Energy Efficiency

Carrying out a home refurbishment provides you with an ideal opportunity to create an energy efficient home. You can insulate, ventilate and heat your home using up to date technology and there are benefits galore to choose from: whether it's saving money on fuel bills, breathing cleaner air or feeling smug about yourself for being so environmentally responsible, your home can become the most energy efficient living environment available today.

Planning departments are now under the spell of the government's Code for Sustainable Homes. This is the new national standard for sustainable design and construction of new homes and measures the sustainability of a new home using a 1 to 6 star rating system, 6 being completely carbon neutral. The Code sets minimum standards for energy and water use at each level. Following its recommendations is looked upon favorably by planners when reviewing applications.

Onis has a range of options that can help you achieve an energy efficient home. We can increase the efficiency of your home to meet the current standard or go the full nine yards and reach level 6.

Our energy efficiency experts can advise you on how best to bring the latest renewable technologies together to compliment your project requirements, design ideas and of course budget.

We will first look at the most efficient heating system available for your home, quite possibly a heat pump of some kind. Renewable technologies are also the perfect partners for under floor heating which has been proven to provide an energy saving of between 15 to 40% when compared to radiators. To further increase efficiency a heat recovery ventilation system can be installed. This continually extracts stale, moist air whilst introducing pre heated, clean, filtered fresh air. Finally a solar thermal package can provide a good percentage of your hot water requirements during the summer months saving you money for more important things like flights, sorry, trains abroad.

If you are considering energy efficiency when refurbishing your home just say the word and we will take care of it for you.