Don’t Put It Off! Prepare Your Home For Winter Now

Where does the time go? The kids will soon be back in school, Bake Off is about to return to our TV screens and the nights have started drawing in earlier, which can only mean that winter is just around the corner.

Many of you will look forward to cosy nights in with your nearest and dearest over the coming months, but can you say with complete certainty that your home will provide that sort of feel and atmosphere? In other words, is the property well-insulated?

If last winter felt a little chilly indoors, avoid a repeat this winter by weather-proofing the place, and do it now before it’s too late.

Put faith in the following products from Planet to warm things up…

1. Install new windows and doors

Can you feel a draught coming through one or more of your windows or doors? If so, you have identified a major contributor to the coldness you feel in your living space, and also a major contributor to those expensive energy bills.

The installation of double or triple glazed UPVC or aluminium windows and doors will banish draughts and help retain more of the heat produced by your boiler. As a result of that, you will no longer need to overly layer up and you can also expect your fuel costs to drop significantly.

2. Add a solid roof onto your conservatory or orangery

Your home extension should be one of the busiest rooms in the house in winter; somewhere you can have a Halloween Party or count down with Big Ben and friends to herald the start of a New Year. But, it won’t be if your conservatory or orangery is cripplingly cold come winter. You might also have to fix a leaking chimney with the help of a good contractor.

It’s a problem that’s easily rectified. Just replace the current roofing system with a solid tiled roof, the most thermally efficient replacement roofing system for these sorts of extensions. The roofing contractors in Pittsburgh can help with the customized roofing solutions. Custom-made to fit, it will make an enormous difference to the internal feel and you could accompany it with new energy efficient windows and doors too.

3. Examine your roofline

What on earth is roofline, other than very obviously being something to do with your roof? It collectively refers to your gutters, fascias, soffits, bargeboards and cladding, and their job is to protect your home from water damage. You will be inviting water damage to occur though if any of these parts of your roofline are obstructed by debris, leaves, mud etc. You could also check K-Style Gutters here and understand how to prevent clogging.

Ask a roofline specialist to inspect it all. You should also definitely upgrade your roofline if you have traditional timber roofline fitted as it is highly porous.

Each of the products mentioned above are available at Planet, and best of all, we can fit them all for you. The clock is ticking, so get a FREE quote on any of them now to beat winter at its own game.