Uplifting your home with a deep retrofit

If the government really wants to meet their deep retrofit target, they really need to help the homeowner to make the right decision

Improving attic insulation is a typical staged project for improving the BER on your current home. Picture: iStock

Many of us have grown up in cold draughty houses which seemed almost impossible to heat. 

We get a bill every other month or face the dreaded autumn tank fill for the coming winter. We get a wake-up call now and again when the price of oil goes up and we start thinking about how we could improve the energy efficiency of the house.