Stay Warm For Less ~ Home Energy Saving Tips
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- This one from the archive sees Roger with some useful energy-saving tips.
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Good to see Roger’s son getting involved
Hahah I was thinking that👌🏻
😂😂😂👍
I actually laughed :)
Lol
Roger's new age defying face scrub I got him for Christmas is clearly doing the trick!
Thanks Ben. It has nearly run out so the next time you see me prepare for dissapointment
Feel like I'm in a time warp watching Roger in this video
Might be an old video but every tip is spot on and very much relevant to this day and the foreseeable future, how much and how little things change. Very helpful 👌
Roger is looking younger by the week! Lockdown is doing you a world of good 😌
Well done Roger. Just goes to show that good advice doesn't age. 😎 Cheers.
Roger there’s a lot of comments so I didn’t go down through them all to see if this was mentioned before,but I had a hall door like that with a letterbox while there is seals and brushes from post coming in the springs get loose and when the wind got up it was dreadful I never like the colour so I changed the door but it had no letterbox put a postbox outside and the difference it made was incredible keep up the good work.
Good advice. Keep it outside, it is mostly junk mail these days.
When this was made robin clevett was only 12 😂
And yet he would have been a massively annoying c###, even then!
@@johnhigginbotham8291 there’s only one c### here fella and that’s you 🤦♂️
Although it’s clear to see the age of the video, the advice is timeless. Good work guys
We agree! If there is stuff in our archive that still has relevance then it is worth putting out and for all those people who think an old person has been old forever it is a reminder that time is chasing them up the path.
Great advice Roget but 😱😱just to clarify, trickle vents in windows do not form part of its insulation properties. Its just a new build building regulation.
We manufacture frames using multi chambered pvcu profiles, we use co extruded gaskets and the most efficient heat reflective glass, only to drill holes through the frame!! 🥶🥶 permanently drafty & noisy. The windows are tested, classified & rated without trickle vents. If anybody is fitting into newbuild, argue this point with building control & insist you don't want dirty great holes drilled into your expesive A rated window frames!!!! They have a built in trickle vent in the locking mechanism.
*Roger sausage finger syndrome!!
Enjoy the mould. You just can’t seal yourself in. Sit in your car with the engine off on a cold day and see for yourself.
You have to let some moisture out. I’ve never heard of trickle vents but they look cool
@@theadamfriedlandshow4668 cool being the perfect description of how a house feels with trickle vents!! You might as well leave your windows permamently open. Trust me I've been in the window industry for 35 years. Trickle vents are a bad idea, always have been...
Would be great to see a video on cavity wall insulation, and the best options as it can sometimes lead to damp problems in the home. Or even some quick advice would be helpful. 😉
Simple and effective Rodger as always,top man
A few thoughts.
It was great to see you emphasize the importance of roof insulation. A very small investment in insulation makes a big difference. Considering cost alone, the payback period ,if the project can be DIY, may only be 1 to 2 years and closer to 4 if hired out.
Replacing windows is always important if the original windows have failed mechanically as direct air movement between interior and exterior creates the greatest threat of heat loss So, if you're going to replace then replace with the best you can afford. BUT...and this is a big but...the R value of even the best (and most expensive by far) is in the R6 to R8 range but values generally are between R2 and R4. The reality is that replacing existing curtains with quality thermal curtains can lead to the same R value or more as many manufactures have products between R4 and R6 at a fraction of the cost of equal R value windoq units. Between a good quality window and quality drapes, the window area can have, especially in the case of an older home, an R value similar to the walls of the home.
A last point ties these together. Because roof area are generally open you have a great deal of available space for insulation. 9 inches of insulation provides an R value of 30. When talk about windows you are maxing out at about R6 and coupled with thermal curtains at R10. Regardless of what individuals choose to do, from a purely ROI perspective, the very first thing everyone should do is see if they can reduce thermal loss through the roof. You said it...if you can, add more.
Looked like the beginning of a cheesy adult film 😂 “hi I’ve come to tweak your valves and check ya flue”
Ah yes, but do you have at least 8 inches in the loft?
I've turned my heating down by a degree for the last 20 years - now I'm well frozen 🥶
You will last longer, they keep digging stone age bodies out of the claciers
1st October 65% increase in bills that most of us can't afford. Expect lots of views and thanks for the tips. Staying warm is going to be a mission. Thermal clothes and hot water bottles for us.
How about a video on how to insulate floorboards from the under cavity. I removed the carpets and replaced with a laminate, but the subfloor leaks alot of cold air, especially around the skirting boards where the beading is. The entrance hall is the worst ❄️❄️❄️
Great video, i wonder is thermal paint any good on an internal wall? i have an 1850s house which has solid lime stone walls, and beautiful cornice which i dont want removed, is there anyway i can insulate the walls?
Great video Roger, more podcasts would be great 👍
We put one out the other day
Hey Rog, is that the video you made 30 years ago an just converted it from 35mm film to work on UA-cam???
I'm keen on good insulation but I also like the utility provided by my boarded loft. It is insulated under the boards but about 4", not 8".
Mick Dundee’s English brother! “That’s not an adjustable spanner” 🔧
This is an adjustable spanner
@@SkillBuilder 😂👍
@@SkillBuilder you know what Germans call an adjustable spanner?
An 'English'
And what about Swedes?
You guessed it...
An 'english'
... Solid respect for that devil accurate tool....
Thanks Roger am spending a fortune on heating so anything like this helps!
Useful tips. Sorry to hear your ladder left when so young 😉
Thanks for sharing 👍
Great video, thanks for posting - it's very helpful! I'd love to see something on attic insulation. I'm living in an old house with literally 15 millimetre's of insulation sitting atop the plasterboard. I'm currently flooring parts of the attic and the joists are about 110mm high so putting 200mm of insultation in isn't a runner if I want space in the attic with a the plywood sitting atop the joists. I can fill the 110 millimetres under the flooring with earth wool but would appreciate your and anybody else advice if I could be smarter about it.
Screw down 3by2 on top of joists will give you more depth
thanks roger found this video very informative and useful.
Glad you enjoyed it
What kind of difference is one likely to see by upgrading windows to low emissivity ones? All other things ignored or the same, just wondering what the improvement just the actual glass brings.
thanks
More air tightness and MVHR is the next step forward in saving energy
I am no fan of air tightness because it traps moisture and germs. MVHR can be noisy so people tend to turn it off. I favour passive ventilation, it works a treat.
@@SkillBuilder Same problem with trickle vents, everyone shuts them when it gets cold and you start trapping moisture and germs. What we need is software and AI to control the heating and ventilation. LOL.
Great tips there ..... who was that handsome young chap 🤔.🤣
Your jokes haven’t improved since 😩🤣🤣🧱👋🏽
Fantastic video mate. I have a quick questions. At 1:38, you are sitting a room with something like rockwool on the floor. Your room is unfinished and I have one which is similar. Does placing rockwool on the floor of this room keep the room below warm? Please let me know. Thanks.
yes, it stops heat escaping from the room below but that means the room above is cooler.
@@SkillBuilder Thank you for ur quick reply, Much appreciated. The room above is in the same condition as yours in the video. Uninhabitable so its fine :-)
Watching from Denmark. Here is the best tip you will ever hear. Try building dwellings in the U.K. with better insulation standards and materials. I lived in the U.K. from 1977 until 2003 when I returned to my homeland. Standards here are several orders of magnitude above those in the U.K. However there is a recognizable streak of masochism amongst the population in the U.K. which ensures that poorly built , poorly insulated and draughty homes will continue to be a feature of living there for decades .
"However there is a recognizable streak of masochism amongst the population in the U.K. "
Oh! how true, and every single citizen on the continent of Europe has had good cause to be glad of it on those occassions when we have ventured out from our cold hovels to risk life, limb and liberty to prize you from the iron grip of a tyrant.
Hi Roger I am hoping you might be able to help with a problem I have. During the winter I have a patch of what I think is condensation forming on my cavity wall, the walls are insulated I think with the foam pellets but I can't see any holes where they were injected. However this condensation forms at the back of the inbuilt gearbox and I am thinking that there may be a cold spot where the insulation is missing. Do you think if I drilled a hole into the cavity and used a closed cell spray foam it might solve the problem?
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54% energy rise from 1/4/22
It's one thing after another on this world now!
Wear more clothes around the house and use solar panels! That's what I do.
At least this happened at the best time of year I suppose.
Interesting vid
Turning your heat down to 1998 is the way forward..
I’ve seen people insulating under their floors on the ground floor. I was wondering what you think about that since heat rises? We have some drafts coming up through the skirting so I was thinking of just putting foam under them where the drafts are coming in.
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@@SkillBuilder that was exactly the info I needed, thank you! Your videos have taught me so much! I’ve been watching quite a few because we have just bought our first house and have loads of things to think about. We don’t have a crawl space under our suspended floor but the floor boards are in bad shape from the previous owner having a dog. I’m seriously considering pulling them up, insulating and putting new P5 down since we have everything exposed to do it now since the carpets etc have been removed.
Was this filmed in the late 90s?
Hi Can you show me how to.make a sound proof window?
Was this filmed Christmas Day, roger looks smartly dressed in this one lol
When it comes to loft insulation, I have approx 100mm, but also I've boarded out the loft, purely to make storage easier. Do the boards on top of the insulation enhance its ability to keep heat in the house or am I kidding myself and need to come up with a better solution?
The boards on top of the insulation help cut down the air flow across the surface so they do some good.
There is a diminishing return on insulation so the first 100mm is worth more.
Thank you
hi . we are fitting new radiators. is it better to fit a large rad and have it turned down or a small rad on full ?
large radiators and then run your boiler at a lower flow temperature
Seal up all the gaps around your front door and letterbox, but then create a draught point by installing a trickle vent in the uPVC windows - perfect sense.
yes the vent has a slide on it.
Filmed at bisby towers West Wing. Rodger scrubbed up a bit for the filming team👍😀😀. The smooth tone of his voice, must off practiced in the mirror for days.😂. Good job you can take a bit of banter rodge😉.
Yes I was younger and keener then and I thought I might have a career in showbiz. Now I am old and bitter and have a barely concealed tone of contempt underlying everything I say.
@@SkillBuilder 😂😂😂😂👍
Is the minimal level for loft insulation not 270 now
This is old.
This time of year you can usually compare your roof with your neighbours (all other factors being equal). If the snow or frost has melted on yours but not your neighbours then you are losing money.
I have often done that but then I find out that they have their heating on. That only happens on Christmas day and my Birthday in my house
@@SkillBuilder Alright Roger, stop boasting. On Christmas day will all huddle around the oven and on my birthday I go sit in the van to warn up.
@@petenewell9945 lol Well I tell people we have an oven to impress them but it's really a barrel that we burn our trash in.
It was so cold in our house we used to sit in front of the open door of the freezer to get warm.
@@rstmg60 A freezer in the house? Super flash. Only freezer we had was years old, broken and dumped in the front garden.
Is this recoloured black and white film footage?
Was that Roger’s brand new Commer van parked outside?
Iain
May you never grow old.
Say hello to my step ladder, my real ladder left when I was 3. Who says the the Brits have no sense of humor well done!
Thanks mate that really cheered me up! As my father walked out on us when I was 3!!!
They say that every joke ever told will upset somebody.
@@SkillBuilder 🥲
Christmas rest has done you well!
Was this transferred from a VHS recording?
Roger looks like heroes
Regards
Faruk
Jeez, I know the Government wishes us to recycle- but a video from back when we all owned video players!!!!!
Still, it’s still relevant today so all good Roger
Is it true that black radiators radiate the heat better than white ones? If so, why don't we paint them black or at least darker colours?
It is a myth. You get hardly any radiated heat from them either way
@@SkillBuilder In my physics class at school (several decades ago) I was taught that black surfaces absorb heat AND radiate it better than white ones, so maybe it's worth experimenting to see if that's true with domestic CH radiators ... but my wife won't let me try it.
Do you have storage in the attic or do you just keep cotton candy up there?
Not my house.
Why are radiators placed under windows. It seems madness all the heat going behind the curtains
Because it heats up the cold air where it occurs, avoiding a cold draft along the floor and so increases perceived comfort at a lower energy usage than would be needed otherwise. This is less true with very efficient windows.
@@smartbuildengineering 👌
@@smartbuildengineering So, if you do have radiators under windows, should you have long curtains that cover them or should you have short curtains that hang just above them?
Hello step ladder! 😂😂😂😂😂
Sorry, but "best practices" of building houses in UK are like the houses are in tropical country. Leaving s hole in the door makes all Norwegian people laugh, you will never be able to keep warmth in such a house, especially if the holes around the front door will be so huge (and no, the broomstick in the holes doesn't keep cold temperature out, sorry, dear engineers, it doesn't work like that🤣). Noone should complain about the costs of heating, beacuse the design of most houses in UK have no capacity to hold warmth, of such house was built in in Norway, people inside would be dead after one night, frozen to death, and it would be kilos of snow despite a "fluff" in the pigeon hole. You are effectively sleeping in the streets. Maybe double doors for thermos effect when you don't open 2nd door until you close the 1st, and very very very good thick no-holes door insulation may save the day, but having in mind draught even comes from the walls themselves, it's really not good technologies to keep heating costs low. Alas, if in northern eu and even in central eu countries someone built a house like that claiming it's an all year round house, he'd be fired...
Who's this young man!!
Roger is getting younger and younger 👍
Let us hope it doesn't continue.
Hang on, WTF! I think I've gone back to the seventies and I'm watching a BBC public information film.
A lot of university students use the foil taped to the back of radiators to save money.
Sensor in the top of a rad valve. What is the sensor looking for? How is it powered ? 🤷🏼♂️
Gas filled tube. It detect temperature change
Quality dad joke👌
We have an open plan staircase from the living room up to the kitchen with a radiator that sits partially in the staircase meaning half the heat meant for the living room shoots straight up into the kitchen. Poorly placed. You can feel the displaced cold air being pushed back down the staircase when the heating is on giving the effect of a draft. Bloody pain
The falling air is more dense so it is not being pushed. It is the hot air that is being pushed up by the cold air falling. In an igloo the sleep on a shelf around the edge and have a dug out in the middle where the cold air sits.
I will leave you to work out how to apply that to your open plan staircase.
@@SkillBuilder I'm going to move the radiator and fit a glass sliding door across the opening.
The thumbnail pic fooled me into thinking Sean Bean was guest hosting
Iv got a question about loft installation hope you can help
The sparks have been up there and made havoc of my loft installation and I’m just about to boarded the loft am I better off checking all the way and starting fresh or am I better off trying to lay flat make the best of it and just top it up? Thanks for your videos Wez.
Don't throw it away. It costs a lot more these days because there is no subsidy.
Just tidy it up but don't cover the cables if you can help it.
Welcome to Skill Builder Gold channel :-)
More of that old stuff still in the bin
Why are modern rad thermostats usually so loose and wobbly from new that they appear broken?
You need to select the highest setting then screw the head on. If you don't do that they will wobble.
@@SkillBuilder brill. Thanks!
Love the joke at the end 😂
Such a bad joke, but I forgive you! ;)
Thanks for the tips!
All jokes are bad that is why comedians stopped telling them and went in for observational comedy.
Going up in the world with the step ladder..
😂. 👍🏻
Hi Dan
@@SkillBuilder liking the new attire. 😉
I think this video was filmed a while ago!
It is filmed in the future
Come on Roger when was this filmed?
I don't know but I guess it was 15 years ago
buy the book Energy Saving Tips on AMZN
8mm cine film just converted to digital
Oh no Rogers in the loft - ahh danger!!
Two minutes later he falls through.....or was he pushed?
Let's do the time warp again.
That dad joke at the end
Roger gets younger every day
That was poor quality until I adjusted the tracking. 🤣🤣 Was that on VHS or Betamax?
Ha ha, got it. D.C Jim Carver! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its like a episode of through the keyhole 🤣
Christ. This is like watching Jezza on old Top Gear! Haha
Getting all those t's and h's right for the corporate gigs
Yes It is funny to play it back and hear me trying so hard.
It's those banana drinks, they're making you look younger Roger!😚🍌
Looks complicated, can't I light a fire within my house?
👍
Did they have #UA-cam in the 70's ?? .......
You can't beat those Fashion Statements EH Roger ?? ;-)
Someones been doing some high end editing 😂 and air brushing.
Time
Why does this feel like a late 90s diy show
Because it is
Your ladder was so outraged at your joke, it rung the band Steps for support. Their hotline said our thoughts are with humour during this terrible Tragedy.
Rumour has it this first appeared as a cave painting
The writing is on the wall for us all
shame about the ladder Rodger coming from a broken home must have inspired you to get into fixing them
Nice brass ....shows you’ve got a bit money 😂
Not my house
Looks like Roger spent Christmas down the health farm with Dr BOTOX.
Bestbway to reduce your bills roger is to completely block your letter box off
Youll never receive another bill again!!!
Good tip. I must remember that.
this can't be one day old video think Roger house is time machine that must be 1984 public announcment film ,
Who is that young fella
Need
If you have a chimney, get yourself a Chimella. You will save £££s on your energy bills