had not cut “green crap” climate policies.
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