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Rented will have an energy performance certificate, so that will show them how their house is performing in terms of keeping the warm heat in their home. also given suggestions on how they can improve their home. but the really big wins are basically having 30 centimetres of loft insulation, using foam strips around windows and doors that are leaky and low cost measures like keeping your curtains shut at night. if you only have single glazing you can put secondary film glazing on and that works well for the winter. that is a quick, temporary measure. there is lots of ways to insulate your home...

These retrofits can be an investment. from a £20 roll of loft insulation to between £6,000 and £18,000 for a brand—new heat pump. so in this empty council house near harrogate, researchers are putting retrofitted energy—saving measures to the test, comparing how much they cost to how well they work. there doesn't appear to be any major leakage around the window. i'll check under the sink. we've put in new double glazing and new doors, so we did the experiment before the glazing came in, and we did exactly the same experiment afterwards. right. and so these are the new windows? yeah. —...