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It was great to attend the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Healthy Homes and Buildings on Monday. The APPG believes that the UK needs to build and retrofit homes and buildings that are safe and healthy. This is of course vital if we are to bring about a joined-up approach that recognises that poor health and poorly insulated housing are linked. However, the way we fit loft insulation in the UK doesn't help matters. Once a loft is insulated, the occupier is told never to go into it again. But that’s not how people in the UK choose to live. All the evidence shows that 80% of UK households use their loft for storage and access, squash it with boxes and boards, and that this halves its thermal resistance. After which, the insulation never recovers and needs replacing within a short space of time. There already exist innovative solutions, widely available and scalable, that can ensure loft insulation serves its purpose over a lifetime. One is loft insulation protection, a British green growth industry that has treated around 1% of UK homes. By helping homeowners install and protect loft insulation, the government will be able to better ensure investment in insulation isn’t wasted and that mistakes from past and current schemes aren’t repeated. Healthier and warmer homes must be at the heart of Labour's missions and milestones to unlock growth. It can be if the government adopts easier, scalable and affordable ways to make homes healthier, cheaper to heat and more energy-efficient. Share your thoughts below. #healthyhomesandbuildings #APPG #loftinsulationprotection #LoftZone

Shaun Davies, the MP for Telford, recently visited our installer based in his constituency, #Instaloft, to talk about the issue of loft #insulationprotection and how we need it if insulation is to work properly. There is also a great short video on: https://lnkd.in/eqxgG2T8 .

💼 With the government planning to unveil details of its Warm Homes Plan next spring, it’s crucial that the government ring fences more investment for home energy efficiency in its Spending Review so warmer homes become a reality for millions of families across Britain. The Chancellor at the Budget announced the first instalment of the Plan with a boost of £3.4bn. Though welcomed, this is short of the promised £13.2bn promised at the General Election. Further investment in the UK’s home energy-efficiency supply chain is needed to help the government slash bills, decarbonise homes and secure the UK’s energy independence. 🎯 👉 Many of the companies in the retrofit sector are bringing easy, affordable and widely available innovations to market, such as loft insulation protection, to drive energy efficiency and future-proof homes. 💡 By tapping into this burgeoning SME industry, the government will not only increase access to affordable and accessible home energy efficiency solutions but will create the right long-term conditions to ensure successful delivery of the Plan. As the government will soon turn its attention to the next fiscal milestone, it has the opportunity to support homeowners to make the critical retrofits needed to turn the tide on the UK’s unhealthy, heat-leaking and expensive-to-heat homes. 🌱 Share your thoughts below. 🙏 #FuelPoverty #WarmHomesPlan #loftinsulationprotection #LoftZone

Forwarding on from the NWHC, a body which we are one of the founder members of.

Great post by Edge Energy Performance Company! As they say, it may not look pretty but LoftZone StoreFloor ensures your home stays warm and allows the insulation to work properly, and last a lifetime.

🙏 Huge thanks to Alicia Kearns MP for asking the Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary what steps he is taking to help tackle reductions in the effectiveness of loft insulation during its lifetime and increase awareness of and access to new technologies to help improve energy efficiency within homes. https://lnkd.in/g9UWw6yV 💡 These are important questions given loft insulation diminishes in effectiveness without protection – reducing its thermal resistance by at least 50% and often quite soon after installation – mainly due to compression as 80% of households use their lofts for storage. Consequently, homeowners will need to spend again to replace their insulation. Loft insulation protection is one such technology that provides an alternative solution for families and policymakers in search of easier, scalable and affordable ways to permanently cut bills and improve home energy efficiency. 🚀 📅 The government has a real opportunity next week in the Budget to champion British innovation and manufacturing to be part of the solution in making warmer homes a reality for millions of people in Britain. We look forward to working with the government and opening discussions with BSI , as the Minister recommended, on how loft insulation protection can be incorporated in future home energy and retrofit standards, including any new updates to PAS 2030 and 2035. 📣 Comment below.👇 #EnergyEfficiency #NewTechnologies #loftinsulationprotection #LoftZone

Great to see LoftZone customer, Tom Collins (MP for Worcester) write about the importance of loft insulation protection in the House article below! #LoftInsulation #WarmHomesPlan #EnergyEfficiency #SustainableHousing #HomeImprovement #GreenHomes #ClimateAction #UKHousing #EnergySaving #InsulationExperts #Sustainability #WinterFuelPayment

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Inside Housing has featured a comment piece from National Warm Homes Council Chairman, David Lennan, on the opportunity the government has in the next Budget to boost green upgrades in social housing. 🏢 Lennan asserts the government has a vested interest in helping councils and housing associations upgrade their homes to become more energy efficient. 👉 He writes the government can do this by involving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the retrofit industry to ensure millions of homes in the social housing sector are upgraded in the coming years. However, the costs of retrofitting are becoming unaffordable for too many, Lennan remarks. He points to research by the Federation of Master Builders that shows VAT costs have put off about four million households annually from making any energy-efficiency changes to their homes. 💰 Lennan suggests that to help all homeowners with the cost of transitioning to low-carbon heating, extending and clarifying the rules for VAT relief to include a broader range of innovative energy-saving equipment, such as always including loft insulation protection, would do much to incentivise councils or housing associations to make the much-needed green upgrades to homes. 💯 He concludes by making the point that the next Budget really is the time to recognise the importance of technologies like loft insulation protection and ensure they are accessible to all. ✅ Click here to read the piece in full: https://lnkd.in/g8WPTA9J Click here for a PDF version: https://bit.ly/3zZIgju #VATrelief #WarmHomesPlan #loftinsulationprotection #warmerhomes #NWHC

Our StoreFloor raised loft floor insulation protection is one of the technologies featured in this article.