Your Homes Newcastle put 500 Radflek radiator reflectors in its tenants’ homes as part of its Energy for the Future project to improve housing in order to meet the Government’s Decent Homes standard. The project equipped tenants with both knowledge and the tools to save energy and be warmer in their homes. 

 

 

Radflek was one of several low cost, quick to fit energy saving measures used. Other products included in the project were; toilet cistern flush controllers, shower regulators, draught excluders and temperature comfort cards. 

 

 

Household bills have reduced significantly for the properties that have so far benefited from the scheme saving an average of £10- £20 per month on energy bills. 

Wall-Lag the insulation and renewable energy specialists, have been working with the Welsh Government on the arbed programme, originally launched back in 2009 to bring environmental, social and economic benefits to Wales. 

 

The arbed area-based programme looks for opportunities to provide assistance on a street-by-street or community basis rather than with individual households, through funding for energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies. 

 

Measures include: solid wall insulation, solar hot water, heat pumps, boiler upgrades and maintenance, heating controls and fuel switching. The programme follows the energy hierarchy, which means energy efficiency measures like insulation, are undertaken before renewable energy measures. Radflek radiator reflectors were installed at the end of Phase 2 of the programme, as a low cost, quick fit solution, where other measures were not suitable. Wall-Lag has fitted 1200 homes with Radflek, totalling over 2,361m2 which is the equivalent of just over quarter of the pitch at the National Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and reducing carbon emission by about 818 tonnes over the next 15 years.bills.