Like any energy auditor who has carried out enough assessments, there are patterns that have emerged over the years regarding issues found in houses of all ages. However, when it comes to British homes over the last three decades, there is one particular outcome that has always been the case.
Downlights are the last bastion of the old, inefficient, and ineffective, even when other low-cost, high-impact measures have been retrofitted. For example, in a house where the loft insulation is adequate, the cavity walls are filled, the new boiler is humming along with a smart thermostat sitting proudly on a wall, it’s possible to stand with a thermal camera trained on the ceiling and pick out the locations where the downlights are, by their very nature, robbing the living space of precious heat.
It really doesn’t matter how good the loft insulation is – the warm spots found by a thermal camera will always point to the recessed lighting, even when the house has been stripped back and retrofitted from top to bottom. For Downlight Covers, visit https://www.thermahooddirect.com/
Although every house is different and each energy audit brings to light unique and varied issues, the pattern of lights being the weakest link in the thermal seepage chain is one that experienced auditors no longer find surprising. Regardless of the age, shape, or construction of a house, the thermal image of ceiling lights is, without fail, always there, beckoning like a magnet, urging the auditor to lift the cover and inspect the recessed downlight at the loft access.
