Energy saving window systems are an important pillar of retrofit and efficiency measures in properties. Both for the household and for industrial or commercial properties. These window systems help to keep costs low and better make use of the energy being pumped into these locations.
Today, we will go over 6 benefits of installing energy saving window systems in your properties so you can enjoy the energy cost savings and the beauty of bespoke home blinds.
What Are Energy Saving Window Systems?
Energy saving window systems are a collection of measures that improve the energy efficiency of properties. This can incorporate bespoke home blinds, secondary glazing barriers, window shutters, and other tools paired together. All of these, when combined, can significantly reduce the amount of thermal energy bleeding through the properties’ windows.
Many energy saving window systems come as secondary glazing measures, with fabric-first elements as a core component.
You can read more about secondary glazing measures in another blog post of ours, where we covered it in more detail.
How Are These Window Systems Installed?
When it comes to installation, the process can vary, but for the most part, all measures follow the same process as Flutter Shutter. Designed for social housing and as non-intrusive as regular home blinds, Flutter Shutter has a straightforward installation process.
After measurements of the property are taken, they are sent off for manufacturing, which can take between 4 and 6 weeks. Once constructed, our energy saving window system can then be installed in less than a day. Needing only a handful of screws to secure it in place to the frame, before it is ready to begin having an effect.
The Benefits of Energy Saving Window Systems
We have discussed improving EPC ratings in social housing before, but we wanted to review some of the core benefits these systems can bring to these properties. Touching on how beneficial it can be to make use of energy saving window systems, such as Flutter Shutter.
Reduction in Monthly Energy Usage
One of the most direct benefits of using energy saving window systems is reducing monthly fuel usage. In social housing, homes often have older heating systems. So any reduction in the strain on these systems can help to conserve energy usage in the home.
By improving the efficiency of a property’s windows with a low-cost measure, the amount of fuel used to keep the home warm is reduced. In turn, this reduces the amount of energy wasted and money spent on that fuel. This being achieved, all while the measure itself is no more intrusive than a pair of home blinds.
Lowered Fuel Bill Cost
With improvements to the thermal envelope, a property can also see a significant drop in annual fuel costs. Reducing the strain on aged heating systems that would otherwise need to use significantly more fuel to keep the home warm. Lowering each month’s bill while avoiding other high costs, such as replacing that old heating system.
Our own energy saving window system from Liverpool has been proven to reduce monthly property bills by up to £200. So the effectiveness of energy saving window systems is quite apparent.
Maintaining Warmth for Longer
When it comes to social housing or any property on the market, energy saving window systems can help maintain warmth for longer. Often, the cost of running a heating system for 8 hours or more per day is simply not justifiable. With an effective secondary glazing system in place, however, that need not be the case.
Not because the system can then run for all hours of the day, but because the heat it generates will stay within the home for longer. With window systems in place, the amount of thermal bleed is reduced, and thus the warmth in the home will deplete at a slower rate.
Leaving the home warmer for longer, even when the heating system is not running.
Improved Sustainability with Window Systems
On a similar topic, this makes properties with window systems more efficient. Thereby making them more sustainable in the long term.
Other properties that lack such measures will increasingly find their maintenance costs rising and, without change, may become so expensive to own that ownership becomes untenable.
Thus, implementing energy efficient window systems can help keep the property in good health for longer. Meaning it can be used for longer, and owners will not have to worry about the long-term viability of such properties.
For registered social landlords, this is doubly important, as many social housing properties are over 30 years old and in desperate need of upgrading to remain energy efficient.
Reduced Solar Glare
On the other side of the equation, effective energy saving window systems, such as Flutter Shutter, can help reduce overheating. This is reflected in the heat from the outside when the blind is closed. Keeping the interior cooler when the months get warmer.
This also helps prevent excessive sunlight from making interiors overly bright and difficult to see in, especially for those with limited vision.
Improved Thermal Regulation
Surges or rapid temperature changes can be among the deadliest weather events for the most vulnerable within families. Older pensioners, young children, and those with complications from illness can all be at risk.
With energy saving window systems in both private and social housing, the ability to regulate a home’s internal temperature is greatly improved, not only in cold weather, where they maintain heat, but also in warmer weather, as mentioned previously. Being able to control the inside of the home more consistently is a key function of such systems.
Significantly reducing the risk of tenants suffering from hypothermia or hyperthermia.
Interested In Our Energy Saving Window System from Liverpool?
With Flutter Shutter, we can arrange for your measurements to be taken and installation to be carried out promptly!
If you want to learn more about our work, you can read our sections on registered social landlords and heritage, check out our brochure, or read more in our blog area.
You can get in touch today via our contact form, by telephone on 0151 375 8300, or by email at contact@fluttershutter.org.
Our independent energy efficiency window system can help you reduce fuel costs for properties and bring sustainability to your portfolio.
