I was flabbergasted at how cold it was in this extended area of the kitchen. Immediately I knew that he had not been insulated properly and a quick investigation proved this. I also took a quick peek into their attic and found that the installation not very good. Because of the weather conditions here at present -10°C the roads are particularly bad driving up so it will be a week or two before I popped down and sort out their problems.

Insulating and heating your home

Making sure that your home is cosy and comfortable particular during the winter months is vital. I guess this is for a number of reasons the first being it will reduce your energy bills if you have a home that has been insulated well. So making sure you have a home can help to reduce your heating costs and make it more energy efficient.

The main areas where you need to insulate are your walls and attic space as it has been said that this is where half of your heat can be lost.

Quick solutions that you can do right now to insulate your home

There are number of quick solutions that can actually help you to reduce the heat coming from your home and keeping it in making more energy efficient. Now these are a couple of quick solutions that any household can do immediately. If you have radiators are complex foil along the back of radiator this actually helps to reflect heat away from the wall back into the room rather than out at the house.

If you have a local DIY store you can purchase the draft executors. These are very cheap to purchase you just simply place them in front of doors, if you cannot find these you can use old pieces of carpet or cardboard this will help to keep the heat would in a room and save it from going under the.

You should always make sure that you fit an insulation jacket on your boiler as this can help to prevent heat escaping.

Now I’ll be honest this quick solutions to both very simple and as I said there was quick solutions to helping to insulate your home. In a sample of my parents home it needs a little bit more than this because it needs insulation in the attic area to prevent heat being lost. There are many standards now within new buildings and this of course will vary from state to state and country to country. But, the basis are the same.

What Do You Use

There are many different types of installation material that can be used in your attic area to help prevent heat loss. I would definitely recommend consulting with a professional to first get a quote and to see what they offer. I always recommend if you are doing this that you contact at least three different companies see who has the best offer and who has the best material. Generally material onto the same but there could be some significant price differences between them. Always shop around and always try get the best value possible.

Maybe in a later post in a couple of weeks I will talk about the different types of materials that can be purchased for insulating your attic. Many building standards where I live is present but not required is to become in new homes so generally lots of people had to get this done at a later stage when they realized that they had purchased a home without any standardized in insulating.

What Next

Another funny thing happened two days ago when all of a sudden it was not as cold as we start to get hit with a storm. In the winds and rain simply down for a number of hours because the wind was blowing the rain at awkward angles my neighbour called him to let me know that they had a leak. The funny thing about leaks and water is it can be quite difficult to locate at times and I advised my neighbour just to cope with at present and do not attempt to try any repairs and current weather conditions.

The previous people who had lived there had also had the same issue once or twice and we were able to use some seal around a top window which seem to have leaked. With this bit of knowledge I was able to advise him that this could be where the problem is and he needed to seal the window with some silicone. The problem was there was no way he was going up on the other end of weather conditions to solve this. Also at this time a year many of the stores where those and now again we are being hit with freezing weather which is making it very difficult to drive to a local DIY store to purchase some silicone. The rain has stopped, which is a good thing for him but obviously this is a problem that needs to be sorted out within the next two days once the weather conditions have returned back to normality.

Good Advice

With the time come be a quite difficult time of any one’s home and many of us would face ongoing challenges in the next couple of months I’ve realized there are a number of things we should have done during the summer months to prevent issues. Sometimes I guess we never really checked tapes because they may not cause any issues. I remember about two years ago I had a similar leak in my home I was really just a quick bit of maintenance for five minutes was able to resolve the problem. This however cost stainless in one of my bedrooms on the walls and also in our living room, which in turn meant I have to repaint these two room. So for five minutes work I have the problem fixed if I had done this during the summer months but could not prevent the leak and also having to paint these two rooms separately.

The first thing we looked at was whether he wanted a.bath tub or a shower, and he if he wanted a bath was it going to be a full bath or half bath. Sometimes the problem with basement baths is that some people have the perception that a basement is cold and may not particularly this, the perception is because it’s below ground that the space can sometimes feel quite could and this is the reality also have experienced all made number of jobs over the years. A shower can be a little bit more pleasant but if you do decide to go for the bath you may have to consider investing in heating for your basement. You would think this would be something they would put into the house plans when designing them but the majority of homes do not have this. Historically this is really not a standard you will find in most homes and is usually added that the beginning of a home built or something has added later on in life maybe as you family gets bigger.
So, my friend decided to put in a shower instead of a bath.  Next on our list was what type of toilet we were going to use, there were a couple of options on the table we code use above floor plumbing system with a macerator which code easily be installed but it works out a little bit expensive.  However there are a couple of options that seem to be better priced that needed a little bit of excavate space in the floor which we decided to do as it was cheaper it did require a little bit more work but that was not a problem.

We then look at the layout of the room and how much space we have come we want is to make it possible to move with it in the bathroom itself as it was a big basement we just stationed off the area for this.  Another concern was lighting and mirrors we decided to put in some nice recessed lighting and a couple of very large mirrors this gave the impression that the room was bigger than what it actually was.  You need to be careful what position you put these in if you are thinking of doing something like this for your self you want to make sure it has an inviting and pleasant fields to the bottom.

He wanted some nice bright colors in terms of paint and to be honest he chose a really nice color scheme for the bathroom.  As I have worked on house plans before I had my eye is and between us we shared these and implemented some of mine and some of his sometimes it is good to share these kind of ideas and bounced around but at the end of the day we had to make sure that the room was airy spacious and bright and most of all pleasant room to be in as it was in the basement.

After a couple of weeks everything was finished, we worked on it just at the weekends but it was an easy job once we have the planning all in place.  I am a believer that everything when doing any type of DIY at home that planning should be the key thing at the top of your list before you start any project.

You need to make sure that you allow enough wall covering for trimming at the ceiling, unfold the top section of the pasted length and then make sure you hold it against the plumbed line.

Make sure you brush the paper gently onto the wall working from the centre in all directions in order to squeeze out any trapped air that may be in the paper.

When you think the paper is in the correct position and you have smoothly brushed this onto the wall you then need to lightly draw the point of your scissors along your ceiling line so you then peel back the top edge and cut along this crease.  Make sure you remove any excess paper, smoothed the paper back and choose tree down with a brush if required.

You then need to unpeel the lower fold of the paper and make sure to smooth these as you have already done with a brush.  The next step is to crease the bottom edge against the skirting and again feel the way the paper and trim with your scissors once this is done brush it back against the wall.

The next length of paper should be hung in the same manner.  If the paper has a pattern you can slide this along the wall with your fingertips to align it with the other paper already on the wall.  You can wipe any excess paste from the sources using a damp cloth, then by using they seam roller along the butt joint to make sure the edges of the paper adhere firmly to your wall.

Air bubble tips

Sometimes you will get a slight blistering in the paper, usually this can flattens out when the paper begins to dry.  If however the blistering remains you can cut the paper slightly and inject some paste so this area and sticks to the wall.  You could also cut across the blistering in two different directions peeled back some paste on this area then flatten down with a brush.