Window & Door Energy Efficiency

19 October 2022

Is your home winter ready? Preparing your home for winter by making sure your windows and doors are as energy efficient as possible will certainly save you money on your energy bill. With energy costs as they are at the moment, I'm sure everyone is making efforts to make their homes more energy efficient to keep costs down.

There are various ways you can do this. Below are some recommendations of products that can help reduce draughts and in turn make windows and doors more thermally efficient.

RETRO-FIT DRAUGHT SEALS

Retrofit Draught Sealing products will help you eliminate those draughty areas around your windows and doors, keeping your home warm and dry during the cold winter months.

Each product is specifically designed for the correct application and can be fitted onto new or existing windows & doors in a choice of finishes from Aluminium to Black, Brown, White, or Gold. Easy to fit and competitively priced, our draught seals will give your home an instant improvement on those draughty areas while minimising dust and noise all year round.

We stock a wide choice of draught seals to improve your home including; Exitex products such as Rain Deflectors, Brush Strips, and P Strip Self Adhesive Rubber.

FOAM WEATHER SEALS

High-quality Foam Weatherseals and weather strips will help draughtproof your windows and doors. We stock the two leading brands on the market, Foamteq & Schlegel. The open-cell foam technology of Foamteq offers excellent memory and compression qualities so you can be sure this seal will return to its original shape and size. Foamteq comes with a lifetime guarantee and is impervious to paints and stains due to the protective liner, which can be wiped clean easily. With many profiles within its range, Foamteq is the favourite choice of many joineries in the UK.

The Aquamac 21 & 63 draught seals from Schlegel are the leading weather seal on the market, with millions of metres sold every year. With excellent compression, that returns to its original shape, no shrinking, and a lifetime guarantee, it's the perfect solution when sealing timber windows and doors.

TPE & BUBBLE SEALS

Weatherproof your home with our range of TPE & Bubble Weatherseals that have been intricately designed to significantly reduce draughts in your home, keeping it warm and dry.

Our wide range of weather seals for timber windows and doors are perfect for when you require performance without compromise. These high-performance seals have excellent memory properties, along with a low closing force, and are used extensively throughout the UK and Europe. Our Weather seals are available in White, Brown, or Black and a range of sizes & lengths.

We stock the leading brands on the market including Deventer and Trelleborg.​

DOOR THRESHOLDS

Our door thresholds are suitable for both inward or outward Single and French Doors. Manufactured from Aluminium with high-performance weather seals, this range of door thresholds will help protect your home effectively from wind, rain, and cold all year round. We offer a range that will comply with Document Part M (Access to and use of buildings) ensuring that your home also complies with building regulations. Within the range, some thresholds are thermally broken ensuring that your home is protected not only from the cold but also from condensation that forms during cold weather.

As part of this range, we stock Door Thresholds, Drop Down Seals, Replacement Seals & Waterbars; our products are available in a range of sizes from 1m up to 3m and finishes including Aluminium, Black, Brown, Gold & White.​

Glazing replacent or repair

If you're looking to replace the glazing on your timber windows and doors or perhaps resealing the glazed units, our range of putties and glazing beads will ensure the job is done correctly. Replacing window putty can certainly help reduce draughts on your windows. Alternatively you could replace damaged putty by using our Qwood replacement glazing beads. Used with our security glazing tapes, these beads will not only improve the energy efficiency of your windows, they'll also improve secrurity.

Please get in contact if you have any questions related to the products mentioned in this post.