The loco home Guide to Loft Insulation
Did you know that an uninsulated home loses a quarter of its heat straight through the roof? In the midst of rising energy costs, it’s an easy win.
Loft insulation is one of the easiest, cheapest, and most effective ways to slash your energy bills and make your home significantly toastier. Hear from some of our co-op members and customer about the importance of ins
How Loco Home Retrofit CIC Can Help
Navigating the world of retrofitting can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. Loco Home Retrofit CIC is a community-led co-operative dedicated to helping homeowners in Glasgow and beyond make their homes warmer and greener.
Through our Whole Home Plan service, we provide a streamlined, expert-led pathway to improving your home’s efficiency:
Whole-Home Thinking: Insulation is just one part of the puzzle. We look at your home as a complete system to ensure that when you insulate, you also maintain healthy ventilation and air quality.
Expert Advice: We help you decide whether a “warm” or “cold” loft is right for your specific property.
Vetted Professionals: We connect you with trusted, high-quality installers so you can avoid the “cowboy” contractors.
Grant Navigation: We can help you understand the funding landscape, including how to access Home Energy Scotland grants which can cover up to 75% of the cost (up to £1,500).
fund retrofit changes that save the planet
Climate change is already a threat to our buildings, many of which have significant heritage value. Stronger winds and more intense wind-driven rainfall make proper maintenance more important than ever. Weather extremes such as the 2018 heat wave and the -10C cold snap in February 2021 make home comfort harder to achieve. These problems will continue to get worse until we stop burning oil, coal and gas.
Scotland’s international commitments to achieving net zero carbon emissions demand a revolution in almost every part of our lives. Decarbonising the ways in which we heat our homes is one the hardest parts of this challenge. The lowest overall cost to taxpayer, bill payer and ‘home maintainer’ will come from a mixture of investments in both energy efficiency and renewables.
How Loco Home Helps
Loco Home is here to make the process simple. We’ll:
Assess your home’s energy performance, create a whole-home retrofit plan and connect you with trusted, PAS 2035-compliant installers.
We’re here to help you apply for available funding and track the progress
Our goal is to help you make your home warmer, greener, and cheaper to run — without the stress.
As a social enterprise applying community wealth building principles we support accelerated decarbonisation. We provide services to homeowners who want to get the best return on their investments in their properties: addressing comfort, maintenance and carbon together.
Heat Pumps: Are They Worth It?
Heat pumps: are they worth it? after one year with a Heat Pump, Loco Home member Nick Bailey Shares his experience with us and answers the big question: “Is it really worth it?” We made the move off gas just over a year ago. The combi boiler had come to the end of its life…
5 Ways Loco Home Can Help with Your Renovation Project
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Parliamentary Election Candidate Visits Loco Home to Discuss Retrofit
Parliamentary Election Candidate Visits Loco Home to Discuss Retrofit MSP Patrick Harvie visited Loco Home to discuss the future of home energy. Earlier this month, the Scottish Green Party’s candidate for Glasgow Patrick Harvie reached out for a visit. Loco Home aims to influence government policy to accelerate the response to climate change so we…
Shape The Future Of Heating In Glasgow: Join Our Focus Group!
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1870s Home Gets A Heat Pump
“It’s 19 degrees all the time now. The home is much more steady, comfortable, and cheaper. Our bills have gone down and the comfort has gone up.”
What Is Retrofit?
Retrofitting—the process of upgrading an existing building to improve how they feel and improving energy performance. When we talk about home retrofit, we mean fitting new energy efficiency measures and technology into your home, such as additional insulation, underfloor heating or a heat pump. This is to achieve better energy efficiency – which means lower…