Advanced Insulation Materials Blog

Protecting your pipes from freezing is not difficult and does not have to be expensive. A little forward planning, a bit of pipe insulation and a suitable sealing tape (note NEVER cable ties) goes a long way to preventing the inconvenience that frozen pipes can cause.

There are no perfect insulation materials and so as with most things in life it is a case of ‘horses for courses’, we need to be able to be able to balance up the strengths and weaknesses of the options available to us in order to make the best choice. The purpose of this article is therefore to explain what the various Reaction to Fire tests used in the UK are, what they can and cannot tell us and how they can be applied to make better choices when it comes to pipe insulation materials.

Rising energy bills and cold winters are a growing concern for UK homeowners - but you don’t have to face them alone. With insulation grants UK schemes, you can potentially tap into government backed funding to boost your home’s thermal performance at little or no upfront cost.

When discussing our national drive to reach Net Zero by 2050, a large amount of our bandwidth is taken up with discussions concerning the switch to electric vehicles and deployment of heat pumps. I asked Chris whether we should be broadening the conversation to other solutions. “Absolutely!” Chris said “Thermal insulation of pipework could and should be playing a key role in our national decarbonisation plans. However, thermal insulation is often no more than an afterthought.”