Don’t give draughts, dust and noise any chances – insulate your doors with our solutions and reduce your energy costs!
Saving Energy
Warmth is most likely to escape through uninsulated exterior walls, roofs or ground storey flooring, while cold air draughts from outside enter via small gaps in windows as well as external front and terrace doors, causing further heating costs. Frequently, there’s also a great potential for savings in how you pre-set the heating and how you air your rooms. Here, you’ll learn how to lower your energy costs easily with our tesamoll® draught excluder and insulation range.
Thermal Insulation – The Basis for Successfully Saving Money
Save energy by insulation windows
If your home wasn’t built using modern day standards, there are most likely many ways to save energy. A low-energy home these days consumes only some 20% of the energy for heating as a home built in the 1960s. The primary reason for this enormous saving is the right thermal insulation. Good heat insulation is the be all and end all of saving energy. Poor insulation just lets expensive heating energy evaporate.
Through roofs, exterior walls and windows, cold draughts creep in through gaps and cracks. Warm air rises to the top, collecting under ceilings and the roof. Thus, it doesn’t come as any surprise that a poorly insulated roof lets the warmth escape right through it.
The area behind radiators is also frequently responsible for a lot of energy loss. That’s why you should take a look at the tesa® Reflector Foil, which sends the warmth back into the room.
Insulating Windows and Doors – Simple and Effective with tesamoll®
Older houses in particular still have windows and doors which lose energy by allowing cold draughts in. This applies especially to windows and doors made of wood or windows with single glazing. Wood changes over time, creating small gaps which allows cold air to effortlessly enter the inside of your home. To maintain a pleasant room temperature, additional energy is then needed. If completely replacing doors and windows seems too expensive, we can offer you two smart options to achieve real savings in a flash. Our tesamoll® energy-saving products like our window draught excluder make this possible!
On the one hand, you’ll find several tesamoll® draught excluder sealing strips in our range, allowing you to quickly and simply keep draughts outside. You can choose between rubber profiles and draught excluders made of rubber foam. The choice of product depends on the width of the gap to be sealed as well as the desired durability and quality. On the other hand, we also offer the window insulation film tesamoll® Thermo Cover which also reduces energy loss. Under optimal conditions, energy savings of up to 40% are possible!
This is how you can check your windows for sufficient sealing: Place a sheet of paper in-between the window and frame – if the paper can be pulled out easily, the seal is insufficient. Repeat the test in several places. You can also check for draughts with a burning candle. The check is easier when it’s windy or cold.
Other Ways to Save Energy in Your Home
Candles in front of an insulated window in winter
Airing Your Rooms the Right Way…
- Airing quickly: Leaving the window partly open and going out – especially in the winter months, isn’t a good idea because your home will get cold. Instead, it’s much better to do quick bursts of airing, i.e. opening the windows all the way two to three times a day.
- Adequate airing: In the winter time, air two to three times a day for 5 to 10 minutes each; in the spring and autumn, air in bursts of about 15 to 30 minutes.
- Airing as needed: Not all rooms need to be aired equally often. Bedrooms and kid’s rooms are ideally aired right after getting up in the morning. Kitchens and bathrooms require fresh air more often because of the increased humidity.
- Airing in general: Airing is absolutely necessary in winter because the walls can’t “breathe”. Without airing, the moisture can’t be evacuated. The result: mould formation.
Heating the Right Way...
- Pay attention to the recommended temperatures: bedroom (16-18°C), stairs and hallways (14-15°C), kitchen (18°C, at night: 14°C), living rooms (20°C, at night: 14°C) and bathrooms (23°C, at night: 14°C). Reducing the temperature by one degree leads to a 6% reduction in heating costs.
- Do not block radiators with furniture.
- Insulate wall behind radiator
- Release the air from a radiator when it’s making gurgling noises.
- Do not set the warm water temperature above 60°C. Insulate warm water pipes.
- Close shutters and drapes so that less warmth is lost.
