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Heating and Insulating Buildings - Coggle Diagram
Heating and Insulating Buildings
How to insulate your home to reduce the rate of energy transfer outside the house
Loft insulation
Cavity wall insulation
Material that is used to fill the cavity between the two brick layers of an external house wall.
Thicker bricks with lower conductivity
Aluminium foil between a radiator panel and a wall.
Foil reflects infrared radiation from radiator preventing absorption of radiation by surface of wall behind foil
Double glazed windows
A wider gap transfers less energy,
Air between panes insulates and the wider the air gap, the more
effective the window is at reducing energy transfer through it
Air convects so energy transferred if space filled with air but not with vacuum
Windows with plastic frames VS metal frames
plastic = heat insulator, metal = good conductor,
∴ more energy transferred through metal frame
Solar Panels
Generate energy
Higher initial cost but lower cost long term.
How we usually heat houses
Electric or gas heaters
Gas or oil fire central heating
Solid fuel stoves