How To REDUCE Heat Loss In Your Home: 5 SIMPLE DIY Changes [2023] - FLIR Thermal Camera
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2021
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Heat loss is where heat escapes from inside the building to outside, typically through the roof, walls, windows and floor. Knowing the heat loss helps determining the most efficient heating system and ensuring that your property is adequately heated. Check out the video to find out 5 ways which homes commonly lose heat and 5 simple ways to reduce heat loss in your home.
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5 ways to reduce heat loss in your home 🏡:
1. To reduce heat loss through your windows - draw your curtains on an evening when the sun goes down. And best of all it’s FREE!
2. To reduce heat loss around your door - draught excluding adhesive seal can be installed around the door frame like this below:
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3. If there are unused or unheated rooms in the house it is important to keep the doors closed and again will cost you NOTHING to do. You can turn off the heating in unused rooms with a smart thermostat like this one from Tado or Nest:
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With Tado smart thermostats:
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4. To reduce the heat loss up, up and away through your unused fireplace or chimney you can make a DIY draught excluder or purchase something like this (but please ensure it is removed before any fires are lit):
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5. To reduce the heat loss from your hot water pipes and tank you can install pipe insulation and a water tank jacket, both which are easy to install yourself.
Pipe insulation:
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Hot water tank jacket:
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Just borrowed an IR camera (from Cambridge Carbon Footprint) and discovered just how good 1900s solid brick walls are at losing heat! External wall insulation looks the way to go!
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It's mad how badly built our houses are 😔
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Awesome info! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you !
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I also did another video with a similar theme here which may be of interest ua-cam.com/video/tJ2JtxTrouE/v-deo.html
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excellent video
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THE DIY draft excluder that you made. You are forcing more heat out into the room instead of going up the chimney Sir ?? The hot water tank insulation you used is 4 layers that cover the tank ?? HOW much did you save with your upgrade that you showed Sir ?? Thanks fella. I will start on my place this week.
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It stops warm air escaping up and out the chimney as seen with the thermal imaging camera. It's still quite a cold room but it appears to be helping.
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Would you please answer the question I have asked Sir ?? Thanks@@everythinghome
My wife is always feel cold and this is very helpful!
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When was your house built? It may be worth checking this out too:
www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes-grant-scheme#what-the-voucher-can-be-used-for
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My wife is the same. I started researching the matter and it turns out most women have no soul. That "cold" they feel is just "evil"
#Trust the science
Good idea to air the house and beds if there's less damp moisture in the house the warmer it feels and the cheaper to heat or get dehumidifier.
Could you do a video showing how quickly the heat leaves a room from an open door? For example, warm your living room up and then open the door and film how quickly it empties out, from inside and outside of the room. Ive been trying to find a video of it but no luck so far. Would be helpful to prove a point about keeping doors closed.
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I don't have the FLIR camera anymore. I think trying to objectively measure that may be difficult but certainly from looking at the data on my Tado thermostats it seems to help maintain the temperatures in heated rooms.
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@@everythinghome ok thanks for replying. Not to worry then, ill keep searching. Ill just have to keep reminding people to close the door haha!
No problem. Haha yes, often takes some reminding with family members here too, mainly the kids!
I find you don't loose much heat having a window open a bit as long as the door to the room is shut I was using an electric fan heater with thermostat and there was little difference air doesn't seem to move that much smoke in a kitchen shows you that, a couple of curtains across a doorway help stop heat loss.
A little late, but the answer to your query depends on the temperature difference and air flow. It’s not like residential room air moves as sudden as a gas leak (or it shouldn’t be) so depending on that, the process could take minutes or even hours.
You’d be FAR better off marking a dozen test spots on a wall surrounding the room, taking a base reading from each test spot using a handheld thermometer, then opening the door and measuring those spots every 10 minutes.
I have/use a FLIR One and it’s just going to recalibrate, you’d need to be tracking test spots anyways.
Edit: Thermal cameras look at surface temperature, so this furthers my point so unless you have a thick wall of air moving (like steam for example), the camera isn’t going to pick that up.
Good video… I’m really looking for somebody who has heat loss where the walls meet the ceiling, and what to do about it.
Thanks, in which case this video may be helpful ua-cam.com/video/MQAVta6FCKU/v-deo.html
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What about the floor? Is yours insulated? Concrete or timber?
It's a good question. Our house is around 20 years old and the EPC suggests solid floor, limited insulation (assumed).
What is the name of the thermal image camera also is it for android smartphones also is it possible to send the photos to a email address and how long does it take to charge and also what is the duration of the charge I. E minutes or hours and what is the running time please. Also is there a hiring charge please.
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It's a FLIR thermal camera as seen here #ad:
Want to get your own FLIR thermal imaging camera?:
UK: Android: amzn.to/3Gu6EZv (Amazon)
UK: iOS: amzn.to/3ZAmyur (Amazon)
US: Android: amzn.to/3QoFuId (Amazon)
US: iOS: amzn.to/3Ix88ov (Amazon)
You can share photos so I suspect if you share the image via email you should be able to. It took around 30-45 mins to charge to full for me and I got around 2 hours of use from it although not all in one go. I had no problems but it isn't as good as this one: Pocket 2 here:
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If you have a chimney, get yourself a Chimella. You will save £££s on your energy bills
does this work on all phones?
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It works for both Android and iOS. You can find out more specifications in the video description.
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To expand on this a bit further for those interested, you choose whether you have a choice between Android or iPhone models. If you want to switch between phones, then you’ll need to get an adapter like USB-C (Android) to Lightning (iPhone 14 and below) or vice versa.
To clarify “all”, you’re probably not going to get this to work on anything outside of Android or iPhone (requires the FLIR app).