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News Release from: Mark Group | Subject: 'Whole house' energy efficiency solutions
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 November 2007
Coldest homes are in Liverpool
Mark Group urges house holders to warm to the benefits of insulation as new UK coldest homes map reveals Liverpool top of the cold spots.
As a new map shows Liverpool to have the coldest homes in the UK, house holders are being advised by the Mark Group - UK's leading 'whole house' energy efficiency solutions company - to turn up the heat in their homes by warming to the benefits of insulation, A new 'coldest homes' map of the UK published by the Department of Health to encourage vulnerable people to stay warm this winter identifies Liverpool as the UK's coldest place with 28.8% of people aged over 65 living in the city, being without any central heating Leeds comes in 2nd in the table with 28.1% of its over 65s having no central heating in their homes and Barrow in Furness makes it a northern top three with a 26.5%
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 7 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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But as we enter into the long winter months Leicester based MARK group - the UK's leading specialists in whole house energy efficiency solutions - are urging people not to sit and shiver in silence but take-up the financial opportunities available to make their homes warmer and more energy efficient.
Millions of pounds of grants are available through local authorities and Government funding pots - in particular to the elderly and vulnerable - for insulation and heating systems, with the Mark Group on hand to help walk people through the process.
Bill Rumble, MARK Group Director, said: "This report identifies 10 different 'cold spots' in the UK but with grants and financial help available no one has to live in a 'cold spot' this winter.
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One significant way you can warm up your home is through installing cavity wall and loft insulation.
It's an area that often gets neglected when looking at the energy efficiency of our homes.
"Yet for a relatively low outlay households could vastly improve their energy efficiency performance overnight and make huge savings on their energy bills.
There are also grants available to help offset the cost of insulation and heating systems and we at the Mark Group can help people through the application process with our advice service." Of the 26 million properties in the UK, around nine million homes are without cavity wall insulation and 11 million homes without adequate loft insulation.
But if everyone in the UK installed loft insulation up to 270mm thickness, the equivalent savings would pay the energy bills of 640,000 families in the UK.
The carbon savings to be made by simply installing cavity wall and loft insulation deficit are massive.
Once again if everyone in the UK installed loft insulation up to 270mm thickness it would cut carbon emissions by 7 million tonnes - enough carbon dioxide to fill the new Wembley stadium 900 times over.
The MARK Group are the UK's largest provider of 'whole house' solutions to energy efficiency offering a full range of energy efficiency technologies including Solar Electricity, Solar Hot Water,Cavity Wall Insulation, Loft Insulation,Timber Frame Insulation, Heat Pumps and Wind Turbines.
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